Month: January 2013
Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance Boris Groysberg Princeton University Press (2010) How and why the productivity of some people “massively outstrips that of their colleagues” I cannot recall a prior time in U.S. business…
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Todd L. Pittinsky is Professor of Technology and Society at SUNY Stony Brook and a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He was previously Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he served…
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As revealed in The Best of Business, a book published by The Economist in collaboration with Pegasus Books in 2009, William Gibbs (1790-1875) became an exceptionally wealthy man by selling guano, seabird dung, that is rich in nitrates and phosphates,…
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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 G. J. Hart, the executive…
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Win with Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data Jean-Paul Isson and Jesse Harriott John Wiley & Sons (2012) How to leverage business analytics to create value for everyone involved in the given enterprise Most of what I…
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In an article that first appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 1993, Peter Drucker identified what he characterized as “the five deadly business sins.” They are: 1. The worship of high profit margins and of “premium pricing” that always…
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Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In Mark Goulston and John Ullman AMACOM (2013) “Letting the other chap have it your way.” One evening long ago while I was in Washington, a friend there invited me to…
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In DRiVE, Daniel Pink reveals what he characterizes as “the surprising truth about what motivates us.” For example, he examines “the mismatch between what science knows and what business does. The gap is wide. Its existence is alarming. And though…
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John Linkner on “4 Big Reasons Why Your Resolutions Will Fail”
Here is Josh Linkner‘s most recent blog post and one of his very best. During this holiday season as another New Year begins, many of us make resolutions with the high hopes and great expectations. This year, I resolved not…
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