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Tickling Sharks: How We Sold Businesses on Sustainability John Elkington Fast Company Press (June 2024) “You’re going to need a larger perspective.” As I began to read Tickling Sharks, I was again reminded of Vernon Vinge’s essay, “The Coming of…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa Swift for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT…
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The AI-Savvy Leader: 9 Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work David De Cremer Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) How and why AI is best viewed as an invaluable coworker I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s essay, “The…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Julie Zhuo for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Alexander Nicholson/Getty Images…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.” Tim Brown This book is one of the most recent volumes in…
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Here is a classic article written by Amanda Vaill for The American Scholar in which she focuses on the postwar thinkers who stripped the world of preconceptions To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * …
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…
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The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers & Acquisitions Game Mark L. Sirower and Jeffery M. Weirens Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company…
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Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success Ron Friedman Simon & Schuster (June 2021) How to reverse engineer success, however you define it As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of how…
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Entropy: The silent assassin of organizational health
In 1865, a German physicist, Rudolph Clausius (1822-1888), coined the term entropy during his research on heat. The word’s meaning: “a turning towards” (in Greek, en+tropein), “content transformative” or “transformative content.” Clausius used the concept to establish a mathematical foundation for the second law…
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