James O’Toole
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies and which owns and produces CES® – The Global Stage for Innovation. Shapiro directs a staff of…
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Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of Your Company’s Future Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel, and Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Harvard Business Review Press (November 2018) How to use a human-centered process to avoid or overcome key bottlenecks to organizational change In…
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Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices That Will Make or Break Your Company Tiffani Bova Portfolio/Penguin (August 2018) How to achieve and then sustain “countercyclical” and profitable growth Not all growth is progress, of course, and Tiffani Bova obviously understands…
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Joseph Conrad is arguably the greatest author for whom English was a second language. His novels and short stories continue to be read and praised throughout the world. Although it was not his intention, he often expressed thoughts that offer…
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The Hard Break: The Case For The 24/6 Lifestyle Aaron Edelheit IdeaPress Publishing (May 2018) “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” Warren Buffett I selected the Buffett observation to…
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Build an A Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve Whitney Johnson Harvard Business School Press (May 2018) “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”…
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“The number one reason for organizational success or failure is the ability to stay relevant. Having the wherewithal to strategically shift ahead of accelerating marketplace changes is the single most critical skillset an organization can possess.” Allen Adamson is a…
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Detonate: Why – and How – Corporations Must Blow Up Best Practices (and bring a beginner’s mind) to Survive Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach John Wiley & Sons (May 2018) “If your horse is dead, get off.” Lakota tribal wisdom…
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Unsafe Thinking: How to be Nimble and Bold When You Need It Most Jonah Sachs De Capo Lifelong Books/Hachette Book Group (April 2014) How and why “if you’re nervous, that’s a good spot to be in.” Jason Klein Long ago,…
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“The ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” James O’Toole
O’Toole refers to what he considers to be the strongest resistance to change initiatives. It is cultural in nature and easily understandable, given the fact that those who defend the current status quo were probably involved in replacing the previous…
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