Month: March 2015
Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Catherine Courage by Hugo Sarrazin and Hyo Yeon for the McKinsey Quarterly (February 2015), published by McKinsey & Company. Catherine Courage champions user-centered design—not only for the benefit of the software…
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Leading from the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch McGraw-Hill (2006) Valuable lessons for men as well as women that can help accelerate personal growth and professional development Long ago, I realized that most limits…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian for Newsweek magazine. What’s interesting is that the rules are all about people: doing what they can to remove anything in the way of letting people shine.…
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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 Lew Cirne, chief executive of…
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Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of Graphic Design for Creative Success Denise Bosler HOW Books (23015) How and why the best design is “barely noticeable because it works seamlessly into its environment and for its audience” Some human…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Mike Myatt for Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Over the years, I’ve observed just about every…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tom Davenport for Deloitte University Press (August 6, 2014). According to Tom, ten types of innovation can be driven, supported, or measured with analytics. If you’re not using analytics for all…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sarah Fister Gale for Talent Management magazine. She explains why adoption of predictive analytics in talent management has been slow, but a few companies have shown how it can positively influence…
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In recent years, I have just read and reviewed several dozen books that share breakthrough revelations in research on one or more dimension of neuroscience. Most recently, I read and will soon review Michael Gazzaniga‘s latest book, Tales from Both…
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Valuable Lessons to Be Learned from Cass Sunsein and Reid Hastie
In one of Tom Davenport’s recent books, Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right, he and co-author Brooke Manville offer “an antidote for the Great Man theory of decision making and organizational performance”:…
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