Month: November 2016
HBR’s 10 Must Reads: 2017 Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2016) Here’s another year’s worth of management wisdom, all in one place. This is the latest volume in a series of anthologies of articles selected by the editors…
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Bill Bryson is one of my favorite writers. Here is a brief excerpt from Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (1998). “When a celebration was deemed in order, the Puritans were…
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In Lincoln on Leadership for Today: Abraham Lincoln’s Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues, to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (February 2017), Donald Phillips observes: “Abraham Lincoln was a technology geek. He was fascinated with all kinds of new gadgets and…
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The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How to “raise the odds of working successfully and responsibly in the exciting, uncertain, recombiant, market-driven world around us” I read this book…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrew Ng 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 alerts,…
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People First Leadership: How the Best Leaders Use Culture and Emotion to Drive Unprecedented Results Eduardo P. Braun McGraw Hill Education (October 2016) How and why a leader is anyone who wishes to change reality, transform it, and make it…
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Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses Joe Pulizzi McGraw Hill Education (2015) How content marketing can help to create or increase demand for whatever you then offer to a market that…
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In an article published by FastCompany magazine in 2013, execs and investors from Pandora, IDEO, Andreessen Horowitz, SoundCloud, and Kleiner Perkins, among other masters of disruption, share the wisdom they’ve gathered on the way to the top. Here is a…
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Simon Horton is one of the world’s leading negotiation skills trainers, having taught hostage negotiators, senior purchasing officers for some of the largest global manufacturing companies, and solicitors at the most prestigious law firms in the world. He is a…
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Arnold Bennett on “the future is up to us”
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English writer and best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film. He was a thoughtful and sensitive observer of what is often referred to as…
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