Month: May 2012
Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Carl Bass, president and chief executive of Autodesk Inc. ,…
Read More
Internationally recognized workplace experts Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton are partners in the consulting firm The Culture Works. Adrian Gostick is the author of several best-selling books on corporate culture, including the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers The Carrot Principle and All In. His research has been called a “must read for…
Read More
Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. It was co-authored by Joanna Barsh and Lareina Yee. Granted, this article appeared in 2008 but what it reveals and explains is, if anything, even more relevant…
Read More
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Vijay (“VG”) Govindarajan for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * …
Read More
The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God David J. Linden The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2007) A lively explanation of the beneficial neural functions in that “cobbled-together mess” between our ears The mind is what the brain…
Read More
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dorie Clark for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * What…
Read More
Here is a brief excerpt from an article featured online by Business Insider. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for a free subscription, please click here. * * * Benjamin Franklin was a man…
Read More
TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest Moments Douglas Conant and Mette Norgaard Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) How to prepare for and then embrace the privilege of being of meaningful service to others This volume endorses the principles of servant…
Read More
Here is a brief excerpt from an especially thought-provoking and informative article written by Ginny Whitelaw and featured online by Fast Company magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * …
Read More
Michael Marquardt and Roland Yeo on “Systems Thinking and Breakthrough Problem Solving”
In his most recent book, Breakthrough Problem Solving with Action Learning, co-authored with Roland Yeo and published by Stanford University Press, Michael Marquardt develops in much greater depth core concepts that he explored in previously published books. One of them, action learning, was introduced almost 75 years…
Share this:
Like this: