Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Why? What if? How?

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My weekly post on s+b's blog is about a new book on the questions that drive innovation by Warren Berger: Innovation Begins with Thre...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Killer quotes #6

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"There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The d'oh of healthcare reform

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In which I publicly complain about healthcare reform on s+b's blog for the first and last time: The Long Road to U.S. Healthcare Ref...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Kotter and McGrath on management structures for change

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In my weekly book post for s+b's blog , both John Kotter and Rita Gunther McGrath argue that change will inevitably overwhelm hierarchic...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

"The most insightful management training film ever made"

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My weekly book post on s+b's blog is up: The Freaky Friday Management Technique Ben Horowitz’s first book, The Hard Thing about H...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Be Our Guest Q&A

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Adriana Dunn over at StellaService's  happycustomer blog  kindly invited me to do a Q&A on Be Our Guest . Here it is: Book of th...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

What doesn't work for women at work

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My weekly book post on s+b's blogs is up today: Outing Gender Bias I’ve never had any problems with women in the workplace. In fact,...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Corporate naming gaffes--BP

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On Wednesday, I interviewed Christine Bader . She's written a personal and wonderfully nuanced book that explores the challenges that pe...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Is investigative journalism dying out?

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My weekly book post on s+b's blog covers two books--one that bemoans the dearth of muckrakers and one by a muckraker Muckraking Is Al...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Zachary Shore on getting a sense of the enemy

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My Q&A with professor Zach Shore for strategy+business was published today: Zachary Shore on How to Predict the Future A historian’s a...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The ROI on mega sporting events isn't Olympian

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My weekly book post on the s+b blogs wonders how Russia will benefit from hosting the Winter Olympics. A Sucker’s Bet in Sochi Truth be t...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Strategy when competitive advantage is unsustainable

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My Q&A with Rita Gunther McGrath has been published in strategy+business : The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath The Co...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

A love affair with stuff

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My weekly book post on s+b's blogs explains why consultant and author Tim Halloran thinks it’s time to inject some romance into brand ...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Decoding employee performance

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My weekly book post on s+b's blogs covers The Decoded Company , which argues that it’s time to know your employees better than your cu...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Ditch the pitch

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My weekly blog post on s+b explores improvisation as a sales tool, as described in a new book by Steve Yastrow: Improvisational Selling ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Capitalism's dotage

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My weekly book post on s+b's blog covers a book that suggests that business as usual wont be an option much longer: Fiddling at Davo...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Dennis Kozlowski's bum rap?

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My weekly post on the s+b blogs is about former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski, who paid an unjustly high price for the crime of losing perspecti...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

The 7 best books Bill Gates read last year

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Bill Gates (he's looking good, isn't he?) published a list of the seven best books he read in 2013 . No fiction and heavy on the uni...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

A study guide for wannabe thought leaders

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My first weekly book post on s+b blogs for the new year covers two new books about thought leadership: New Year’s Resolution: Become a T...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Corporate partnering like a pro

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My weekly book post on s+b blogs is about BP executive Luc Bardin's new book on creating partnerships capable of delivering transformat...