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Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers, Your Products and Your People Joseph A. Michelli McGraw-Hill (2013) How one coffee shop in Seattle became 20,891 in 62 countries This is the second book in which Joseph…
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I am among those who are convinced that workers must be self-motivated to become actively, productively, and happily engaged in the given enterprise. However, it is possible to create a workplace environment with appropriate supervision within which people are most…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Franklyn Cater for National Public Radio (NPR), “A thriving media organization at the forefront of digital innovation, NPR creates and distributes award-winning news, information, and music programming to a network of…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an especially timely article by Josh Bersin for LinkedIn. He observes, “I can tell the economy is recovering: we’re suddenly seeing companies tell us that ’employee retention’ has become a critical issue. Let me…
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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way Amanda Ripley Simon & Schuster (2013) Valuable lessons to be learned from how school children are educated in Finland, South Korea, and Poland Amanda Ripley shares what she…
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In Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (O’Reilly Media 2008), Scott Berkun provides an abundance of information, insights, and counsel on how to master project management, whatever the nature and extent of a project may be. Inevitably, problems develop once a…
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“Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal” Who said it first? Steve Jobs? Pablo Picasso? T. S. Eliot? W. H. Davenport Adams? Lionel Trilling? Igor Stravinsky? William Faulkner? Apocryphal? Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Garson O’Toole…
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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 Glenn Kelman, chief executive of…
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What Keeps Leaders Up at Night: Recognizing and Resolving Your Most Troubling Management Issues Nicole A. Lipkin AMACOM (2013) Here are valuable leadership lessons to be learned from a former barefoot cobbler In her exceptionally thoughtful and thought-provoking Introduction, Nicole…
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Geoffrey Moore on “Open Innovation: Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up”
In Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (2003) and then in Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape (2006), Henry Chesbrough explains that a business model “performs two important functions: it…
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