Sun Tzu
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Performance Management Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2023) “Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.” Warren Bennis As you no doubt know already,…
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The Year in Tech 2022: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series) Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (October 2021) “Big Bang Disruptions”: A paradigm for all seasons This is the…
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Negotiating from the Inside Out: A Playbook for Business Success Clint Babcock Sandler Training (July 2020) How to win “the inner game of negotiation” After President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin met for several days with…
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The Art of War: A New Translation by Michael Nylan Sun Tzu W.W. Norton & Company (January 2020) A classic within western civilization has been revitalized W.W. Norton has proudly published this volume, one that, “for the first time in…
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In Think Outside the Building, Rosabeth Moss Kanter explains how advanced leaders can change the world one smart innovation at a time. Kanter introduces an especially appropriate extended metaphor: “Castles are representations of institutions…[they] are any set of institutional structures…
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Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business Paul Jarvis Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (January 2019) How and why to “start small, define growth, and keep learning” According to Paul Jarvis, “blind growth is the main…
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A 12th century French monk, Bernard of Chartres, once observed that he “stood on the shoulders of giants.” Since 1999, I have reviewed about 3,600 business books (for Amazon US, UK, and Canada) and interviewed about 650 thought leaders. Those…
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Engage to Win: A Blueprint for Success in the Engagement Economy Steve Lucas Greenleaf Book Group Press (2018) How to provide much more value to your customers and to your organization In The Art of War, Sun Tzu asserts that…
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A 12th century French monk, Bernard of Chartres, once observed that he “stood on the shoulders of giants.” Since 1999, I have reviewed about 3,400 business books (for Amazon US, UK, and Canada) and interviewed about 600 thought leaders.…
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A Covey of Quotations
Here are seven quotations, a few of which you may not have seen before. 1. “In order to have a conversation with someone, you have to reveal yourself.” James Baldwin 2. “Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can…
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