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In TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments, Doug Conant and Mette Norman share some excellent insights with regard to how to maximize the value of frequent and informal interaction with associates. They explain how and why…
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In Simply Brilliant, Bernard Schroeder explains how specific “tools” can unlock creativity and spark new ideas. I agree with Abraham Maslow: “The key question isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative?…We have got…
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In his latest book, The Geography of Genius, Eric Weiner engages his reader as a companion during “a search for the world’s most creative places, from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley.” Here are a few excerpts that correctly suggest the…
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In Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, Antonio García Martinéz introduces what is — at least for me — a new metaphor: the chaos monkey. He explains it as a mechanism by which to “test a…
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Over the years, I have relied on a few journalists to help me navigate my way through the forces and events that resemble a fog in everyday life. David Brooks is one of them. His mind reminds me of a…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by John DeVine and Keith Gilson for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription…
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In The Mosaic Principle, Nick Lovegrove examines what he characterizes as “the six dimensions [or behaviors] of a remarkable life and career.” Here they are: 1. Doing What Seems Right: Applying Your Moral Compass 2. On Being T-Shaped: Defining an…
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In Age of Discovery, Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna explain how most of us are struggling to navigate the risks and rewards of what they characterize as “our new Renaissance.” Today, we are engaged in a contest “between the good…
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How to attack what Jim O’Toole characterizes as “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny for custom”
In Reorg, Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood introduce and then thoroughly explain a five-step process by which to complete organizational transformation. I agree with them that, in order to get it right, those involved should have a solid business rationale…
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