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There’s good news and bad news. First the bad news: “The tide of bullshit is rising.” I agree with Josh Bernoff, conceding that I have contributed to that elevation, to that tsunami of linguistic dung. However, there is also good…
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Here is a brief article featured at the Big Think website. To check out all the other resources and learn more about Big Think, please click here. * * * Negotiating is hard, and it’s even harder when there is…
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The Power of Peers: How the Company You Keep Drives Leadership, Growth, and Success Leon Shapiro and Leo Bottary Bibliomotion (2016) “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 (Act III, Scene 1) Results of…
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In Play Bigger (HarperBusiness, June 2016), Al Ramadan, Dave Petterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney explain how and why “pirates, dreamers, and innovators create and dominate markets.” Category design is one of the key concepts that they examine. What is it?…
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Opinions vary as to what defines a “classic” business book. My own opinion is that it offers insights and counsel that are of timeless value. To paraphrase Bernard of Chartres, a 12th century monk, they are those upon whose shoulders…
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Opinions vary as to what defines a “classic” business book. My own opinion is that it offers insights and counsel that are of timeless value. To paraphrase Bernard of Chartres, a 12th century monk, their authors are the shoulders upon…
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Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979. Prior to Stanford, Pfeffer taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University…
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The Power of Fifty Bits: The New Science of Turning Good Intentions into Positive Results Bob Nease HarperBusiness (January 2016) What the “intent/behavior gap” is and how to minimize it, if not eliminate it Bob Nease is on to something.…
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Some see benefits for many kinds of workers, others see a raw deal for most. In an article for The Wall Street Journal, Rachel Botsman explains how and why different kinds of workers derive different benefits in the new workplace.…
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Clay Christensen on how to replace the “tired paradigm” of “playing the odds” with a theory that explains “how things work.”
In Clay Christensen’s latest book, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice (published by HarperBusiness, October 2016), written with Toddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David Duncan, he asserts that “the foundation of [his and his collaborators’] thinking…
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