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HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (February 2017) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker This is the latest…
Read MoreSteven Spielberg: A Life in Films Molly Haskell Yale University Press (January 2017) “Everything about me is in my films.” Steven Spielberg There is substantial truth in Steven Spielberg’s observation, as Molly Haskell indicates in this brief but remarkably comprehensive…
Read MoreIn Beyond Performance Management, Jeremy Hope and Steve Player recommend key practices to achieve superior performance. For example, how to use key value drivers as the processes and practices by which to have the greatest impact on shareholder value. “Valuation…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an interview of Bill Kahn by David Zinger for Halogen Software’s TalentSpace blog. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click…
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Eduardo Braun is a leadership expert, keynote speaker, and author. For more than 15 years he has traveled the globe and engaged in conversation with world-renowned management leaders, heads of state, and top academics and entrepreneurs, including personalities such as…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Dana Maor , Angelika Reich, and Lara Yocarini for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They discuss a new survey whose results such suggests that, for their transformations…
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These are among my favorite Woody Allen observations. I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. I failed to make the chess team because of my height. I don’t want to achieve immortality…
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In Radical Candor, Kim Scott explains how almost any organization — whatever its size and nature may be — can “defy the gravitational pull of organizational mediocrity.” The ultimate goal of what she characterizes as Radical Candor “is to achieve…
Read MoreIn Fortune Makers, Michael Useem, Harbir Singh, Neng Liang, and Peter Cappelli focus on “the leaders creating China’s great companies.” They explain how these leaders “have used capitalism to pull 600 million people out of poverty and [China] is on…
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The Wisdom of Viktor Frankl
These are among my favorite Viktor Frankl observations: To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to “be happy.” But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to “be happy.’”…
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