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The New Corporate Facts of Life: Rethink Your Business and Transform Today’s Challenges into Tomorrow’s Profits Diana Rivenburgh AMACOM (2013) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith The Goldsmith assertion that serves as the title of this…
Read MoreHere is a chronicle of the Pilgrims’ arrival at Plymouth, as recorded by Nathaniel Morton (1616-1685). It has been published annually in the Wall Street Journal since 1961. * * * Here beginneth the chronicle of those memorable circumstances of…
Read MoreWinning from Within: A Breakthough Method for Leading, Living, and Lasting Change Erica Ariel Fox HarperBusiness/Imprint of HarperCollins (2013) Here is “a practical and accessible set of tools that explains how…to broker deals with others [and] make peace with ourselves”…
Read MoreBill Bryson is one of my favorite writers. Here is a brief excerpt from Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (1998). “When a celebration was deemed in order, the Puritans were delighted…
Read MoreDesign Thinking for Strategic Innovation: What They Can’t Teach You at Business or Design School Idris Mootee John Wiley & Sons (2013) How cutting-edge design thinking can help business leaders respond to challenges that transcend specialized disciplines, First of all,…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an article by James Parker for The Atlantic during which he explains why Rockwell’s tableaux of American innocence aren’t as simple as they seem.. To read the complete article, check out a wealth of…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Chris Bradley, Angus Dawson, and Antoine Montard for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, they explain how to increase the likelihood of developing effective strategies through…
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War, Peace, and Listicles: Leo Tolstoy on Money, Fame, and Writing for the Wrong Reasons
Here is a brief excerpt from another thought-provoking article by Maria Popova for her website, Brain Pickings, during which she provides a lament on being “self-confident and self-satisfied as only those can be who are quite holy or who do…
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