“the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom”
Leigh Branham is Principal and Founder of Keeping the People, Inc., Overland Park, Kansas. Leigh has been researching and speaking about best practices in employee engagement and retention since 1995. He helps companies analyze the root causes of employee disengagement…
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Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and Strategy Daniel Denison, Robert Hooijberg, Nancy Lane, and Colleen Lief Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) Why and how both culture and strategy must be aligned and integrated throughout any organizational change process…
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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success William N. Thorndike, Jr. Harvard Business Review Press (2012) Whatever got an organization here probably won’t get it there There are countless examples of once-great companies such as…
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Adaptability: The Art of Winning in an Age of Uncertainty Max Mckeown KoganPage (2012) “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to…
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Previously, Kevin Allen spent two decades at the top of advertising giants McCann-Erickson, the Interpublic Group, and Lowe Worldwide. He is now CEO and founder of a London-based business transformation company, re:kap, and globally recognised as one of the advertising industry’s most accomplished growth professionals. The…
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Ken Segall worked closely with Steve Jobs as his ad agency creative director for over 12 years spanning NeXT and Apple. He led the advertising team behind the “Think different” campaign that helped revitalize the Apple brand when Steve returned from exile…
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Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions Into Great Performance Rodger Dean Duncan Maxwell Stone Publishing (2012) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Frankly, I did not know quite what to expect as I began to read this book.…
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The Rebel Entrepreneur: Rewriting the Business Rule Book Jonathan Moules Kogan-Page (2012) How and why rebel entrepreneurs “create the real growth drivers of an economy” Rebels are iconoclasts, mavericks, outliers, etc. By nature, their thinking and initiatives are unconventional, unorthodox, and quite often disruptive…
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Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto Adam Werbach Harvard Business Press (2009) Note: I recently re-read this book and learned even more of value this time. As Werbach explains in the Introduction, all companies have the opportunity to formulate and…
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The four most common forms of really dumb thinking
Opinions vary about which forms are the most common and many of those opinions offer excellent examples of dumb thinking. The opinions I now share are those of several thinkers whom I personally admire. They include Plato, Aristotle, St. Paul,…
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