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Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change William Bridges DeCapo Lifelong Books (2009) Durable Insights…Practical Suggestions I read this book when it was first published (1991) and recently re-read it, curious to see how well Bridges’ ideas have held up…
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Here is a sequence of brief excerpts from an interview of David McCullough by Brian Bolduc, featured in The Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011). To read the complete interview, please click here. * * * The popular historian David…
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Chip Heath and Dan Heath Random House (2007) The art and science of devising ideas that have impact and endurance This is one of the most entertaining as well as…
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard Chip Heath and Dan Heath Crown Business (2010) Several Sticky Insights Chip and Dan Heath have once again summoned a lively writing style to present a series of compelling insights that…
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Being Strategic: Plan for Success; Out-think Your Competitors; Stay Ahead of Change Erika Andersen St. Martins Press (2009) How to make decisions that drive success For organizations as well as for individuals, strategies resemble “hammers” and tactics resemble “nails” in…
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Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers Erika Andersen Portfolio/Penguin Group (2007) How green is your organization’s “thumb”? Note: The review that follows is of the paperback edition with a new preface. Erika Andersen makes brilliant use of…
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Here are two of Dan Roam’s core beliefs: “I believe that any problem can be solved with a picture. And that anybody can draw it.” That’s not a BS blurb from one of his books, articles, or speeches. He lives those…
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Practically Radical: Not So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself William C. Taylor William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers (2011) As Taylor explains in this book, organizations cannot be transformed unless and until those who…
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Believe In The Future This is one of the cartoons I did for my client, the Rackspace Cloud. It’s a riff on the famous Gandhi line, “Become the change you want to see.” In other words, the Rackspace cloud…
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3 Tips for Dealing with an Urgent Request
Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. We live in an instant-response world where a simple push of a…
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