“Vision without execution is hallucination”
The Lenovo Way: Managing a Diverse Global Company for Optimal Performance Gina Qiao and Yolanda Conyers McGraw-Hill (2014) “Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.” Peter Drucker Gina Qiao and Yolanda Conyers have played major roles during…
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Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags Linda Rottenberg Portfolio/Penguin “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses Most people are caught up in what James O’Toole so aptly characterizes as…
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Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy Paul B. Brown with Charles F. Kiefer and Leonard A. Schlesinger AMACOM (2012) Here’s an “owner’s manual for having a more successful life” on the…
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According to Michael Marquardt in Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask (Second Edition), asking the right questions is one of the most important — and yet most under-appreciated — skills that executives…
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Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness Frederic Laloux Nelson Parker (2014) How and why to create, develop, and sustain “a more soulful, purposeful, and productive workplace” Recent and extensive research on…
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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company and Revolutionized an Industry Marc Benioff Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2009) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison It’s always interesting as well as instructive to…
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The Wisdom of Titans: Secrets of Success from Entrepreneurs Who Rose to the Top William Ferguson bibliomotion books + media (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison According to William Ferguson, “After interviewing the eleven titans for this book,…
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Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble St. Martin’s Press (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison According to Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, “The most important message in Beyond the…
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Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble St. Martin’s Press (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison According to Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, “The most important message in Beyond the…
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Walter Isaacson: “Some Lessons from the Journey of Innovation (1843-2011)”
I have just read and will soon review Walter Isaacson‘s latest book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. In my opinion, it is his most valuable book, thus far. In the final…
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