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In Beyond Performance Management, Jeremy Hope and Steve Player recommend key practices to achieve superior performance. For example, how to use key value drivers as the processes and practices by which to have the greatest impact on shareholder value. “Valuation…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Dana Maor , Angelika Reich, and Lara Yocarini for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They discuss a new survey whose results such suggests that, for their transformations…
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These are among my favorite Woody Allen observations. I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. I failed to make the chess team because of my height. I don’t want to achieve immortality…
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In Radical Candor, Kim Scott explains how almost any organization — whatever its size and nature may be — can “defy the gravitational pull of organizational mediocrity.” The ultimate goal of what she characterizes as Radical Candor “is to achieve…
Read MoreIn Fortune Makers, Michael Useem, Harbir Singh, Neng Liang, and Peter Cappelli focus on “the leaders creating China’s great companies.” They explain how these leaders “have used capitalism to pull 600 million people out of poverty and [China] is on…
Read MoreIn The Power of Little Ideas, written with Kent Lineback, David Robertson introduces a low-risk, high-reward approach to innovation he characterizes as the “Third Way.” In essence, this approach is “neither incremental improvement in current products nor revolutionary [radical] disruption…
Read MoreIn The Power of Little Ideas, written with Kent Lineback, David Robertson introduces a low-risk, high-reward approach to innovation he characterizes as the “Third Way.” In essence, this approach is “neither incremental improvement in current products nor revolutionary [radical] disruption…
Read MoreIn The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson explains how and why breakthrough creativity happens at the Intersection of different fields, ideas, people, and cultures. This is a revised, updated, and expanded edition of a book first published in 2004, with a…
Read MoreIn Extreme Teams, Robert Bruce Shaw explains “why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and other cutting-edge companies succeed where most fail.” They create a workplace culture within which great teams are most likely to thrive. Shaw suggests takeaways for each chapter. These…
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The Wisdom of Viktor Frankl
These are among my favorite Viktor Frankl observations: To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to “be happy.” But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to “be happy.’”…
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