Month: June 2016
The Genius of Opposites: How Introverts and Extroverts Achieve Extraordinary Results Together Jennifer B. Kahnweiler Barrett-Koehler Publishers (2015) “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead As I began to read this book, I was…
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The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh Simon & Schuster (2016) Here are several “profoundly counterintuitive perspectives on how to become a better person and how to create a better…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Collaboration Harvard Business Review Editors and various contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Ancient African proverb This is one…
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People Analytics in the Era of Big Data: Changing the Way You Attract, Acquire, Develop, and Retain Talent Jean Paul Isson and Jesse Harriott John Wiley & Sons (2016) Just about everything you need to know to attract, hire, develop,…
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Beyond Competitive Advantage: How to Solve the Puzzle of Sustaining Growth While Creating Value Todd Zenger Harvard Business Review Press (June 2016) How and why better corporate theories generate better strategies “with a higher possibility of success” Long ago, Peter…
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Players: The Story of Sports and Money, and the Visionaries Who Fought to Create a Revolution Matthew Futterman Simon & Schuster (2016) Greed corrupts…and absolute greed corrupts absolutely. Long ago, I realized that the correct answer to most questions about…
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In The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, Michael J. Mauboussin rigorously examines a common mistake when making predictions: failing to recognize luck’s existence or miscalculating its influence, “and as a consequence we dwell too…
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How Performance Management Is Killing Performance — and What to Do About It M. Tamra Chandler Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2016) “Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” Peter Drucker Years…
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In People Analytics in the Era of Big Data: Changing the Way You Attract, Acquire, Develop, and Retain Talent, Jean Paul Isson and Jesse S. Harriott suggest six questions that should be asked in order to develop the most effective…
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How category design can help your company dominate its competitive marketplace
In Play Bigger (HarperBusiness, June 2016), Al Ramadan, Dave Petterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney explain how and why “pirates, dreamers, and innovators create and dominate markets.” Category design is one of the key concepts that they examine. What is it?…
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