“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all”
Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done Art Markman A Perigee Book/Penguin Group (2012) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter…
Read MoreKaren Wright is an executive coach, author, speaker and consultant. She has an MBA in Marketing from the Ivey Business School and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Western University. She graduated from the world’s leading coach training organization, was one of the inaugural students in its affiliated…
Read MoreGetting Innovation Right: How Leaders Leverage Inflection Points to Drive Success Seth Kahan Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker Those who…
Read MoreSimon Pont is a writer, commentator and brand-builder. Hollywood movie studios, Icelandic investment banks, British chocolate bars and Middle Eastern airlines figure amongst his time on the inside of Adland. He is the author of The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention…
Read MoreRich Horwath helps people live strategically — to get more out of their business and more out of their lives. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best selling author on strategy. As the CEO of the…
Read MoreKnow What You Don’t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen Michael Roberto Pearson Prentice Hall (2009) “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It’s that they can’t see the problem.” Michael Roberto cites this especially relevant…
Read MoreBusiness Basics: Prepare Yourself, Add Customers, Cut Costs, and Eliminate Investments for You and Your Stakeholders Donald Mitchell 400 Year Project Press (2012) A cohesive, comprehensive, and cost-effective “game plan” for achieving and then sustaining peak performance Note: I read…
Read MoreJohn Daly is the Liddell Professor of Communication and TCB Professor of Management at The University of Texas at Austin. While at the university, he has won every major award given on campus for undergraduate teaching. Daly has been the…
Read MoreDave Horsager is an author, business strategist, and keynote speaker. Through his book, The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line, and programs he shares the secrets of using trust to impact the…
Read MoreToby Lester is a journalist, an editor, and an independent scholar. In addition to writing books, he is a longtime contributor to The Atlantic, for whom he has written extensively, on such topics as the reconstruction of ancient Greek music,…
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