The Opposable Mind
Us + Them: Tapping the Positive Power of Difference Todd L. Pittinsky Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why “the power of difference” can help us to replace negative “Us-and-Them” relations with positive ones As I began to read…
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Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Handbook: Helping Companies Realize the Full Value of Acquisitions Scott C. Whitaker John Wiley & Sons (2012) How to combine, consolidate, and integrate resources effectively Most mergers and acquisitions either fail or fall far short of…
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Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right Thomas H. Davenport and Brook Manville Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to take full and systematic advantage of technology and analytics to create deeper…
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Creative Thinkerin: Putting Your Imagination to Work Michael Michalko New World Library (2011) How and why conceptual blending of dissimilar subjects, ideas, and concepts is the most important factor in creative thinking Those who have read any of Michael Michalko’s previously…
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Seth Kahan is a change specialist, helping create the uptake and support for significant transformation. He has worked with executives and senior leaders on high-impact change at World Bank, Peace Corps, Shell, NASA, and 20+ organizations in the public and private…
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Chesbrough is Adjunct Professor, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Executive Director of its Center for Open Innovation. His landmark book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (2003) articulated a new paradigm for industrial research and development. His more recent…
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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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The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Edge Roger Martin Harvard Business Press (2009) I just re-read this book and value it even more now than I did when it was first published. One point I…
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The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking Roger L. Martin Harvard Business School Press (2007) As I began to read this brilliant book, I was reminded of what Doris Kearns reveals about Abraham Lincoln in Team of…
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The power of allophilia
In the Introduction to Crossing the Divide, published by Harvard University Press (2009), Todd L. Pittinsky explains that allophilia is “a term for positive feelings of kinship, comfort, affection, engagement, and enthusiasm concerning members of a group different from one’s…
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