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Why Simple Wins: Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters Lisa Bodell Bibliomotion (October 2016) How and why simplification can “dramatically improve results [whereas] complexity can accelerate a company’s death knell.” In all business operations, simplicity is…
Read MoreThe Agenda Mover: When Good Ideas Are Not Enough Samuel B. Bacharach Cornell University Press (August 2016) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of the fact that, for…
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Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna St. Martin’s Press (May 2016) How and why “this new golden age will not simply arrive; we have to achieve it.” As you…
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First of all, what is organizational ambidexterity? In essence, it means that an organization is able to take full advantage of its existing assets and capabilities and apply them in the creation of new ones. This is what Vijay Govindarajan…
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In The Strategic Leadership Roadmap (October 2016), Harbir Singh and Michael Useem offer a six-step process by which to develop managers who can integrate leadership and strategy. Here is one of the passages that caught my eye: The Strategic Leader’s…
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How to attack what Jim O’Toole characterizes as “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny for custom”
In Reorg, Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood introduce and then thoroughly explain a five-step process by which to complete organizational transformation. I agree with them that, in order to get it right, those involved should have a solid business rationale…
Read MoreAward-winning author/speaker/consultant Louis Patler is President of Thhttp://bobmorris.biz/louis-patler-on-making-your-own-waves-part-1-of-an-interview-by-bob-morrise B.I.T. Group, a strategic business consulting & training company. Two of his books were on Steve Jobs’ recommended reading list. The J. Walter Thompson Agency named him one of “The 20 Most…
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In TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments, Doug Conant and Mette Norman share some excellent insights with regard to how to maximize the value of frequent and informal interaction with associates. They explain how and why…
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In Simply Brilliant, Bernard Schroeder explains how specific “tools” can unlock creativity and spark new ideas. I agree with Abraham Maslow: “The key question isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative?…We have got…
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Clarence Thomas’s Twenty-Five Years without Footprints
Clarence Thomas has never been assigned a landmark opinion for the Supreme Court. Why? Here is an excerpt from an article by Jeffrey Tobin for The New Yorker in which he responds to that question. To read the complete article,…
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