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All of the companies that are annually ranked as the most highly admired and best to work for have a workplace culture within which collaboration thrives. In his latest business fable, The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate…
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Achieving Longevity: How Great Firms Prosper Through Entrepreneurial Thinking Jim Dewald University of Toronto Press (June 2016) Improvement that is not continuous is merely a gesture of no enduring value Years ago at a GE annual meeting, its then chairman…
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Established companies are often late to spot mortal threats to their business model. Here’s how they should respond when industry disruption strikes. Here is a portion of a podcast transcript of a program sponsored by McKinsey & Company. To listen…
Read MoreWhen the Pressure’s On: The Secret to Winning When You Can’t Afford to Lose Louis S. Csoka AMACOM (June 2016) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey, June 22, 2016 All of us can identify with a situation when…
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Do you and your colleagues need a supply-and-demand guide to digital disruption? Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Angus Dawson, Martin Hirt, and Jay Scanlan for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read…
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“Correlation is not causation, of course, but some of the world’s most successful companies are good at design.” So suggests Bennett Voyles in an article featured by LiveMint, published by HT Media. This company found its beginning in 1924 when…
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The Power of Peers: How the Company You Keep Drives Leadership, Growth, and Success Leon Shapiro and Leo Bottary Bibliomotion (2016) “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 (Act III, Scene 1) Results of…
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The Innovation Formula: The 14 Science-Based Keys for Creating a Culture Where Innovation Thrives Amantha Imber John Wiley & Sons (2016) To paraphrase Henry Ford, “If you think you can or think you can’t create a culture where innovation thrives,…
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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Soledad O’Brien, chief executive of…
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What’s the “secret sauce” for accelerating personal growth and professional development?
In their latest collaboration, Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner articulate what I characterize as the “secret sauce” for accelerating personal growth and professional development: “You have to aspire to excel.…
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