Month: September 2020
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Brad Stone for Bloomberg Businessweek. He spoke to hundreds of current and former employees, as well as friends and family of founder Jeff Bezos, to discover the poignant story of…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Aaron De Smet, Gregor Jost, and Leigh Weiss for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm,…
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Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All David Kelley and Tom Kelley Currency (October 2013) How almost anyone can develop a creative, human-centered mindset and help achieve breakthrough innovations I read and reviewed this book when it was…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Aaron De Smet, Caitlin Hewes, and Leigh Weiss for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm,…
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Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism Christopher Marquis Yale University Press (September 2020) Why shareholder primacy is “the cancer that’s killing American competitiveness” and how to cure it Briefly, founded by a nonprofit called B Lab,…
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Here is an excerpt from another “classic” article written by Dan Lovallo and Olivier Sibony for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up…
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McK Here is an excerpt from an article written by Niall Ferguson for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and…
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Ruthless Consistency: How Committed Leaders Execute Strategy, Implement Change, and Build Organizations That Win Michael Canic McGraw-Hill (September 2020) How to avoid “the unintended, unrecognized, and unforgivable consequences of failure” I agree with Michael Canic: “The tragedy of repeated failures…
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Standing on the shoulders of giants is a metaphor that means “Using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before in order to make intellectual progress.” It is a metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants…
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Why Leadership Training Fails—and What to Do About It
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Beer, Magnus Finnström, and Derek Schrader for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information,…
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