Peter Weill
Optimizing Talent: What Every Leader and Manager Needs to Know to Sustain the Ultimate Workforce Linda D. Sharkey and Paul H. Eccher Information Age Publishing (2011) “Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”…
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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of…
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Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World’s Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Talent Marshall Goldsmith and Louis Carter, Co-Editors Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2009) Ultimately, the effectiveness of best practices depends on those who execute them As co-editors Marshall…
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Competing in a Flat World: Building Enterprises for a Borderless World Victor K. Fung, William K. Fung, and Jerry (Yoram) Wind Pearson/Prentice Hall (2007) This book offers still another example of a book that attracted little attention when published but…
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Design-Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean Roberto Verganti Harvard Business Press (2009) Does design drive innovation or does innovation drive design? The answer is “Yes.” The success of each approach depends almost entirely…
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Doing Both: Capturing Today’s Profit and Driving Tomorrow’s Growth Inder Sidhu FT Press/Pearson (2010) Organizational transformation is not — repeat not – a zero-sum game One of the most self-defeating mindsets is suggested by the admonition, “You can’t have your…
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Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David Robertson Harvard Business Press (2006) In their Preface, Ross, Weill, and Robertson suggest that, until now, research and executive education have failed to…
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Jeanne Ross earned a B.A., from the University of Illinois, an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D., from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research. Much of…
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Army of Entrepreneurs: Create an Engaged and Empowered Workforce for Exceptional Business Growth Jennifer Prosek AMACOM (2011) How to grow great gardeners The title of my review refers to what I believe is Jennifer Prosek’s key point in this book:…
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Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement William Duggan Columbia University Press (2007) How and why “a modern discipline” can activate “flashes of insight” in a results-driven organization There is much to be said for eliminating waste throughout an…
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