Month: December 2012
In his latest book, Denial, Richard Tedlow provides a wealth of information and insights as he examines a number of especially interesting situation throughout U.S. history. Here’s a composite excerpt: “The United States in 1900 did not have improved roads…We…
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Business Basics: Prepare Yourself, Add Customers, Cut Costs, and Eliminate Investments for You and Your Stakeholders Donald Mitchell 400 Year Project Press (2012) A cohesive, comprehensive, and cost-effective “game plan” for achieving and then sustaining peak performance Note: I read…
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Here is an excerpt from an especially interesting article that I came upon while visiting the IBM website. For more than half a century, computers have been little better than calculators with storage structures and programmable memory, a model that…
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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 Karen May, vice president for people development at Google, was conducted…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article in The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which Tim Koller, Dan Lovallo, and Zane Williams explain how risk-averse midlevel managers making routine investment decisions can shift an entire company’s…
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In this interactive presentation—one in a series of multimedia frameworks — Steve Coley, a director emeritus in McKinsey’s Chicago office, describes the three horizons framework. Based on research into how companies sustain growth, this approach illustrates how to manage for…
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Here is an article written by Erik Sherman for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here.…
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HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2012) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Derrek Bok This is one of the first volumes in a new series of anthologies of articles previously published in Harvard Business Review, in…
Read MoreGregory Unruh is a thought leader dedicated to sustainability innovation for business and the world. An Associate Professor of Sustainability at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, he is a noted writer, speaker and educator in the areas of corporate…
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All About Celebrating a New Year
For years, I have wondered about the origin of what has become an international celebration of the arrival of a new year. So I went surfing and found the material that follows, provided by Wilstar.com to which I am grateful.…
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