Month: December 2014
For many years, it has been both my privilege and pleasure to serve on several committees that select the best business books of the given calendar year. This year, Walter Isaacson’s The Innovators is among my selections. You may be…
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Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior Richard O’Connor Hudson Street Press/Penguin Group (2014) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle I came across Aristotle’s…
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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 Alastair Mitchell, the chief executive…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by John H. Cox for Training magazine, a 50-year-old professional development magazine that advocates training and workforce development as a business tool. The magazine delves into management issues such as leadership and…
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Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company’s Deep Smarts Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swap, and Gavin Barton Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to locate, obtain or develop, assimilate, manage, and leverage your organization’s “Deep Smarts” Dorothy Leonard is among…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive…
Read MoreKarl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is a cofound VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells Butterfly…
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You know the type. Like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, hops from one subject to the next, one task to the next. Overwhelmed by decisions: Too many choices, not enough time, etc. Overextended by work: Too much to…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Lisa Bodell for strategy+business, published by strategy&, formerly Booz & Company. She challenges conventional wisdom as to how and where the most promising ideas are generated. To read the complete article,…
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Thomas L. Friedman on “Stampeding Black Elephants”
Over the years, I have relied on a few journalists to help me navigate my way through the forces and events that resemble a fog in everyday life, at least in mine. Tom Friedman is one of them. He is…
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