Team of Rivals
Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior and Scientist Jennet Conant Simon & Schuster (2017) The several high-impact lives of a talented and dedicated public servant Here is a brief excerpt frpom an editorial in The New York TImes,…
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Leadership in Turbulent Times Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon & Schuster (2018) Profiles of great leadership “not in turbulent times alone, but also in our everyday lives” I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it after…
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In Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin suggests that Abraham Lincoln was an integrative thinker. Specifically, that following his election as President in 1860, Lincoln assembled a cabinet whose members included several of his strongest political opponents: Edwin M. Stanton as…
Read MoreSamuel B. Bacharach is the co-founder of the New York City based Bacharach Leadership Group (BLG) and is also the McKelvey-Grant professor in the department of organizational behavior at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Working with…
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Samuel B. Bacharach is the co-founder of the New York City based Bacharach Leadership Group (BLG) and is also the McKelvey-Grant professor in the department of organizational behavior at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Working with…
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The Thoughtful Leader: A Model of Integrative Leadership Jim Fisher Rotman/University of Toronto Press (July 2016) How and why integrative thinking is the foundation of great leadership Obviously, leaders have a great deal to think about before making decisions with…
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Integrated Thinking: The New IT Sue Pearson CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform/Amazon (2015) The potential power and impact of a new way of thinking in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous global marketplace Note: My review is of the second edition…
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Washington’s Circle: The Creation of the President David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler Random House (March 2015) How and why the creation of a new nation and of the leader it would need were not only related but interdependent.…
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Us + Them: Tapping the Positive Power of Difference Todd L. Pittinsky Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why “the power of difference” can help us to replace negative “Us-and-Them” relations with positive ones As I began to read…
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Building a Winning Political Team
Above: Ronald Reagan and his presidential-campaign chairman, William Casey, in June 1980. Ronald Reagan knew how to do it. So did Bill Clinton. Their secret? They ignored the conventional wisdom. Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by…
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