Month: February 2013
The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Caig Hickman Portfolio/Penguin Group (2004) Note: I recently re-read this book while formulating questions for an interview of its co-authors and found it even more…
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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. * * * Because potential employers can research us 24/7, we’re all in…
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The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Josh Lerner Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How to combine two traditional models for innovation “within a powerful system that consistently and efficiently produces new ideas” By nature, books about innovation…
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A 2012 re-enactment of the Battle of Shiloh as captured by a pinhole camera in Michie, Tenn. Such a camera has no lens, viewfinder or shutter — just a pinhole at the front and film at the back. Images can…
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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 Terry Leahy, the former C.E.O.…
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Here is an abbreviated version of an article written by Anne Kreamer and featured in Fast Company magazine. As she explains, workplace happiness increases productivity, stimulates creativity, and makes employees more willing to take risks. She examines how some executives…
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Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance Jason Selk McGraw-Hill 2012) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford I share Jason Selk’s high regard for John Wooden, arguably the greatest…
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Here is an abbreviated version of an article written by Baratunde Thurston and featured in Fast Company magazine. As he explains, the publishing industry thinks it’s the end of days, but the world of words is a growth market. This…
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Here is a portion of the transcript from an interview of John Mackey, conducted by Rebecca Jarvis 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…
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The Skills Most Leaders Don’t Have
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Brian Evje and featured in Inc. magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo: Anthony Danielle via Flickr * * *…
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