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Adam 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 Michael P. Gregoire, chief executive…
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The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs & Boost Profits Zeynep Ton New Harvest/Amazon Publishing and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) The best strategy to achieve business success? It’s really so simple…and, yes, so…
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Here is an excerpt from an interview of Tim O’Reilly for the McKinsey Quarterly during which the tech entrepreneur, author, and investor looks at how open data is becoming a critical tool for business and government, as well as what…
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Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power Dan Hurley Hudson Street Press/The Penguin Group (2013) How and why revelations from recent research in neuroscience help us to be smarter about becoming smarter With rare exception, the best works of…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by John Chao, Eileen Kelly Rinaudo, and Robert Uhlaner for McKinsey & Company’s “Insights & Publications” practice. In it, they explain how and why even joint ventures developed using familiar best…
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Here is a brief and remarkably informative article by Beverly Ingle during which she explains what design thinking is and can do. It is featured by the Inc. Small Giants Community website where you can check out a wealth of…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Chris Bradley, Angus Dawson, and Sven Smit for the McKinsey Quarterly. In it, they explain how a systematic scan of the economic-profit performance of nearly 3,000 global companies yields fresh…
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Here is a brief article written by Marissa Ann Mayer for BusinessWeek in 2006. She explains how and why constraints challenge creative initiatives and thereby improve what they produce. Constraints include limited resources such as hours and dollars, of course,…
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Orbit-Shifting Innovation: The Dynamics of Ideas that Create History Rajiv Narang and Devika Devaiah KoganPage (2014) A brilliant explanation of what orbit-shifting innovation is and how to make it happen An orbit-shifting innovation is among the most disruptive. As Rajiv…
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What executives should know about open data
Here is an excerpt from an article by Michael Chui, James Manyika, and Steve Van Kuiken for the McKinsey Quarterly in which they discuss how and why novel and more accessible forms of information from government and private sources represent…
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