“the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom”
What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Comoetition, and Unstoppable Innovation Gary Hamel Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why knowing and doing what matters NOW will create an organization “fit for the future…
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Charles S. Jacobs is founder and managing partner of 180 Partners, and the author of Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science. For over two decades, he has helped the leadership of corporations around the world improve the performance of…
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Business at the Speed of Now: Fire Up Your People, Thrill your Customers, and Crush Your Competition John M. Bernard John Wiley & Sons (2012) Principles and practices to ensure that organizations move faster as well as be more productive…
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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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Leading 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…
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The 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…
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The Trendmaster’s Guide: Get a Jump on What Your Customer Wants Next Robyn Waters Portfolio/Penguin Group (2005) Don’t be fooled by this book’s diminutive size and brief length. The content is rock-solid and thought-provoking. Waters’ suggestions and recommendations are eminently…
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Open 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…
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The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Defeating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization Thomas Kelley with Jonathan Littman Doubleday (2005) I recently re-read two books written by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman, this one and…
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Open 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…
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