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Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Things Done Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton with Anthony Gostick Harper Business (May 2021) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.”…
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Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life Hal Gregersen Harper Business (November 2018) If you want better answers, you must ask better questions In his predictably brilliant Foreword, Ed Catmull asks:…
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In Essentialism, Greg McKeown explains how to develop “the disciplined pursuit of less.” Obviously, he agrees with Albert Einstein: “Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.” I agree with McKeown: “There are three deeply entrenched assumptions we must…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tim Leberecht for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…
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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work Liz Wiseman Harper Business (2014) Quaerere Eruditionem: Always “Seek Learning” In her previously published books, Liz Wiseman shares her thoughts about the power of multiplication, a force that…
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Here is an excerpt from another oytstanding article that appears in strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. In it, Donald Sull shares his insights concerning how and why market anomalies and incongruities may point the way to the next…
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Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey A. Moore Harper Business (1991) In my opinion, Crossing the Chasm (1991) and Inside the Tornado (1995) are most valuable when read in combination. In fact, I strongly recommend that they be read at least once…
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In Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible co-authored with John David Mann and published by Harper Business, Daniel Burrus discusses a skill that uses “the data of your five sense, as well as that intuitive…
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Power: Why Some People Have It – and Others Don’t Jeffrey Pfeffer Harper Business (2010) Although Pfeffer does not invoke the core metaphor from Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” in The Republic, I think it is especially relevant to the…
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Ed Catmull on how to take the creative efforts of groups much further
In the Foreword to Questions Are the Answer, Ed Catmull asks a few: What if “we valued the answers we arrive at mainly because of all the new and better questions they lead us to? Put another way, what if instead of seeing questions…
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