Thursday, June 27, 2013

Decisive

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My weekly book post on the s+b blogs is about the Heath brothers' new book, Decisive : Smarter Executive Decision Making Is Within...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

American Turnaround

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My s trategy+business blog post this week is on Ed Whitacre's management memoir: AT&T from Apples to iPhones My grandfather ...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Story of My People

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I've been neglecting my blogging responsibilities lately. Too much work, too little time. But starting last week, part of that work incl...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Chandler on the detective story

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Since I have a longstanding reading jones for mysteries of every kind, I really enjoyed Raymond Chandler's take on the genre, "Th...
Friday, March 1, 2013

Vonnegut on writing well

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Who says ads are a waste of time? Well, I usually do, but then I came across an International Paper Company ad from the early '80s. ...
Friday, February 22, 2013

How to alienate a country

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Have you seen the letter that Titan International CEO Morry Taylor - who so delights in his nickname "The Grizz" that he feature...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

s+b's Best Business Books 2012

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The annual Best Business Books special section is now online at strategy+business . We've got a great team of expert essayists, who ch...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Killer quotes #2

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    "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject" --attributed to Winston Churchill  ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Journalistic objectivity?

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I started browsing an advance copy of a new book - Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 - that collec...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

The Dalai Lama came to town

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I was lucky to get a chance to see the 14th Dalai Lama just down the street at the College of William & Mary yesterday. He gave a terr...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Spring training tips

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In 2006, the St. Louis Cardinals hired Jason Selk as its first Director of Mental Training. The team had pitching, batting, and fielding co...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Approaching thought leadership

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One of the major benefits of working as a senior editor for Booz & Company's strategy+business is the opportunity to work with its ...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Isaacson's Jobs

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Everybody has reviewed Walter Isaacson's bio Steve Jobs and rightly so - it's a terrific book about a highly successful businessman...
Friday, November 25, 2011

s+b's Best Business Books 2011

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The annual Best Business Books special section ( read or download it here ) was published by strategy+business this week. I edited the 7 es...

Be Our Guest - 10th Anniversary Edition

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Here's a brief article from D23, the Disney Fan Club , announcing the publication of the revised and expanded edition of Be Our Guest e...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

Bottling customer experience

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For a couple of years now, I've been editing a monthly feature on the strategy+business website named Author's Choice , in which on...
Friday, May 27, 2011

MacArthur in The Washington Post

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It was cool to see No Substitute for Victory pop up in The Washington Post's "On Leadership" blog . They published the fol...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Orwell on writing

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George Orwell - author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four , you know the guy - took on the doublespeak that passes for political pros...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

SPC and healthcare

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I think Atul Gawande , surgeon, New Yorker staff writer, MacArthur Award winner, etc., etc., is the best healthcare writer around for two re...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Beauty and the beast

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Tina Brown's Newsweek has an interesting new back page feature -- a guest column called My Favorite Mistake . It's probably going t...