Month: September 2014
The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why It Matters Ulrich Boser New Harvest/Amazon & Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) “It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”…
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In an article featured in Forbes magazine (2/10/14), “Amazon Vs. Book Publishers, By The Numbers,” Jeff Bercovici cites an important article by George Packer for The New Yorker and then provides information of special interest to me concerning major trends…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an especially important article by George Packer for The New Yorker in which in which discusses whether or not Jeff Bezos and Amazon are good for the book publishing industry. Opinions are sharply divided…
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Here is a brief portion of Josh Bersin’s exclusive interview of Reid Hoffman, Chairman of LinkedIn and Author of The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please…
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As you already know, opinions are divided — sometimes sharply divided — about what is necessary to achieve success in business. According to the best sources of which I am aware, these seem to be the most important ingredients: o…
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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 Lindsey Ueberroth, chief executive of…
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I have finally gotten around to reading and will soon review Doris Kearns Goodwin‘s latest book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, and highly recommend it. Her focus is on four separate…
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I have read and reviewed Liz Wiseman’s previously published books — notably Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools — and am now reading Rookie Smarts, published by HarperBusiness (October 2014). In it,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rob Cross and Chris Ernst for Talent Management magazine. In agree with them: For companies to continuously innovate, they must first redesign how jobs are structured to discover and communicate new…
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Peter Thiel on the Power of Counterintuitive Thinking
Briefly, intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason. The word intuition comes from Latin verb intueri which is usually translated as to look inside or to contemplate. Intuition is thus often conceived as…
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