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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 Jarrod Moses, founder of United Entertainment Group, a marketing agency,…
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Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire Paul Smith AMACOM (2012) “Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.” This book is among the best that discuss one or more…
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How can we design schools that foster innovative thinking? At TEDxNYED, Tony Wagner outlines how an overemphasis on individual achievement, hyper-specialization, and an aversion to risk have stymied inventiveness and describes what specifically teachers and parents can do to sow…
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Street Smart Disciplines of Successful People: 7 Indispensable Disciplines for Breakout Business Success John A. Kuhn and Mark K. Mullins CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2012) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein Einstein’s admonition stresses the…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Donald Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here.…
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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.* * * Teams that come together across different units and time zones to…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tony Wagner that first appeared in Education Week (November 11, 2003). Don’t let the publication date fool you. If anything, his recommendations are even more urgently needed now than they were then. To read…
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o “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer o “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I…
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My guess (only a guess) is that whenever a list of the greatest storytellers throughout history is compiled, Charles Dickens would be among those included. The creative talents of other novelists (notably Balzac and Dostoevsky) are probably ranked higher but I think Dickens’ skills with setting a…
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“10Minutes on sustainable cost reduction” from PWC
From time to time, I come upon material that seems especially interesting and, more to the point, valuable. Here is one example: The 10Minutes series from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PWC), a Delaware limited liability partnership. * * * We recognize how…
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