Month: April 2023
The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower Morra Aarons-Mele Harvard Business Review Press (April 2023) A brilliant analysis of how to convert anxiety into a source of positive, creative power As I began to read this…
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Allen Adamson‘s latest book, See the How: Transforming What People Do, Not Buy, to Gain Market Advantage, will be published by Matt Holt Books/An Imprint of Ben Bella Books on May 2, 2023. Here’s a sneak preview of the thrust…
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Here is another”classic” article that appeared in The New Yorker, written by Gilbert Seldes and featured in the December 19, 1931, issue. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Photograph from…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Mareike Möhlmann, and Min Kyung Lee for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * *…
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Most innovation is a gradual process. It is also a team sport, as Matt Ridley correctly suggests. Thomas Edison was eventually awarded 1,093 (singular or joint) patents for research and development of breakthrough innovations. At any time throughout a period…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Charn P. McAllister and Curtis L. Odom for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Each…
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The Transformative CEO: Impact Lessons from Industry Game Changers Jeffrey J. Fox and Robert Reiss McGraw-Hill (2012) How and why leaders transform themselves so that they will be more effective transforming their organizations NOTE: This is one of those rare business books…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Maria Jesus Saenz, Elena Revilla, and Cristina Simón for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * *…
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Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language Patricia T. O’Connor and Stewart Kellerman Random House (2009) “What’s another word for ‘thesaurus’?” Steven Wright Patricia O’Connor and Stewart Kellerman have co-authored a book in which they examine…
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Organizing for the age of urgency
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Aaron De Smet and Chris Gagnon for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email…
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