Month: September 2013
Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play Marc Ostrofsky Simon & Schuster (2013) “The new rule in business: Money doesn’t grow on trees; it grows in databases!” The title of my review…
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Quotations that have enduring meaning and significance are those that offer unique insight into human nature. That is certainly true of these. “If you inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”…
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Phil Stutz and Barry Michels are psychotherapists as well as the co-authors of The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity, published by Spiegel & Grau/Random House (2012). As Michels explains, “Twenty-five years have passed since Phil and…
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Here is the executive summary of an article co-authored by Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux that was published in Harvard Business Review and later developed into a book. To read the complete article, you must be registered to have free…
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Here is an excerpt from another brilliant essay by Maria Popova and featured by her blog for mind/heart/soul-starved explorers, Brain Pickings. Her taste is impeccable and her judgment flawless. Please check out the treasures by clicking here. * * *…
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The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success Alan S. Gregerman Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) How and why it is imperative to engage, learn from, and collaborate with strangers As I began to read this book,…
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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 Ramon Nunez, chief executive of…
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With all due respect to Sheryl Sanberg, she is only one of the latest women who have “leaned in” to achieve success in U.S. history. I highly recommend Gail Collins’ America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines,…
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As I began to read Alan Gregerman’s recently published book, The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success, I was again reminded of how deceptively complicated the word “stranger” is. It could refer to someone we…
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Malcolm Gladwell on “Complexity and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule”
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker (August 21, 2013) in which Gladwell makes a vigorous effort to clarify issues that always result from careless reading and simplistic thinking. To read…
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