Month: September 2016
Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success Stan Beecham McGraw-Hill (September 2016) If the mind is what the brain does, this is how and why it controls the body In the title of…
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Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang The MIT Press (August 2016) An insightful discussion of the evolving nature and probable impact of Big Data Decisions that concern Big Data do…
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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 Ben Chestnut, C.E.O. of MailChimp,…
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Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate With Your Visual Mind Dan Roam Portfolio/Penguin (September 2016) “Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he…
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During an interview by Sean Blanda of Intuit’s Suzanne Pelican for 99U within the Bēhance network of websites, she explains why designers need to (sometimes) take a back seat to their developers. To check out the complete interview and other…
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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 Lloyd Carney, C.E.O. of Brocade,…
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The Etiquette Edge: Modern Manners for Business Success Beverly Langford AMACOM (August 2016) Why we must “treat everyone in a manner that values everyone and denigrates no one” Incivility in the workplace and elsewhere in our society (notably in schools)…
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7 Secrets of Persuasion: Leading-Edge Neuromarketing Techniques to Influence Anyone James C. Crimmins Career Press (September 2016) “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, and they will forget what you do, but they will never forget how you…
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Clay Christensen on how to replace the “tired paradigm” of “playing the odds” with a theory that explains “how things work.”
In Clay Christensen’s latest book, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice (published by HarperBusiness, October 2016), written with Toddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David Duncan, he asserts that “the foundation of [his and his collaborators’] thinking…
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