Commentaries

An operating model for company-wide agile development

November 5, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Santiago Comella-Dorda, Swati Lohiya, and Gerard Speksnijder for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm,…

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How about a dose of innovation to ease infrastructure strains?

November 4, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Nicklas Garemo, Jan Mischke, and Jonathan Woetzel for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm,…

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Senior Moments

November 3, 2016

These were sent to me without proper attribution. You may be amused by a least a few *     *     * George Phillips, an elderly man from Walled Lake, Michigan, was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he’d…

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Women in the Workplace 2016

November 2, 2016

Here is an edited extract from a new report that addresses issues that are, if anything, of even greater importance now than ever before. Women in the Workplace 2016 is a comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate…

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Geoffrey Colon on How to Navigate the “New Normal”

November 1, 2016

In Disruptive Marketing (AMACOM August 2016), Geoffrey Colon suggests that that there is a new paradigm in marketing. The best minds (data punks, designers, and creative hybrids) “use social business models and insights instead of hierarchical org charts, while immersing…

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David Zweig on “Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of the Workforce”

October 31, 2016

In Invisibles (Portfolio/Penguin Group 2015), David Zweig develops in much greater depth several insights introduced earlier in an article that appeared in The Atlantic (March 12, 2012), “What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have in Common?.” He explains why some people…

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Geoffrey Colon on “Four Goals for Disruptive Marketers”

October 30, 2016

In Disruptive Marketing (AMACOM August 2016), Geoffrey Colon suggests that that there is a new paradigm in marketing. The best minds (data punks, designers, and creative hybrids) “use social business models and insights instead of hierarchical org charts, while immersing…

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Clarence Thomas’s Twenty-Five Years without Footprints

October 29, 2016

Clarence Thomas has never been assigned a landmark opinion for the Supreme Court. Why? Here is an excerpt from an article by Jeffrey Tobin for The New Yorker in which he responds to that question. To read the complete article,…

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The Ingredients for Organizational Ambidexterity

October 28, 2016

First of all, what is organizational ambidexterity? In essence, it means that an organization is able to take full advantage of its existing assets and capabilities and apply them in the creation of new ones. This is what Vijay Govindarajan…

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Harbor Singh and Michael Useem on “The Strategic Leader’s Checklist”

October 27, 2016

In The Strategic Leadership Roadmap (October 2016), Harbir Singh and Michael Useem offer a six-step process by which to develop managers who can integrate leadership and strategy. Here is one of the passages that caught my eye: The Strategic Leader’s…

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