Today’s Leaders Are Tomorrow’s Followers
For some reason I’ve run into too many business leaders lately who know less and less about how their businesses are being marketed on the Internet. From owners and CEOs to vice presidents and general managers, leaders (even good ones) are getting further detached from the realities of what truly drives [...]
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New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – October 2009
Yawn… Eleven months and Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers continues to dominate the NY Times hardcover business best seller rankings. We love this book, and yet it still seems a little unbelievable that one book could remain on top of such a dynamic list for so long. [...]
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Keep Everyone Busy So You Can Kill Creativity
In the current economic climate (one that we’ve dubbed The Great Necession), it seems that companies are so concerned about productivity that they’re forgetting about innovation and creativity.
Whether we’re all trying to cover our asses as managers or whether we truly believe that micromanagement [...]
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New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – September 2009
Ten months and counting for Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers as it continues to dominate the NY Times best seller rankings. To read our review of this outstanding book, check out our July 2009 best seller rankings.
Though not showing the staying power of Gladwell yet, two authors [...]
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Leadership Decision Making and The Law of Unintended Consequences
Certainly you’ve heard the axioms “nothing happens in a vacuum” and “for every action there is a reaction” before. We’re pretty sure that every thinking adult not only understands these sayings, but also believes them to be true.
Cause and effect, means and ends, [...]
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For Young Managers, it’s not Just About Gaining the Respect of Subordinates
One of the most common questions from our readers concerns how they as younger managers can lead older subordinates – all while maintaining respect and sanity. Where we felt we could help, we’ve provided these youthful leaders advice and guidance as recently [...]
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What Business Leaders Can Learn from Obama’s Bad Week
Wow, what a week for the Leader of the Free World. Just as his something-for-nothing-health-care-plan was starting to lose steam on Capitol Hill, one of his friends breaks into his own home, gets lippy with a cop and gets arrested.
In his typical “you never [...]
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Low Hanging Fruit and the Cost of Perfection
Imagine a small airplane flying low over a crowd at a baseball game. The door of the plane opens and a smiling man appears with a large sack. He turns the sack over just as the plane flies over the bleachers and millions of dollars in [...]
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