Month: April 2015
Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas Jeremy Gutsche Crown Business (2015) How to convert almost any workplace into a “hunting ground” for breakthrough ideas In his latest book, Hunting in a Farmer’s World: Celebrating the Mind of…
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Here is a brief interview that Amazon conducted with Josh Linkner, author of The Road to Reinvention, published by Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint. In his latest book, he explains how to drive disruption and accelerate organizational transformation. That is, take what…
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Disrupting Digital Business: Create an Authentic Experience in the Peer-to-Peer Economy R “Ray” Wang Harvard Business Review Press (2015) How to establish and then sustain a decisive advantage over competitors with a disruptive business model By way of background, “disruptive…
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As Patrick J. Coby explains in Thomas Cromwell: Machiavellian Statecraft and the English Reformation (published by Lexington Books), Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540) was the chief architect of the English Reformation and served as minister of Henry VIII from 1531 to 1540,…
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Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others Cheryl Bachelder Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2015) “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller In Jason Jennings’ latest book, The High-Speed Company, he draws upon 11,000 interviews of…
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If you want to put some white caps on your gray matter, look no further. Almost four million people watch a TED Talk each day. They have rated these as the ten most “jaw-dropping”: Hugh Herr: The new bionics that…
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Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us Kabir Sehgal Grand Central Publishing/Hatchette Book Group (2015) A brilliant survey of the neuroscience of financial transactions throughout history Kabir Sehgal is not a neuroscientist nor am…
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David Brooks on why stumblers are the people we should want to be
Here is a brief excerpt from an especially thoughtful article written by David Brooks for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Commencement speakers…
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