Month: May 2015
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Roger L. Martin 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 HBR email…
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Dissent: The History of an American Idea Ralph Young New York University Press (2015) “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” Edmund Burke On occasion, I read two or more books…
Read MoreIn his career as an organizational consultant, relationship counselor, and hostage-negotiation trainer, Mark Goulston has found what works, consistently, to reach all kinds of people in any type of situation. In his book Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain…
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Here is an excerpt from Amy Whyte’s interview of Lantern’s Anne Devereux-Mills for Diversity Executive, published by MediaTec, also the publisher of Talent Management and Chief Learning Officer magazines. Women, on average, are more prone to stress. Lantern’s Anne Devereux-Mills…
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art Sue Roe Penguin Press (2-15) A lively story of unknown artists with “closely overlapping lives” who have since become household names Many years ago, there was a CBS Radio series…
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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 Joel Peterson, chairman of JetBlue…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Jeff Wolf for AMACOM’s amanet.org Playbook. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sing up for email alerts, please click here. * * * Businesspeople learn early in…
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Here’s a brief video of tigers playing in a pool for the first time after being rescued from cages. Looks like great fun to me! Have a look. Caption: Photo credit: Screenshot from video of Lily and Carli, the two…
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How to Cope with Four Great Disruptive Forces
In No Ordinary Disruption Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel explain how to cope with “four global forces breaking all the trends”: emerging growth markets (including cities) as the new gravitational centers of economic activity, increasingly faster pace of…
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