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A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness Roger L. Martin Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) “If you’ve always done it that way, you’re probably wrong.” Charles Kettering More recently, Marshall Goldsmith asserted that “what got…
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The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists Richard P. Rumelt Public Affairs (May 2022) Two sources of power: a challenge’s crux and a challenge-based strategy To what does the title of this book refer? According to Richard Rumelt, a crux is…
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HBR Guide to Being a Great Boss Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2022) Your title may be impressive but your people will determine whether or not you are a great boss This is…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Paul J. Zak for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Thanks to brands like Sephora, Disney,…
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Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making Tony Fadell HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (May 2022) “Everything begins with asking ‘Why?’” Simon Sinek Sinek agrees with Peter Drucker: “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great…
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Most people don’t know that back in 1912, Hellmann’s mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call…
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Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI Paul Daugherty and James Wilson Harvard Business Review Press (March 2018) Here is a roadmap for understanding and navigating the AI revolution According to Paul Daugherty and James Wilson, “the…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Nancy Duarte for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Every leader should design and communicate…
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Jim Collins provided the Foreword to the 50th anniversary edition of Peter Drucker’s classic, The Effective Executive, a book first published in 1967. Consider this passage: “Here are ten lessons I learned from Peter Drucker and this book, and that…
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Is the next Age of Enlightenment already here or imminent?
In recent years, two of the most intellectually stimulating books I have read were written by Anthony Gottlieb: The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (2000; Second Edition, 2016) and The Dream…
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