Month: June 2011
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of…
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PrimeTime Women: How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders Marti Barletta Kaplan Publishing (2006) The nature and extent of a “prime marketing opportunity” Those who have already read Marti Barletta’s Marketing to Women will welcome…
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Less Is More: How Great Companies Use Productivity Jason Jennings Portfolio/Penguin (2002) This is the second of two books by Jennings that I have recently read, the other being It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small…It’s the Fast That…
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Hit the Ground Running: A Manual for New Leaders Jason Jennings Portfolio/Penguin (2009) Through a rigorous process of identification, consideration, evaluation, and elimination best explained in the book, Jason Jennings and his research associates selected nine exemplar companies and their…
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Think Big, Act Small: How America’s Best Performing Companies Keep the Start-up Spirit Alive Jason Jennings Portfolio/Penguin (2005) As I read this volume, I was reminded of at least some of the material in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War…
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It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small…It’s the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business Jason Jennings & Laurence HaughtonHarperBusiness (2001) Speed Plus Torque = Victory! In the Prologue, Jennings…
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Thomas J. DeLong is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice in the Organizational Behavior area at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the Harvard Faculty, DeLong was Chief Development Officer and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Group, Inc., where he was responsible for the…
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The Executive’s Compass: Business and the Good Society James O’Toole Oxford University Press (1995) “The Great Conversation Across the Centuries” More than 50 years ago, Walter Paepcke founded the Aspen Institute and entrusted to Mortimer Adler the responsibility for devising…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Elizabeth Harrin (London) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. “Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and…
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Praise as Much as You Criticize
Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Human performance is inconsistent—even world-class athletes have off days. Yet, most managers focus…
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