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Fascinate: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist, Revised and Updated Edition Sally Hogshead HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (April 2016) How creating a brand with one or more of seven advantages can help to create or increase and then…
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Enabling Collaboration: Achieving Success Through Strategic Alliances and Partnerships Martin Echavarria LID Publishing (2015) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb I agree with Martin Echavarria: “Clearly the age…
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TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics —…
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HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case Raymond Sheen with Amy Gallo Harvard Business Review Press (2015) Here is a five-step process to prepare and then deliver a “killer” presentation Most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide to” series…
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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 Vivian S. Lee, . To…
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At one time or another, almost every executive has had to make a case to obtain agreement, approval, and (usually) resources to achieve a specific business objective. It could be funds for a start-up or for a new project. It…
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I have watched each of the most popular TED presentations, not once but several times. (Please click here to check them out.) My personal favorites include Ken Robinson’s “Do schools kill creativity?,” Amy Cuddy’s “Your body language shapes who you…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Wendy K. Smith, Marianne W. Lewis, and Michael L. Tushman for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources,…
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Peter Drucker once suggested that “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” There is no denying the power of culture. Indeed, Jim O’Toole suggests that the strongest resistance to change is cultural in nature, the result of what he so aptly characterizes…
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Dan Pallotta: The dream we haven’t dared to dream
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics —…
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