Month: September 2013
Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble St. Martin’s Press (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison According to Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, “The most important message in Beyond the…
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Here’s a brief excerpt from a report on the results of another McKinsey Global Survey that — according to Brad Brown, Johnson Sikes, and Paul Willmott — indicate that CEOs and other senior executives are increasingly engaged as their companies…
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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 Rakesh Kapoor, chief executive of…
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Here is an excerpt from an extended interview of Tim Cook by Sam Grobart for Bloomberg Businessweek. As Grobart explains, “For this week’s cover story on Apple (AAPL) and its future, I spent some time with Tim Cook, who said…
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Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business Bruce Poon Tip BusinessPlus (2013) How and why core values and shared purpose can help any social enterprise to achieve sustainable profitability The most popular career advice includes the suggestion…
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Here’s a brief article by Tim Brown for LinkedIn Today. To check out a wealth of other superb articles, please click here. * * * “In our experience, everyone is the creative type.” So true. The quote comes from Creative…
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However different these ten women may be in most respects, all of them share this in common: They had or continue to have a great impact on the quality of life and the standard of living for everyone in the…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Tina Rozenberg for The Atlantic in which she suggests that Malcolm Gladwell‘s latest gospel of success further romanticizes the Davids of the world and underrates the Goliaths. To read the complete article,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Hess 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,…
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What? More terrific quotations? You betcha!
I am an incurable collector of quotations and now share another group, most of which are new to me. o “I can’t recall a time that was as volatile, complex, ambiguous, and tumultuous. As one successful executive put it, ‘If…
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