article thumbnail

Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

B LACKSTONE chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen Schwarzman has written a book about the potential that can be realized when you combine personal responsibility with ambition. This is where he really learned about finance and discovered his strengths. Here are 25 more rules for work and life that are woven throughout his book: 1.

Open-book 213
article thumbnail

Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I tend to agree with most of Michael’s positions (except when he left my book off his list) and find his business logic to be solidly grounded. I did notice two missing blogs: Positive Organizational Behavior at [link]. You can follow Michael on Twitter @LeadershipNow. And LeaderLab at [link].

Blog 411
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

I've just finished reading Jim Collins' latest book, Great By Choice (which he co-authored with Morten Hansen). It's hard to put down a Collins book feeling anything but.well, inspired. In a series of books starting with Built to Last , Collins has addressed every manager's ultimate anxiety: performance. You can do it, he says.

Porter 15
article thumbnail

What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). After the book was published, Dudley got in touch. Compensation Ethics Finance' I made recommendations on how to improve regulation.

article thumbnail

How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business Review

It’s much more than just an “episodic moment” of frustration or “a particularly gruesome work project” that depletes you, says Gianpiero Petriglieri, associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD. Finances were a consideration. ” Here’s how. .

Career 13
article thumbnail

Lessons from the Three Cups of Tea Controversy

Harvard Business Review

Tools are necessary but not sufficient for behavior change. schools, books) is almost never sufficient to create behavior change, no matter how well-intentioned or logical it seems. Any manager who has ever tried to shift organizational behaviors by rolling out a new piece of software knows this well.

Metrics 12
article thumbnail

Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business Review

My corporate finance colleague Alex Edmans has also systematically examined the impact of intangible resources on firm performance. The conclusion of this stream of research is that these resources are usually intangible and community based, such as relationships , trust , culture , identity , or knowledge sharing.

Sports 8