Month: December 2012
Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level L. David Marquet Greenleaf Book Group Press (2012) Lessons about leadership to be learned from a year aboard a nuclear-powered attack submarine I recently read this book in combination…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Guy Kawasaki, featured by Google+, in which he shares his thoughts about Matthew May’s latest book, The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything.…
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. Morris PublicAffairs (2012) How the story of U.S. business development “can be charted as an evolution from local to regional and finally national networks” What we have in this…
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Selling to China: A Guide to Doing Business in China for Small- and Medium-Sized Companies Stanley Chao iUniverse, Inc. (2012) Cutting-edge but practical advice on how small- and medium-size companies can best do business in China Almost all of the…
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Here is another in a series of videos produced by HBR during which major thought leaders discuss especially important business subjets. During this program, Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School Professor, explains how to approach innovation creatively by studying the problem…
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Cynthia A. Montgomery is the Timken Professor of Business Administration and immediate past chair of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where she’s been on the faculty for 20 years. One of her recent assignments has been working with…
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Winston Churchill loved paraprosdokians, figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected — and frequently humorous. For example: 1. Where there’s a will, I want to be in it. 2. The…
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In an interview of Betty Sue Flowers conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company, Flowers dissects the attitudes and beliefs that unconsciously influence decision makers. Here is a brief excerpt. To read the complete interview,…
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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History William Safire W.W. Norton (1997) If there is a better anthology of great speeches, I am not aware of it. The text from which its title is derived is Mark Antony’s speech…
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Where the Jobs Will (and Won’t) Be In 2013
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Susan Adams for Forbes magazine. She is its deputy leadership editor. To read the complete article, check out other resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please…
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