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First Friday Book Synopsis
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
In “The Bell Curve,” an article written for The New Yorker (December 6, 2004), Atul Gawande uses the term “positive deviant” to describe unusually effective performers in the field of medicine. In fact, there are outliers in all fields. To Gawande, it is highly advisable to study outliers and learn from them to improve our own [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
MARCH 6, 2011
As all supervisors already know, employees can be either positively or negatively engaged. The former are evangelists; the later are subversives. The challenge is to develop and then retain the number of evangelists. The Container Store is among very few companies that know the answer. It continues to hire at each of its 47 [.].
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First Friday Book Synopsis
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Douglas R. Conant for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * Have you ever noticed how a pat [.]
First Friday Book Synopsis
JANUARY 25, 2011
Here is an article posted by “Virtual Anja” at the Yellow Umbrella News website. * * * Welcoming your new employees on their first day is all about recognizing how they might feel – by putting yourself in their shoes, remembering the positive or negative aspects of your own first days – and using that [.]
First Friday Book Synopsis
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
{I presented my synopsis of Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg yesterday at the Urban Engagement Book Club, sponsored by CitySquare. This book club deals with issues of social justice, poverty, equality. Lean In was a good choice. This post is prompted by the after-synopsis discussion}. Even in places where equality seems to be taken seriously, […].
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 7, 2014
When I am reading a book, some quotes just jump out at me. Like this one, from Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, in their new book The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know: Women, for example, according to years of corporate research, tend to have other priorities beyond profit and earnings […].
First Friday Book Synopsis
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
{I presented my synopsis of Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg yesterday at the Urban Engagement Book Club, sponsored by CitySquare. This book club deals with issues of social justice, poverty, equality. Lean In was a good choice. This post is prompted by the after-synopsis discussion}. Even in places where equality seems to be taken seriously, […].
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