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The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom Portfolio/Penguin Group (2008) Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom explain that the title of their book refers to metaphors: The starfish represents the decentralized…
Read MoreSway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman Broadway Books (2008) The Brothers Brafman seem to have an insatiable curiosity about what may, at first, seem to be aberrational human behavior but is in fact commonplace.…
Read MoreTransforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success Dean R. Spitzer AMACOM (2007) How to measure only what really what matters…and do it right In this remarkable volume, Dean Spitzer urges his reader to re-think how…
Read MorePhoto credit: Genelet via flickr used under a creative Commons License. Here is a recent blog post by Sam Carpenter, author of Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making…
Read MoreReengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery Jim Champy and Harry Greenspun FT Press/Pearson (2010) A brilliant analysis of a “new paradigm” of networked health care It is difficult for me to believe that almost two…
Read MoreUnleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance Larry Downes and Chunka Mui Harvard Business Press (1998) In this book, Downes and Mui provide a brilliant analysis of how “a new good or service that establishes an entirely new…
Read MoreThe Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces That Givern Life and Business in the Digital Age Larry Downes Basic Books (2009) In The Laws of Disruption, Downes asserts that there are three laws of digital life. Together, they comprise…
Read MoreDownes is a consultant and speaker on developing business strategies in an age of constant disruption caused by information technology. He is co-author with Chunka Mui of the Business Week and New York Times business bestseller, Unleashing the Killer…
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The McKinsey Quarterly’s Top Ten: Second Quarter 2011
In case you missed them, see which articles have been most popular with The McKinsey Quarterly‘s readers in the second quarter of this year. Here are the first five. To learn which articles ranked #6-10, read any/all of…
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