Warren Bennis
The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel Rasmussen Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How and why the human sciences address “the reality of people’s lives at their most complex…and…
Read MoreLeft Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions Phil Rosenzweig PublicAffairs (2014) Why understanding the decision making process as well as the roles of action and analysis “can improve the odds of success” As I began to read this…
Read MoreThe Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (2013) A brilliant response to the “enduring questions of responsible leadership” in the market-driven world in which we live and work Many years ago,…
Read MoreOut Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes G. Shawn Hunter Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) How and why innovative leadership must “leverage a culture that will stop at nothing to fix bad ideas and stomp out mediocrity Shawn Hunter wrote…
Read MoreI am an incurable collector of quotations and now share another group, most of which are new to me. o “I can’t recall a time that was as volatile, complex, ambiguous, and tumultuous. As one successful executive put it, ‘If…
Read MoreHere is a guest article by Lina Echeverría who spent twenty-five years inspiring creativity and accelerating innovation at Corning Incorporated, one of America’s leading technology companies. She led teams of scientists and researchers at Corning that developed everything from the…
Read MoreThe Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think Michael E. Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed Portfolio/Penguin Group (2013) The paradox of exceptional organizational performance: Do not be an exception to three rules With rare exception, the best business books are research/evidence-driven and…
Read MoreSmart 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…
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“There is not all that much new in the best [business] books.”
In a recent post for the First Friday Book Synopsis website, Randy Mayeux observes: “I’ve read business books for decades, and presented synopses of many of them for nearly 16 full years. You know what? There is not all that…
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