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The Practice: Shipping Creative Work Seth Godin Portfolio/Penguin (November 2020) Once again, Seth Godin shares “everything you need to make magic” So far, Seth Godin has created nineteen international bestsellers and will probably create another dozen or two in the…
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Thank you, IMDb, for providing a wealth of information about the entertainment world. For example, the life and work of Sean Connery: * * * He was born Thomas Sean Connery on August 25, 1930 in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, and recently…
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In The Genius of Birds, Jennifer Ackerman observes: “Birds learn. They solve new problems and invent novel solutions to old ones. They make and use tools. They count. They copy behaviors from one another. They remember where they put things.”…
Read MoreWilford Brimley in a scene from “Absence of Malice.” “I’m never the leading man,” he said in 1993. “I never get the girl. And I never get to take my shirt off.” Credit…Columbia Pictures By William Grimes Wilford Brimley,…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sven Blumberg, Thomas Delaet, and Kartikeya Swami for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign…
Read MoreHBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict Amy Gallo Harvard Business Review Press (April 2017) Cutting-edge thinking about the common sources of conflict, how people approach it differently, and how to resolve it [Note: Here’s a reprise of one of my…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by James Fallows for The Atlantic. To rread the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. * * * Why did it take so long…
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Here is an excerpt from another “classsic” article written by Michael D. Watkins 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…
Read MoreOnly Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby HarperBusiness/An imprint of HarperCollins (2016) How the most productive workplaces combine talented people with sophisticated machines in high-impact augmentation [Note: I…
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Ed Hess is a Professor of Business Administration, Batten Fellow and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He spent more than 20 years in the business world as a senior executive at…
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