Month: March 2014
Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company and Revolutionized an Industry Marc Benioff Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2009) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison It’s always interesting as well as instructive to…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Ken Perlman for Forbes. He discusses the very real fear of leading that many managers have, and he suggests how to get past it. To read the complete article, check…
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I have begun and then abandoned more than a dozen drafts of a commentary on what I think is the prevailing mindset of many people as the United States stumbles along, lurching into an uncertain future. I guess I lack…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Kevin Kruse for Forbes. To read the complete article, check out others, obtain subscription information, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * [NOTE: Click here…
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Data Crush: How the Information Tidal Wave is Driving New Business Opportunities Christopher Surdak AMACOM (2014) How to chart and then navigate an appropriate course during a “perfect storm” of converging demands Why did Christopher Surdak write this book? “I’ve…
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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 Sheila Talton, chief executive of…
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t Simon Sinek Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) Why our society now has a chemical imbalance and what we must do about it I agree with Simon Sinek: “Too many of…
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Marty Neumeier is the Director of Transformation for the Liquid Agency as well as author of several bestselling books in which he explains how almost anyone in almost any organization can help to achieve breakthroughs in creativity and innovation. He…
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In an article written for McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, Deryl Sturdevant (a retired Toyota executive) describes how to overcome common management challenges associated with applying lean, and reflects on the ways that Toyota continues to push the…
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Sir Ken Robinson on “How schools kill creativity”
Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…
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