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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work Liz Wiseman Harper Business (2014) Quaerere Eruditionem: Always “Seek Learning” In her previously published books, Liz Wiseman shares her thoughts about the power of multiplication, a force that…
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Only twice in American history has a son followed his father into the presidency. The first was John Quincy Adams. The second, George W. Bush, has now written a biography of his father, George H.W. Bush. It’s called 41: A…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Fred Gluck, Michael G. Jacobides, and Dan Simpson for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. The founder of McKinsey’s Strategy Practice, a London Business School professor, and a…
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Location is (Still) Everything: The Surprising Influence of the Real World on How We Search, Shop, and Sell in the Virtual One David R. Bell New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) The power and perils of becoming actively engaged with the…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, Michael G. Jacobides shares his thoughts about gray rhinos, “the real danger.” To read the complete article, check out other…
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The Editors of Inc. have just announced their selections for an annual list of 11 Great Business Books to Read Right Now. Here are three. * * * The Innovators by Walter Isaacson The stories of Gates, Wozniak, Jobs, Page,…
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A group of chaps, all aged 40, discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they would meet at Wetherspoons in Uxbridge because the waitresses had big breasts and wore mini-skirts. Ten years later, at age…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ken Oehler, Lorraine Stomski, and Magdalena Kustra-Olszewska for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information,…
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Words That Don’t Mean What You Think They Mean
I have been a lifelong student of etymology: the original meaning of words. This is an endlessly fascinating subject because some words retain the sense of their original meeting but have different applications. For example, “sarcasm.” Its original meaning is…
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