James O’Toole
Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right Mary C. Gentile Yale University Press; First Edition edition (August 24, 2010) How to express your values more eloquently and act upon them more effectively As…
Read MoreLeading Change: The Argument for Values-Based Leadership James O’Toole Ballantine Books (1995) “Why aren’t they following me?” It is extremely difficult to overcome what James O’Toole calls “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.” In Leading Change O’Toole…
Read MoreThe Executive’s Compass: Business and the Good Society James O’Toole Oxford University Press (1995) “The Great Conversation Across the Centuries” More than 50 years ago, Walter Paepcke founded the Aspen Institute and entrusted to Mortimer Adler the responsibility for devising…
Read MoreOpen Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape Henry Chesbrough Harvard Business Press (2006) I nnovation requires an open mind…and the courage to challenge “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.” In preparation for my…
Read MoreOpen Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology Henry Chesbrough Harvard Business Press (2003) A “new vision” of the innovation process In preparation for my second interview of Henry Chesbrough, I recently re-read his Open Business Models…
Read MoreThe Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor Harvard Business Press (2003) Note: I read and then reviewed this “business classic” when it was first published and recently re-read it. I am even…
Read MoreThe Essential Bennis Warren Bennis with Patricia Ward Biederman Jossey-Bass (2009) The pre-eminent leader of leadership studies I have read and reviewed all of Warren Bennis’ books and read most of his articles. Therefore, I was especially eager to examine…
Read MoreThe Future of Management Gary Hamel with Bill Breen Harvard Business School Press (2007) With all due respect to today’s business bestsellers, most of the best books have already been written on the most important subjects. Case in point: This…
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