Month: June 2012
Do Nothing! How to Stop Overmanaging and Become a Great Leader J. Keith Murnighan Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2012) How to lead more effectively by doing less and helping others to do more…and do it better The title of this book attracts attention but is misleading.…
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Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic Napoleon Hill, with an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone Publishing Ltd. (2009) The “Supreme Secret” of success: “Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve.” Those who have read one…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind 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. * *…
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Contrary to any rumors you may have heard, Father’s Day was not Grorge Washongton’s idea, nor invented by Hallmark Cards. * * * Father’s Day was founded in Spokane, Washington in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in…
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Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success Ken Segall Portfolio/Penguin (2012) “I would give my life for simplicity on the other side of complexity.” Oliver Wendell Holmes As Hannibal Lector explains to Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, the Roman emperor…
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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 Shawn H. Wilson, president of Usher’s New Look Foundation which offers…
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Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why organizational conversation can – and should – be a new source of organizational power The results…
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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. * * * Every company wants to grow. But growth often brings some hiccups, especially…
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In an interview conducted by Brian Bolduc , featured in the Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011), the award-winning historian, David McCullough, says textbooks have become “so politically correct as to be comic.” Meanwhile, the likes of Thomas Edison get little attention.…
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The people problem in talent management
Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article featured by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. It was co-authored by Matthew Guthridge, Asmus B. Komm, and Emily Lawson. Granted, this article appeared several years ago but what it reveals and explains is, if anything, even more relevant — and more…
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