Month: March 2020
In his latest and (in my opinion) most valuable book, Charismatic Leadership: The Skills You Can Learn to Motivate High Performance in Others, Kevin Murray shares his thoughts about several issues of special interest to all leaders as well as…
Read MoreIn Always Day One, Alex Kantrowitz explains that “Always Day One” is code at Amazon for “inventing like a startup, with little regard for legacy…in today’s business world, where Day Two is death, it’s the key to survival.” Kantrowitz suggests…
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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Unfocused meetings. Competing priorities. Confusion over who gets…
Read MoreLong ago, Thomas Edison observed, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” I was again reminded of that as I began to read Lead from the Future in which Mark Johnson and Josh Suskewicz share their thoughts about how to turn visionary…
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The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind Jonah Berger Simon & Schuster (March 2020) “If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.” Kurt Lewin Years ago while in Washington (DC), I attended a reception for the new…
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The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We’ve Sold to Machines William Davidow and Michael S. Malone Berrett-Koehler Publishers (February 2020) Changes each day “are transforming the terms of life for billions in every corner of the world.” in the Introduction,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Claudio Fernandez Araoz 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…
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During these difficult times, wisdom is especially welcome as we struggle to cope with all manner of challenges, often in the form of ambiguities. Two friends, Katherine and Michael Stafford shared a personal statement with me and now I share…
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Washington’s End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle Jonathan Horn Scribner (February 2020) The end of “the American Cincinnatus” and the beginning of a city “that no one could control” There are two periods in U.S. history that have received…
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Don’t Let Perfection Be the Enemy of Productivity
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alice Boye 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…
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