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François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, freedom of expression, free trade and separation…
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Into the Storm: Lessons in Teamwork from the Treacherous Sydney to Hobart Race Dennis N.T. Perkins with Jillian B. Murphy AMACOM (2012) The power of exceptional teamwork and distributed leadership when people are pressed to the limits of human endurance…
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Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School. Currently, he teaches courses on talent management and leadership in the school’s MBA and Executive Education programs. He has won numerous awards…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Elizabeth S. Choo, Walter Gossage and Trinity Martin for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning…
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If you click here you can check out “The Top 100 Speeches” at the American Rhetoric website. Better yet, you can click on any/all of the 100 speeches and read the text. And even better yet, you can click on…
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In a previous blog post, I posed a question I frequently encounter: “What if I can’t afford to retain a consultant?” Then I offered to provide (at no expense, of course) some suggestions as to how to solve an especially troublesome organizational…
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As another New Year approaches, many people hope that it will bring with it new and better opportunities, a new day as bright and as promising as the one captured in this lovely photograph. According to information provided by…
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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Every manager wants a team of dedicated employees. And yet, many bosses…
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A lawyer and former investment banker, Charles R. Morris has written twelve books and is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic Monthly. His published works include The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets,…
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Richard Tedlow on “searing” business insights
In Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built published by Harper Collins (2003), Richard Tedlow devotes an entire chapter to what he characterizes as “searing” business insights. These are comparable with religious epiphanies, what George Fox…
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