“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all”
Management in 10 Words: Practical Advice from the Man Who Created One of the World’s Great Retailers Terry Leahy Crown Business (2012) Whatever the “talk,” it must be “walked” to have any credibility. The most substantial benefit from this book is…
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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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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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The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker…
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Paul Leinwand is a Partner at Booz & Company based in the firm’s Chicago office. He advises organizations on the topic of strategy, growth, and capability building, with a focus on the consumer product and retail sectors. He also serves as chair of the…
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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Richard Rumelt Crown Business (2011) How and why a good strategy “acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcome them As the title of this review correctly indicates,…
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Deep Dive: The Proven Method for Building Strategy, Focusing Your Resources, and Taking Smart Action Rich Horwath Greenleaf Book Group Press (2009) Attitude and preparation determine altitude…and also depth There are business situations in which the goal is to ascend…
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StrengthsFinder 2.0 Tom Rath Gallup Press (2007) Note: One of my passions in life is to help promote and (yes) celebrate business books that are “classics,” those deserving far more attention than they currently receive. That is certainly true of…
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Now serving as chairman of Perot Systems’ consulting practice, Jim Champy is recognized throughout the world for his work on leadership and management issues and on organizational change and business reengineering. He is the author of several books that include…
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Different pwerspectuves on the Power of Elimination
Many years ago during an interview, Katherine Hepburn was asked the secret to the success of her career. “Elimination! I have eliminated everyone and everything from my life that interferes with what I want to do and how I want…
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