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The Mentor Myth: How to Take Control of Your Own Success Debby Carreau Bibliomotion Media (April 2016) Who’s your best mentor? That would be you IF you are determined to become the best you that you can be Oscar Wilde…
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Want More Motivation? Charles Duhigg invites you to take this counterintuitive lesson from the U.S. Marines. Probably few organizations value self-motivation like the U.S. Marine Corps, so when their recruits began showing deficiencies, officers dug into the latest psychologist research.…
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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 Tricia Clarke-Stone, C.E.O. of Narrative,…
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The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future Steve Case Simon & Schuster (April 2016) A compelling personal account of an inclusive and explosive digital revolution from one of those who launched it It was Alvin Toffler who introduced…
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Robert Salomon is a professor of International Management and a Faculty Scholar at the NYU Stern School of Business. He is an award-winning scholar and educator who has been teaching and conducting research on globalization and global strategy for nearly…
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Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy Stephen Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong Harvard Business Review Press (March 2016) How and why getting economic policy right “is and has been of overwhelming importance in generating prosperity” Opinions…
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George Couros is a leading educator in the area of innovative leadership, teaching, and learning. He has worked with all levels of school, from K-12 as a teacher and technology facilitator and as a school and district administrator. He is…
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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 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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Edward de Bono on the mind as a pattern making machine
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 what…
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