Month: August 2014
Here is another brief, remarkably thoughtful article written by Marshall Goldsmith for Talent Management magazine. He suggests and I agree that mentors — and especially supervisors — should ask questions that probe for understanding to create a more insightful dialogue.…
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Based on everything I have experienced, observed, and learned over the years, here’s what I think a healthy company looks like: o First-Person Plural Pronouns: Everyone thinks in terms of “serving our customers,” “what we can accomplish working together, ”…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Juliana Schroeder and Jane Risen for The New York Times. Its core thesis is brilliant but simple, as you will soon realize. Today, when there are so many conflicts — sometimes…
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Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York, published by St. Martin’s Press (2013) is one of the best books I have read in several years. He and his camera have roamed the five boroughs of New York and dozens of his…
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Here is a brief excerpt from Katie Bolick’s superb interview of Joseph Epstein for The Atlantic, dated June 30, 1999. It happened once that GQ magazine was to photograph the editor and writer Joseph Epstein in his classroom at Northwestern…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They recommend and explain five simple exercises can help executives to recognize, and start to shift, the mind-sets…
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Olivier Philip Ziegler MacLehose Press (2013) A comprehensive biography of a magnificent performer who was large, who contained multitudes Prior to reading Philip Ziegler’s biography, what I knew about Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) was limited almost entirely to seeing several of…
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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 Paula Long, chief executive of…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Micio Kaku for the Wall Street Journal in which he shares his thoughts about the fact that we have learned more about the thinking brain in the last 10-15 years than in…
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An unlikely role model for those who aspire to be an engaged supervisor in business
In The Explorer Gene, Tom Cheshire explains how three generations of the Piccard family went higher, deeper, and further than anyone else had ever done before. Auguste Piccard was the patriarch. At one point, he accepted a position at the…
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