The Economist

Lincoln and leadership

January 30, 2016

A recent Schumpeter column published in The Economist, “Lincoln and leadership,” explains how and why outsiders can make the best leaders — and also the worst. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * IN MAY 1860…

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Michael J. Silverstein: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

December 4, 2015

Michael J. Silverstein is a leader of The Boston Consulting Group’s global consumer practice. He specializes in helping the senior team at large multinationals transform their companies through superior consumer insight, accelerated organic growth, and M&A. His clients include some…

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Michael J. Silverstein: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

November 28, 2015

Michael J. Silverstein is a leader of The Boston Consulting Group’s global consumer practice. He specializes in helping the senior team at large multinationals transform their companies through superior consumer insight, accelerated organic growth, and M&A. His clients include some…

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Introducing Jennifer Aaker

June 22, 2015

A social psychologist and marketer, Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Her research spans time, money and happiness. She focuses on questions such as: What actually makes people happy, as…

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The Dawn of Next Generation Thinkers

May 11, 2015

Here is an excerpt from a recent blog post co-authored by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer for the Thinkers50 website. To read the complete article, check out the abundance of resources, and sign up for email alerts, please click here.…

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Twilight of the gurus

May 4, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from the Schumpeter column featured in The Economist. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration credit: Brett Ryder * * * The management-pundit industry is a…

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Andreas Kluth on “The Catastrophe of Success”

March 6, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andreas Kluth for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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Elements of a Good Story

January 25, 2015

In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Hermina Ibarra explains that all great stories, from Antigone to Casablanca to Star Wars, derive their power from a beginning-middle-end end story structure and these other basic characteristics: A protagonist: The…

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Philosopher kings: Why and how business leaders would benefit from studying great writers

October 10, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article from The Economist in which the benefits of inward-bound learning are examined. For more than 20 years, I have been retained by corporate clients to conduct what I characterize as “brown bag…

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Carl Honoré: “In praise of slowness”

July 5, 2014

Journalist Carl Honoré believes the Western world’s emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there’s a backlash brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes on their all-too-modern lives. “By slowing down at the right moments,…

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