Month: June 2013
Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology Bob Lord and Ray Velez John Wiley & Sons (2013) “The villain throughout this book is the silo.” Increasingly and more extensively, successful brands are using technology to create memorable…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Brad Stone for Bloomberg Businessweek. He discusses Google[X], home to the self-driving car and Google Glass, the search giant’s factory for scientific bets that require generous amounts of capital and…
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12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance Brian Tracy and Peter Chee McGraw-Hill (2013) No so much “disciplines” as they are dimensions of a mindset The last time I checked, Amazon US sells 45,249 books that…
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Here is an especially valuable blog post by Charles H. Green at the Trusted Adviser Associates LLC website. To check out all the resources and learn more about him as well as the firm, please click here. * * *…
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HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across HBR Editors and Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why to manage up to nourish and manage across to connect extensively within and beyond the given enterprise This is one…
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In a recent post, Randy Mayeux of First Friday Book Synopsis shared his list of what he identifies as his “12 Vital Signs of Organizational Health.” To read that post, please click here. Randy got me thinking about organizational health and I decided to share my…
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The workplace environment may change but human nature doesn’t. Here is a brief excerpt from an article that appeared a few years ago in The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, but one whose key insights remain even more…
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Results-Based Leadership: How Leaders Build the Business and Improve the Bottom Line Dave Ulrich, Jack Zenger, and Norman Smallwood Harvard Business Review Press (1999) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison This book was first published in 1999 and as…
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The Graduation Advice We Wish We’d Been Given
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gretchen Gavett for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…
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