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Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes Sydney Finkelstein Portfolio/Penguin (2003) First Time, Shame on Them….After That, Shame on You Initially, Finkelstein really didn’t understand, nor did I before reading his book, how and why…
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Here is a brief excerpt from a recent addition to NPR’s “Author Interviews” series. To read the complete interview and check out others, please click here. * * * In 2009, one of the founders of the online eyeglass maker…
Read MoreFor years on this national holiday, I have posted a list of the number of men and women in the military services who were killed during each of the wars in which the United States has been involved. My sources…
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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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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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Michael Porter on Competitive Strategy: Choosing What Not to Do
With regard to one of Michael Porter‘s classic works, On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition, in his own words: “Competition is one of society’s most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of…
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