Month: February 2015
Seven Disciplines of a Leader: How to Help Your People, Team, and Organization Achieve Maximum Effectiveness Jeff Wolf with Ken Shelton John Wiley & Sons (2015) How and why some leaders have high-impact and so many others don’t Another book…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from a “classic” article written by Sven Smit, Caroline M. Thompson, and S. Patrick Viguerie for the McKinsey Quarterly (2005), published by McKinsey & Company. They discuss an enduring reality: The largest corporations rarely sustain…
Read MoreIn Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now, Bernhard Schroeder introduces what he characterizes as the Lean Model Framework. As he explains, “”instead of spending months writing a business plan and then looking for investors, who…
Read MoreBetween Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans Malcolm Gaskill Basic Books/A Member of the Perseus Book Group (2014) A unique process of natural selection in the New World that led to independence from the Old World It is probably…
Read MoreDick and Emily Axelrod come from a long line of entrepreneurs. So it was no surprise when in 1981 Dick left General Foods to form The Axelrod Group. At the time Emily was studying to get her second masters degree,…
Read MoreFail Fast or Win Big: The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now Bernhard Schroeder AMACOM (2015) How and why the LeanModel Framework can be “a rocket ship for entrepreneurs” As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of…
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Geena Davis on “Addressing unconscious bias”
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Geena Davis for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. Does lopsided male representation in media skew our perceptions? Geena Davis believes it does and that corporations have a…
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