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Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes G. Shawn Hunter Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) How and why innovative leadership must “leverage a culture that will stop at nothing to fix bad ideas and stomp out mediocrity Shawn Hunter wrote…
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A buffet awaits: o “Good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” Albert Camus o “By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” Richard Dawkins o “I am…
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The Wisdom of Titans: Secrets of Success from Entrepreneurs Who Rose to the Top William Ferguson bibliomotion books + media (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison According to William Ferguson, “After interviewing the eleven titans for this book,…
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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 Jonathan Klein, C.E.O. of Getty…
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These are the articles voted most popular by mckinsey.com readers. To read any/some/all of them, learn more about the firm, and register to have access to a wealth of free resources, please click here. To check out the McKinsey Quarterly,…
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The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership Martha Heller bibliomotion (2013) The CIO “for all seasons” Rather than one paradox, as this book’s title suggests, Martha Heller rigorously and eloquently examines several separate but related paradoxes: Cost versus…
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Jon Fortt conducted a rare interview of Jeff Bezos, one that was videotaped and featured by LinkedIn. Here is Fortt’s introduction. To watch the video of the interview, please click here. Photo: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr * * * At the beginning…
Read MoreIn his book, Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success, published by St. Martin’s Press (September 2013), Dan Schawbel provides a wealth of information, insights, and counsel for those who have no clear career roadmap and are willing to…
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Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble St. Martin’s Press (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison According to Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, “The most important message in Beyond the…
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Are You a Diminisher or a Multiplier?
Liz Wiseman has co-authored two especially important books: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter with Greg Mckeown, and, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools with Lois Allen and Elise Foster. In both, she discusses two…
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