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Watching curator Chris Anderson in speaker rehearsals before a TED conference feels like witnessing the zen of a longtime coach who knows his sport both inside out and backwards. Whenever a trial run of a talk feels just a little…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an article by John Hagel for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * Platforms are becoming increasingly central to business value creation. Yet, not…
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Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Craftsman Peter Korn David R. Godine, Publisher (2014) How and why the creative effort “is a process of challenging embedded narratives in order to….” Peter Korn poses an…
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The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition Grgegory Hickok W.W. Norton & Company (2014) How the latest research in neuroscience can help almost anyone think and communicate much more effectively I begin with an unconventional…
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John F. Dini is a consultant and coach to hundreds of business owners, CEOs and Presidents of companies with over 11,000 hours of delivering face-to-face, personal advice to entrepreneurs through The Alternative Board®. Dini is the author of three books…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Tom Davenport for Deloitte University Press. In it, he explains why and how ten types of innovation can be driven, supported, or measured with analytics. If you’re not using analytics for…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ranjan Dutta for Talent Management magazine. As he explains, with the economy on an upswing and voluntary turnover increasing as a result, quality hiring is under the spotlight. Predictive analytics can…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by John Hagel for Deloitte University Press. In it, he explains why management needs a more effective way to attract and retain talent by creating an environment within which talented people are…
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Classics for Pleasure Michael Dirda A Harvest Book/Hartcourt, Inc. (2007) “Michael Dirda is the best-read person in America. But he doesn’t rub it in.” Michael Kinsley I agree with Kinsley, presuming to suggest that the same can be said of…
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Some read, others only read about: Basic Issues
Robert Benchley is among my favorite humorists. He once observed, “The world is divided into two groups of people. Those who divide the world into two groups of people and those who don’t.” I am among those who divide the…
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