William L. McKnight
Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Tim Brown Harvard Business Review Press (2019) Even the best books about change also need to be revised and updated, and by design In A Fiery…
Read MoreThe Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Get Done Stephen Denning AMACOM (February 2018) How and why “organizations are connecting everyone and everything, everywhere, all the time” and what that means I cannot recall a…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads: 2017 Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2016) Here’s another year’s worth of management wisdom, all in one place. This is the latest volume in a series of anthologies of articles selected by the editors…
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Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently Don Yaeger W Publishing Group/An Imprint of Thomas Nelson (July 2016) “If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.” William L. McKnight (1924) However…
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Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results – Without Losing Your Soul Karin Hurt and David Dye AMACOM (2016) How to build a workforce culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive It is…
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Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead Laszlo Bock Twelve/Hatchette Book Group (2015) How to build a workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive I agree…
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The year was 1978. Jimmy Carter was President of the United States. The Bee Gees topped the charts with Stayin’ Alive. The Dallas Cowboys defeated the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl. And on July 1, The Container Store opened…
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The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work Scott Berkun Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) A good story, well-told, about an outlier’s year inside the WordPress organization First of all, this book was written by Scott Berkun who is…
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Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book Carol J. Loomis Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” Warren Buffett At last…
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“If you put fences around people, you get sheep. GIve people the room they need.” William L. McKnight
McKnight made that observation in 1924 when he was CEO of 3M. It was true then and even more true now. Brian Carney and Isaac Getz cite this assertion in Freedom, Inc. in which they explain how to free employees…
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