Month: February 2017
Tamra Chandler is a bona fide people maven. This means she’s someone who has spent the majority of her career thinking about people, researching how they’re motivated, and developing new and effective ways for organizations to achieve the ultimate win-win:…
Read MoreIn Extreme Teams, Robert Bruce Shaw explains “why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and other cutting-edge companies succeed where most fail.” They create a workplace culture within which great teams are most likely to thrive. Shaw suggests takeaways for each chapter. These…
Read MoreAdam 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 Cedric Bru , the C.E.O.…
Read MoreClaire Brooks is President and Managing Director of ModelPeople Inc.,a global consultancy offering branding insights and strategic solutions to international clients in categories as diverse as food, fashion and cars. Her global consulting firm developed the Strategic Empathy® framework and…
Read MoreRiding Shotgun: The Role of the COO Nathaniel Bennett and Stephen Miles Stanford University Press (January 2017) Why the COO is probably “the toughest job in a company” The is the updated edition of a book first published a decade…
Read MoreIn Extreme Teams, Robert Bruce Shaw explains “why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and other cutting-edge companies succeed where most fail.” They create a workplace culture within which great teams are most likely to thrive. Shaw suggests takeaways for each chapter. These…
Read MoreIn the Foreword to the revised and updated edition of Frans Johansson’s classic, The Medici Effect, Teresa Amiable discusses the concept of “intersectional creativity,” a process of collaboration that is ecumenical, multidisciplinary, multifunctional, and most important of all, open. Throughout…
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The case for digital reinvention
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Jacques Bughin, Laura LaBerge, and Anette Mellbye for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They explain how and why digital technology, despite its seeming ubiquity, has only begun…
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