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INVENTology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World Pagan Kennedy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (February 2016) Mother Nature: The ultimate mentor for both invention and innovation The last time I checked, Amazon US was offering 31,976 books for sale…
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By serving your employees, you can build a happier, more-productive business with a better bottom line. At least that is the assertion by Peter Economy in an article for Inc. magazine. Here is a brief excerpt. To read the complete…
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Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent Sydney Finkelstein Portfolio/Penguin Random House (2016) Here in a single volume is a “master class in how each of us can make a much greater impact in what we do” In…
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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 Amit Singh, president of Google…
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Why do companies need to be more nimble? McKinsey’s Aaron De Smet and Chris Gagnon explain what’s driving organizational agility, why it matters, and what to do. Here is a brief excerpt from their interview conducted for the McKinsey Quarterly,…
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A Hungarian psychologist who relocated to the United States in 1956 at there age of 22, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced “me-high CHEEK-sent-me-high”) is one of the most influential contemporary thinkers in recent years. He is probably best-known for his concept of…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Caroline Webb for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information, and register…
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Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi with Art Kleiner Harvard Business Review Press (2016) How and why getting strategy and execution in cohesive alignment “is a worthwhile legacy for any leader…
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Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think”: One of most important essays ever written
An essay appeared the July 1945 issue of what was then the Atlantic Monthly magazine that is now widely considered one of the most important essays in the history of world literature. It was written by Vannevar Bush and I…
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