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Players: The Story of Sports and Money, and the Visionaries Who Fought to Create a Revolution Matthew Futterman Simon & Schuster (2016) Greed corrupts…and absolute greed corrupts absolutely. Long ago, I realized that the correct answer to most questions about…
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How Performance Management Is Killing Performance — and What to Do About It M. Tamra Chandler Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2016) “Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” Peter Drucker Years…
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In People Analytics in the Era of Big Data: Changing the Way You Attract, Acquire, Develop, and Retain Talent, Jean Paul Isson and Jesse S. Harriott suggest six questions that should be asked in order to develop the most effective…
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Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation Edward Humes Harper/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2016) Carmageddon or Carmaheaven? That determination could be made by “titanic enterprises” and/or “small choices” Frankly, I had no idea (or any interest in…
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Here is an excerpt from a mini-commentary featured at the BOA/Merrill Lynch website. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Women’s growing clout—as entrepreneurs, executives and consumers—is changing how companies do business and spurring economic growth…
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2. What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? 3. Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks, “Do all of you want a drink?” The first logician says “I don’t know.” The second…
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In The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth, Chris Zook and James Allen identify and discuss three predictable crises that can result from growth. Each of the three occurs at a different phase of an organization’s…
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In Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government, William Eggers recommends and explains nine strategies that will help decision-makers in governmental entities that need to attract, hire, train, and then retain the talent they need to compete…
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The Myth of Meritocracy
In The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, Michael J. Mauboussin rigorously examines a common mistake when making predictions: failing to recognize luck’s existence or miscalculating its influence, “and as a consequence we dwell too…
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