Month: November 2016
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Santiago Comella-Dorda, Swati Lohiya, and Gerard Speksnijder for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm,…
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Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma Charles A. O’Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman Stanford Business Books/An Imprint of Stanford University Press (2016) “Why do successful firms find it so difficult to adapt in the face of…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Nicklas Garemo, Jan Mischke, and Jonathan Woetzel for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm,…
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These were sent to me without proper attribution. You may be amused by a least a few * * * George Phillips, an elderly man from Walled Lake, Michigan, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he’d…
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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 Jeff Goodby, co-chairman and partner…
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Simply Brilliant: Powerful Techniques to Unlock Your Creativity and Spark New Ideas Bernhard Schroeder AMACOM (October 2016) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein In Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, Tom Kelley…
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Here is an edited extract from a new report that addresses issues that are, if anything, of even greater importance now than ever before. Women in the Workplace 2016 is a comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate…
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Marketing with Strategic Empathy: Inspiring Strategy with Deeper Consumer Insight Claire Brooks KoganPage Publishers (August 2016) How and why Strategic Empathy® can enrich all human relationships At least since the bazaars in the ancient world, the basic purpose of marketing…
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Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation Stephen Wunker, Jessica Whitman, and David Farber AMACOM (November 2016) Create breakthrough ideas from reimagining problems, not from an incrementally better solution to a well-understood challenge It was Clayton Christensen who…
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Great Business Advice
After the Xerox board elected Anne M. Mulcahy to serve as CEO on August 1, 2001, she sought and received advice from several people. One of them provided what she found to be the best advice, when responding to…
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