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Irresistible Change: A Blueprint for Earning Buy-In and Breakout Success Phil Gilbert Wiley (November 2025) Soon, change will be your product, your organization will be the marketplace, and its teams will be your customers. I agree with Phil Gilbert that…
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History Matters David McCullough, Edited by Dorie McCullough Lawson, and Michael Hill Simon & Schuster (September 2025) And so do those who keep it alive when we need it most to nourish and enlighten us In recent years, I have…
Read MoreWho Knew Barry Diller Simon & Shuster (May 2025) A corporate executive for all seasons Barry Diller was born in San Francisco (in 1942) and raised within adequate but sufficient afflence in Beverly Hills. After graduation from high school, he…
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I am indebted to Katie Lange for providing the information that follows. * * * Veterans Day is a well-known American holiday, but there are also a few misconceptions about it — like how it’s spelled or whom exactly…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rahul Bhandari for MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR…
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The Short List: How to Drive Business Development by Focusing on the People Who Matter Most David Ackert Greenleaf Book Group Press (January 2025) How to have “the right conversations with the right people at the right time in the…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Kevin Carmody, Mark Hojnacki, and Rick Gold for McKinsey Quarterly. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Anne…
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AI and the Octopus Organization: Builingthe Intelligent Firm Jonathan Brill and Stephen Wunker Menlo Park Books (September (2025) BANG! Everything changed! I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s essay, “The Coming of Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era” (1993),…
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Beyond Chaos: How to Create Clarity When Everything Falls Apart Oleg Konovalov Independently Published (September 2025) Chaos is a bully. How to minimize (if not eliminate) it with clarity If W.B.Yeats were looking at the world today, I think his…
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Unlock Creativity Through Analogical Thinking
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Richard L. Gruner for MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Chris…
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