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The Thank You Economy Gary Vaynerchuk HarperBusiness (2011) Business begins with making people feel appreciated…and goes nowhere unless they do In recent years, an avalanche of research data generated from marketplaces throughout the world reveals that when asked to identify…
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As any reader of Techmeme will know, there’s a wee bit of an investment bubble going on. People paying silly money for a piece of the Web 2.0 action. Facebook, Y Combinator, Huffington Post, the usual suspects. I’m not saying…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nilofer Merchant 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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Here is a recent blog post by Josh Linkner. He is among the members of a recently formed “Greek Chorus” of iconoclastic visionaries who are challenging business leaders to re-examine their assumptions and premises, indeed everything they think they know…
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The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life John Maeda The MIT Press (2006) Getting to “the other side of complexity Almost immediately after I began to read this book, I was reminded of two quotations, the first from Oliver…
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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. Delegation is both a critical skill that successful managers must demonstrate,…
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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 Dominic Orr (president and C.E.O. of Aruba…
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Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL Roger L. Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Why and how the core of business and capitalism must be restored Many years ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes is…
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon Rodale (2011) “Starbucks’ touchstones, the source of our pride” Howard Schultz In January 2008, chairman Howard Schultz resumed his roles as President and CEO…
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Don’t Be Afraid to Hire that Overqualified Candidate
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. For years, the prevailing wisdom on overqualified candidates was to avoid them. But…
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