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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson HarperBusiness (October 2018) How smarter choices can avoid or eliminate chaos in the workplace This is Jason Fried and David Heinemeier’s fourth collaboration on a book…
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Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up Jerry Colonna HarperBusiness (June 2019) If you don’t care abut knowing who you really are, why should anyone else? In his classic work, Denial of Death, Ernest Becker acknowledges that everyone dies…
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In What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture, Ben Horowitz shares this anecdote from his years with the Netscape organization. After Jim Barksdale became the new CEO, he introduced his way of thinking this…
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Unstoppable Teams: The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership Alden Mills HarperBusiness (March 2019) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb According to Margaret Mead, we should never doubt…
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Streampunks: YouTube and the Rebels Remaking Media Robert Kyncl with Maany Peyvan HarperBusiness (September 2017) How and why “attention is the currency of the digital age” Written by Robert Kyncl with Maany Peyvan, this book provides an authoritative examination of…
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The last time I checked, Amazon US sells 9,369 volumes whose authors discuss great leadership. Four of the best were written or co-authored by Jim Collins. As Collins explains in Good to Great, Level 5 leaders are those “who lead…
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In the 50th anniversary edition of The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker shares his thoughts about what makes an executive effective. As he explains, “An effective executive does [begin] not [end] need to be a leader in the sense what the…
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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Peter F. Drucker HarperBusiness (January 2017) How and why, “like every other discipline, effectiveness can be learned and must be earned” This is the 50th anniversary edition of…
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Jim Collins provides the Foreword to the 50th anniversary edition of Peter Drucker’s classic, The Effective Executive, a book first published in 1967. Consider this passage: “Here are ten lessons I learned from Peter Drucker and this book, and that…
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Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson on Warfare Metaphors
Over the years in numerous posts, I have referred to Sun Tzu’s Art of War and von Causwitz’s On War, suggesting correlations between the battlefield and the marketplace. Both authors hated war because they had wide and deep experience with…
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