Commentaries

Three keys to faster, better decisions

September 24, 2020

  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,…

Read More

How to support delegation and employee empowerment

September 23, 2020

  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,…

Read More

The building blocks of behavioral strategy

September 22, 2020

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…

Read More

Standing on the shoulders of giants

September 20, 2020

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…

Read More

From there to here: 50 years of thinking on the social responsibility of business

September 18, 2020

  Milton Friedman’s pathbreaking essay on corporate purpose was published on September 13, 1970. How much has management thinking evolved? Check out one response in this excerpt from an article written for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company.…

Read More

Margaret Heffernan on the power of experimentation

September 18, 2020

In Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future, Margaret Hefferman suggests that experiments is how we learn everything.  “We try to stand up, fall over, recalibrate, and next time find we can  teeter for a second or two. Keep at it…

Read More

Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail

September 17, 2020

Here is an excerpt from another “classic” article written by John P. Kotter 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…

Read More

Where Companies Go Wrong with Learning and Development

September 16, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Steve Glaveski 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 alerts,…

Read More

11 Of The Most Famous Accidental Inventions Ever

September 15, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article by Rohit Bhattacharya that is featured at the ScoopWhoop Media website. The etymology of “invention” is early 15c., invencioun, “finding or discovering of something,” from Old French invencion (13c.) and directly from Latin…

Read More

To Build Emotional Strength, Expand Your Brain

September 14, 2020

  The quest to understand something new is a key factor to building the resilience necessary to weather setbacks and navigate life’s volatility. Here is an excerpt from an article about that by Kerry Hannon. To read the complete article,…

Read More