Leading Blog
MAY 9, 2023
Richard Norton Smith’s extraordinary biography of Gerald Ford, An Ordinary Man , pulls together multiple perspectives to give essential insights into Ford’s thinking and leadership. By stressing individual contacts over ideological mandates, Ford defines leadership in transactional terms, constituent service on a grand scale.
Strategy Driven
JULY 13, 2011
Good performance measurement can help overcome the short- term bias of financial measures by explicitly monitoring how well a company or business unit is positioned to sustain and improve its financial performance. Short-term value drivers are the immediate levers of ROIC and growth. One dimension of this is the needed flows of talent.
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Six Disciplines
APRIL 27, 2011
Therefore, there is also a Six Disciplines company that was established to help companies long-term get established and maintain using this methodology.” Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). “Here’s what differentiates this book: it bridges concept and principles to execution.”
Harvard Business Review
JULY 25, 2014
I decided to test his claim by interviewing current and former C-suite executives, including Bob Crandall, former CEO of American Airlines; David Norton, former CMO of Harrah’s casinos; Will Ethridge, CEO of Pearson Education; and Pat O’Keefe, former CEO of Watts Water Technologies. So we worked extra hard to protect our key sales people.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 31, 2014
Choice architecture, a term used by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein in their 2008 book Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness , refers to the way in which people’s decisions can be influenced by how choices are presented to them. Let’s consider an example. Here’s how it works.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JANUARY 27, 2013
I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism Robert [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
MARCH 7, 2011
HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].
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