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Business at the Speed of Now: Fire Up Your People, Thrill your Customers, and Crush Your Competition John M. Bernard John Wiley & Sons (2012) Principles and practices to ensure that organizations move faster as well as be more productive…
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Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster (2011) Think differently about Think Different In my opinion, this is among the most important business biographies ever written. Given the number of other reviews that have already appeared, there really isn’t much…
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I agree with Albert Einstein that it is important to “make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” One of the best exercises for learning how to do that is what Mike Figliuolo introduces in his new book, One…
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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures Dan Roam Portfolio/Penguin (2009) I read the original (published in 2008) and then this second edition with increasing admiration. As I began to work my way through Dan…
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The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why disruptive innovators maximize creative impact As is true of others who have written business…
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Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Anna Pettersson and August Vlak for strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * …
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What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management Jeffrey Pfeffer Harvard Business Press (2007) According to Jeffrey Pfeffer, there seem to be three themes that unify many of the ideas he shares in this volume: “(1) the importance of considering…
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Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David Robertson Harvard Business Press (2006) In their Preface, Ross, Weill, and Robertson suggest that, until now, research and executive education have failed to…
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David Kord Murray is a former aerospace scientist, Fortune 500 executive, chief innovation officer of two major companies, inventor and software entrepreneur. He has made a living by coming up with new and innovative ideas. In Borrowing Brilliance, he explains…
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Different pwerspectuves on the Power of Elimination
Many years ago during an interview, Katherine Hepburn was asked the secret to the success of her career. “Elimination! I have eliminated everyone and everything from my life that interferes with what I want to do and how I want…
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