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Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy Execution and Organizational Effectiveness Alec Levenson Berrett-Koehler Publishers (November 2015) Here is “a comprehensive road map for starting and completing a cultural transformation.” C-level executives face a number of challenges and one of the most important…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article from The New Yorker (September 1, 2014, issue) in which Rebecca Mead discusses Mary Beard, a classics professor at the University of Cambridge whose most recent of 14 books is SPQR: A…
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As technological change accelerates and adoption rates soar, ten pivotal trends loom large on the top-management agenda. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Jacques Bughin, Michael Chui, and James Manyika for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by…
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Is it possible to run a company and reinvent it at the same time? For business strategist Knut Haanaes, the ability to innovate after becoming successful is the mark of a great organization. He shares insights on how to strike…
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Edward de Bono is generally credited with introducing the concept of lateral thinking in 1967 and then in a book, Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (1970). Vertical Thinking is what Aristotle has in mind in On Rhetoric when discussing…
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The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Fourth Edition Warren Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham (Editor) Carolina Academic Press (2015) The best of four anthologies of wit and wisdom from “the world’s greatest investor” There are several people…
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How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals —…
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Radical customization, constant experimentation, and novel business models will be new hallmarks of competition as companies capture and analyze huge volumes of data. Here’s what you should know. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Brad Brown,…
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Don’t Get Fooled by a First Impression When Hiring
Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Disastrous hires can happen when managers are fooled by first…
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