Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives — How Your Friends’ Friends’ Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company (2011) How…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Tim Ferriss by Ariston Anderson for the website of 99U: Insights on making ideas happen by Bēhance. To read the complete interview, check out other resources, and learn more about 99U,…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Brad Stone for Bloomberg Businessweek. He spoke to hundreds of current and former employees, as well as friends and family of founder Jeff Bezos, to discover the poignant story of…
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Here is a recent post by Freek Vermeulen for the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * *…
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The Innovation Expedition: A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation Gijs van Wulfen provides BIS Publishers (2013) Just about everything you need to know about how to establish and then sustain an innovation culture By the time I began to read…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Ken Perlman for Forbes magazine. He is a devoted father of two girls and believes that many of the lessons learned in fatherhood apply, on a certain level, to teaching clients…
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Here is an excerpt from an extended interview of Tim Cook by Sam Grobart for Bloomberg Businessweek. As Grobart explains, “For this week’s cover story on Apple (AAPL) and its future, I spent some time with Tim Cook, who said…
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Here is a classic essay by Jennifer Jacquet for Scientific American magazine (October 26, 2011) in which she discusses Robert Trivers’ then latest book, The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. To read the…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an especially timely article by Josh Bersin for LinkedIn. He observes, “I can tell the economy is recovering: we’re suddenly seeing companies tell us that ’employee retention’ has become a critical issue. Let me…
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Doug Conant: Why These Are My Favorite Leadership Books
Thinking about giving books as holiday gifts? Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Doug Conant for LinkedIn during which he discusses seven of his favorite books about leadership. To read the complete article and check out others,…
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