Month: February 2016
Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi with Art Kleiner Harvard Business Review Press (2016) How and why getting strategy and execution in cohesive alignment “is a worthwhile legacy for any leader…
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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 Liz Pearce, chief executive of…
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Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity David A. Livermore AMACOM (2016) Why most differences can be bridges rather than barriers …if you allow them to be In this exceptionally thoughtful and thought-provoking book, David Livermore addresses…
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In his latest, recently published book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, Sydney Finkelstein explores “the characteristic behaviors of the world’s most effective bosses, upending conventional best practices and presenting a new, comprehensive paradigm for developing talent.…
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I have recently read and will soon review a book, Christine L. Borgman’s Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World (MIT Press 2015), that increased substantially my understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of data in various…
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World Adam M. Grant Viking/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (2016) How and why originality starts with creative thinking, is driven by a vision, and can eventually have global impact Adam Grant wants to “debunk…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Carolyn Gregoire for The Huffington Post. To read the complete article, learn more about The Post, check out other articles, and sign up for free email alerts, please click here. Illustration…
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Agile Talent: How to Source and Manage Outside Experts Jon Younger and Norm Smallwood Harvard Business Review Press (2016) How all manner of companies gain competitive advantage with new and better ways of managing talent All organizations need effective leadership…
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How small shifts in leadership can transform your team dynamic
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Caroline Webb for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information, and register…
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