Albert Einstein
Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done Ron Ashkenas Harvard Business School Press (2009) “Make it as simple as possible…but no simpler.” Albert Einstein Ron Ashkenas is one of my intellectual heroes. I have read, reviewed, and…
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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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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Walter Isaacson 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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The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business Patrick Lencioni Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) The power of redundant “overcommunication” of what is most important to achieve and sustain organizational health After eight bestselling business fables, Patrick Lencioni has…
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Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence Erik Qualman McGraw-Hill (2012) How and why our digital footprints and shadows “constitute our permanent imprint on the world” As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of…
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Over the years, I have accumulated hundreds of quotations that caught my eye and am always on the alert for others previously unknown to me. Although the three that follow may be well-known to others, I was thrilled to encounter…
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In her recently published book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain examines the advantages and disadvantages of being primarily an introvert. As she explains, an introvert prefers one-on-one conversations to group activities;…
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The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct Francis P. Cholle Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How to “find solutions beyond the boundaries of what we know” “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind…
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Crown Publishers (2012) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions Throughout most of her…
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A baker’s dozen of delicious quotations
As you already know, there are endless uses for quotations. Here are thirteen that caught my eye. “When you have learned something, that always feels at first as if you’ve lost something.” H.G. Wells “What the mothers sings to the cradle goes all the…
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