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The Future of Management Gary Hamel with Bill Breen Harvard Business School Press (2007) With all due respect to today’s business bestsellers, most of the best books have already been written on the most important subjects. Case in point: This…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gaurav Gupta, John Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Nick Petschek for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription…
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America Steven Johnson Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (2008) It would be an exaggeration to suggest that Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is the focal point of this book. He…
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The Change Leader’s Road Map: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation Linda Ackerman Anderson and Dean Anderson Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2010) “If you’ve always done it this way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering I recently read the Second Edition of…
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Equity How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives: Minal Bopaiah Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2021) How to design an organization for equity in a business world in which inequity continues to thrive In his classic work, Power: Why Some People Have It and…
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Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Martin Amis for The New Yorker (December 31, 1995). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information please click here. Illustration…
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Nathaniel Philbrick is a leading authority on the history of Nantucket Island. His In the Heart of the Sea won the 2000 National Book Award. Sea of Glory (2003), is about the epic U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. Mayflower: A Story of Community, Courage, and…
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50 Politics Classics: Freedom Equality Power: Mind-Changing, World-Changing Ideas from Fifty Landmark Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2015) “The world is a dangerous place to live…because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert EinsteinActually, the complete…
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Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011) Why I think this is one of the most important books published during the past decade Given the number and quality of the reviews of this book that have…
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Finding the courage to shrink
Here is an excerpt from a classic article featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. Bill Huyett and Tim Koller acknowledge that spinning off businesses can have real advantages in creating value—if executives understand how. To…
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