Month: September 2018
Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals about the Future of Strategy Ming Zeng Harvard Business Review Press (September 2018) How Alibaba is “reconstructing entire industries with almost every business, be it traditional, or brand new” In a previously published book,…
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Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied Howard Yu Publich Affairs/Hachette Book Group (June 2018) How to “move across knowledge disciplines to leverage or create new knowledge in how a product is made or service…
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Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey John L. Hennessy Stanford University Press (September 2018) Valuable lessons to be learned and shared from a 25-year leadership journey…thus far As I began to read this thoughtful and thought-provoking book, I was again…
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One of my favorite quotations on this subject: “More women will gain admittance as a greater number knock at the door. It might be well to bring an ax along; you may have to chop your way through the…
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Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds–From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity Randy Komisar and Jantoon Riegersman HarperBusiness/An imprint of HarperCollins (2018) Probably the best single source for the…
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J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them (e.g., the learning-relevant properties of information or data). For example,…
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Ken Kocienda on the unique importance of Steve Jobs’s “mission”
In Creative Selection, Ken Kocienda takes his reader inside Apple’s design process during “The Golden Age pf Steve Jobs.” He explains how and why, in order to “understand what makes Apple what it is, its essence, you need to understand software.” You also…
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