Month: July 2016
Million Dollar Maverick: Forge Your Own Path to Think Differently, Act Decisively, and Succeed Quickly Alan Weiss Bibliomotion (May 2016) How and why “simply taking a contrarian or one-off view” – and acting on it – can be the secret…
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Fix It: Getting Accountability Right Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig Hickman, Tracey Skousen, and Marcus Nicolls Portfolio/Penguin — An Imprint if Penguin Random House (2016) Channeling Hillel the Elder: “If not now, when? If not you, who?” Organizations are human…
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Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner John Wiley & Sons (May 2016) “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those…
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Hillary Clinton’s history with Republican-instigated criminal investigations has led her to be excessively defensive. Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Jeffrey Toobin for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out other material, and obtain…
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Family members, friends, and business associates frequently ask me to suggest some “great books” to read during the summer. I cannot think of four better than these, all of them written by Erik Larson: Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time,…
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The Art of Strategic Leadership: How Leaders at All Levels Prepare Themselves, Their Teams, and Organizations for the Future Steven J. Stowell and Stephanie S. Mead John Wiley & Sons (2016) “The future is already here. – it’s just not…
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Is artificial intelligence a threat?
While at work this morning, I noticed a paper clip on my desk, next to the computer terminal. And next to it was a much more advanced device, the binder clip. Curious, I visited the Staples website and learned that…
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