Anders Ericsson
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Carol S. Dweck Ballantine Books (2008) How to achieve sustainable growth of intellectual capabilities with the right mindset I read this book when it was first published (2006) and recently re-read it before reading Daniel Siegel’s Mindsight: The…
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Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, and Katie Yezzi Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why “practice doesn’t make perfect, practice makes permanent” For several decades, Anders Ericsson and his associates at Florida…
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The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills Daniel Coyle Bantam Books/A Random House imprint (2012) Lessons learned from “hotbeds” of creativity about how best to develop talents to their full potential For more than 20 years,…
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Surviving the Serengeti: 7 Skills To Master Business and Life Stefan Swanepoel John Wiley & Sons (2011) A parable for success that sometimes requires a perilous journey of self-discovery Fables may well be among the earliest forms of storytelling and…
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Hansen is a professor at University of California, Berkeley, and at INSEAD, France. He was previously a professor at Harvard Business School for a number of years. Prior to joining Harvard University, Hansen obtained his Ph.D. from the business school…
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Daniel Coyle is a contributing editor for Outside magazine and the author of three books, including the New York Times bestseller Lance Armstrong’s War. He has written for Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Magazine, and Play (including this March 2007 cover story which sparked The Talent Code), and is a two-time National…
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Cirque du Soleil: The Spark – Igniting the Creative Fire that Lives within Us All Created by Lyn Heward and written by John U. Bacon Doubleday (2006) “From a tiny spark a great fire was kindled and its flames warmed…
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Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Yourself Alan M. Webber HarperBusiness/HarperCollins (2009) Entertaining as well as informative results from world-class mulling Thus book is as difficult to describe as it is easy to appreciate. What…
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John Medina is a developmental molecular biologist focused on the genes involved in human brain development and the genetics of psychiatric disorders. He has spent most of his professional life as a private research consultant, working primarily in the biotechnology…
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Malcolm Gladwell’s latest contribution
I highly recommend the current issue of The New Yorker (May 16, 2011) that includes Malcolm Gladwell’s article, “Creation Myth,” his latest contribution to the “Annals of Business” series. Gladwell is a brilliant journalist but hardly an original business thinker.…
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