Month: May 2017
The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World Walter Kiechel III Harvard Business Press (2010) A unique aristocracy of iconoclasts Kiechel suggests that understanding what he calls the “strategy revolution” requires getting beyond three common…
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In some ways, our relationships with other people resemble plants in that they require ongoing nourishment or they will die from neglect. Doug Conant and Mette Norgaard are the co-authors of TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an article by Gary Marcus for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Gérard DuBois * * * Science has a…
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Freeman Hrabowski III (president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County) in “The Corner Office”
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 Freeman Hrabowski III, president of…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an interview of David McCullough by Diane Tedeschi that appears in Air & Space magazine. The Pulitzer Prize winner tells the human story behind the invention of the airplane. To read the complete interview,…
Read MoreThinkers50 Management: Cutting-Edge Thinking to Engage and Motivate Your Employees for Success Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) Which concepts are the central focus of today’s cutting age thinking about management? This is one of the volumes in…
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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 Autumn Manning, chief executive of…
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When Anne Mulcahy was selected by the Xerox board of directors in 2001 to serve as the company’s new president and CEO, she contacted a number of people requesting advice as she began to assume her new duties. When facing…
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As you may not already know….
According to several sources I checked out, almost four million men and women have thus far died or been wounded in combat while serving in the U.S. military. The American Civil War (1861-1865) remains the deadliest (750,000) followed by World…
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