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Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All Bernard T. Ferrari Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) How and why the difference between great and mediocre managers is the ability to listen In Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World…
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Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success On the Far Side of Failure Paul J.F. Schoemaker Wharton Digital Press (2012) How and why mistakes “enlarge our range of experience, shrink our ego, and thereby increase the chance of discovery.” The title of this…
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Thanks to The American Scholar magazine’s website, you can now experience at full-strength “King, Kennedy, and the Power of Words.” Three videos accompany Tim Wendel’s brilliant article. First, Walter Cronkite‘s televised announcement of Dr. King’s assassination. Also on the night of…
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All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton Free Press (2012) How and why “it’s culture that will differentiate your organization and drive real business results”…for better or worse Those who have read any of…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Witthoft and Scott Doorley 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 an excerpt from an article written by James Allworth 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…
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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 Charlotte Beers, former chairwoman and C.E.O. of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, now…
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Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011) Why I think this is one of the most important books published during the past decade Given the number and quality of the reviews of this book that have…
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In Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success on the Far Side of Failure, Paul J. H. Schoemaker observes, “Our schools and organizations are designed for efficiency and order. These are fine principles but rarely encourage mistakes, either brilliant or foolish. Students are…
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Daniel Kahneman on “the other side of complexity”
I expect Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow to be among the most misunderstood books in recent years. A careless reading may suggest that he endorses intuition as the basis of sound judgment. In fact, he endorses enlightened intuition based…
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