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Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible Daniel Burrus with John David Mann HarperBusiness (2011) Note: I recently re-read this book and am even more impressed now by the quality of its insights than I was…
Read MoreOn April 10, 2014, Charlie Rose talked with the International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, about the failure of the U.S. Congress to ratify reforms to the IMF. Here is a direct link to that conversation. To check out…
Read MoreAdam 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 Kat Cole, president of Cinnabon.…
Read MoreThe Roadside MBA: Real-world Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Start-ups and Small Businesses Michael Mazzeo, Paul Oyer, and Scott Schaefer BusinessPlus/Hatchette Book Group (2014) “When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then.” William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways Many…
Read MoreAdam 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 Tiger Tyagarajan, chief executive of…
Read MoreThe Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change James M. Kerr Pagrave/Macmillan (2014) How to replace vague ideas about your career with strategies that will help you achieve your objectives at work and everywhere else Up front,…
Read MoreBuild for Change: Revolutionizing Customer Engagement Through Continuous Digital Innovation Alan Trefler John Wiley & Sons (2014) How and why a focus on high tech and high touch will actively engage customers and fully respond to their expectations The title…
Read MoreBrandon Stanton‘s Humans of New York is one of the best books I have read in several years. He and his camera have roamed the five boroughs of New York and dozens of his encounters are in the book. Here…
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Introducing a knowledge resource of incalculable value
I am eager to call to your attention what has been, until recently, one of the best-kept secrets in knowledge leadership: Thinkers50. Des Dearlove is co-founder of the Thinkers50. He is an adjunct professor at IE Business School, an associate…
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