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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Chip Bergh, chief executive of…
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The Executive Education and Center for Leadership and Change Management programs at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania continue to generate an abundance of valuable material for executives in need of cutting edge thinking. Nao Tools offer an…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions Various Contributors and Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Press (2013 Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers — and how to make better ones This is one in a series…
Read MoreHere is the introduction to an interview of Sylvia Nasar by Rob Norton as part of “The Thought Leader Interview” series featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. To read the complmail alerts, and obtain subscription information, please…
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These are among my favorites from Steven Wright’s observations: 1. You can’t have everything. Where would you put it? 2. I was once walking through the forest alone, and a tree fell right in front of me—and I didn’t hear…
Read MoreMastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova Viking/The Penguin Group (2013) How the Science of Deduction and Analysis can make sense of “a pink elephant world” Frankly, I have never read another book quite like this one, written…
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In Thinkers 50 Leadership: Organizational Success through Leadership, Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove focus on various dimensions and elements of a subject that has fascinated thoughtful commentators at least since a blind poet, Homer, created the Iliad and Odyssey; then,…
Read MoreBeyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes Margaret Heffernan TED Books/Simon & Schuster (2015) The “paradox of organizational culture”: it makes a big difference although comprised of small actions, habits, and choices. I have read and reviewed all of…
Read MoreThe Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative Thinking Rowan Gibson John Wiley & Sons (2o15) How to establish a culture within which everyone’s abilities are free to enrich high-impact innovation throughout the enterprise First of all, I…
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