Month: September 2012
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 public speaking expert will tell you to get to know…
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In “The Bell Curve,” an article written for The New Yorker (December 6, 2004), Atul Gawande uses the term “positive deviant” to describe unusually effective performers in the field of medicine. In fact, there are outliers in all fields. To Gawande,…
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Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a Managing Principal at InnovationPoint, where he works with organizations including Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, Medtronic, Disney, Philips, PepsiCo, and numerous other global firms. Soren previously led the internal strategy and innovation group at…
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Here’s a brief excerpt from MG Siegler‘s article featured at the TechCrunch website. To read the complete article and check out all the other resources, please click here. The opening dialogue of Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film, The Prestige: Every…
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Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions Into Great Performance Rodger Dean Duncan Maxwell Stone Publishing (2012) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Frankly, I did not know quite what to expect as I began to read this book.…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Anthony 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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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Greg McKeown 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…
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Managing Henry Mintzberg Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2009) A brilliant explanation of “the practice of management”Whenever I ask someone, “What does a manager manage that is most important?”, some respond people, others work to be done, and still others resources. Thus far,…
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Still another baker’s dozen of memorable quotations
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan “The one…
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