Month: May 2025
Rebooting Tech Culture; How to Ignite Innovation and Build Organizations Where Everyone Can Thrive Telle Whitney Harvard Business Review Press (May 2025) Employees rank “feeling appreciated” of greatest importance to them. I wholly agree with Telle Whitney about the importance…
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The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray Steve Sloman The MIT Press (May 2025) How and why decisions based on deepest values can sometimes lead us astray Steve Sloman explains how the mind works and how…
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The Activator Advantage: What Today’s Rainmakers Do Differently Matthew Dixon, Rory Channer, Karen Fredeman, and Ted McKenna Harvard Business Review Press (May 2025) Here is a new approach to business development that is “altogether unique and undeniably more effective” As…
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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom Matt Ridley Harper (May 2020) “Innovation offers the carrot of spectacular reward or the stick of destitution.” Joseph Schumpeter In the Introduction to his brilliant book, Matt Ridley cites a concept…
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Kelsey Gripenstraw shares highlights from a century of management insights in HBR articles. Her article is part of The Big Idea Series / 100 Years of Harvard Business Review. Credit: Israel G. Vargas HBR’s 100th anniversary marks a century of publishing ideas that improve the practice of management.…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeffrey Yip and Colin M. Fisher for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration…
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Gratitude Tiger: Creating Joy Through the Art of Impactful Letters Joel Zuckerman Greenleaf Book Group Press (April 2025) “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward As Ward’s observation correctly…
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The Power of Mattering: How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Significance Zach Mercurio Harvard Business Review Press (May 2025) “Always assume that people around you feel unseen, undervalued, and lonely — and act accordingly.” According to Zach Mercurio, “If…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Lynda Gratton for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * *…
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Choosing the right path to growth
Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Abhinav Goel, Duncan Miller, and Ryan Paulowsky for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (October 4, 2018). To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…
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