Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Four book recommendations from Guy Kawasaki

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My new book post on s+b is up today: Guy Kawasaki’s Required Reading   If you’re old enough to remember Apple 1.0, you surely reme...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Four-star leadership

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My latest book post on s+b is about one of the US Navy's most unlikely leaders: Leading, the Rickover Way   On December 3, 1989...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

We're all Gen Z

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My latest book post on s+b is up: Stop Managing Generational Diversity   Maybe it’s time to to pull the plug on the idea of managin...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

A hotbath of creativity?

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See the full infographic here on harveywatersofteners.co.uk
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The Kinect Way of Partnering

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My new book post is up at s +b : Give-to-Get Corporate Partnering   In late 2010, Microsoft introduced Kinect, a motion-sensing dev...
Monday, January 5, 2015

Zombie Marketing 101

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My latest book post on s+b is here: Zombify Your Customers These days, zombies are everywhere. They’ve become so commonplace that th...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

A robot ate my job

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My latest book post on the strategy+business blog is up: Automation’s Adverse Effects   Nicholas Carr is an every-silver-cloud-h...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Raises by the pound?

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My latest s+b book post : Improving Employee Well-Being by Default   Companies are instituting all sorts of health programs aimed at...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Fast, simple, cheap experimentation

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My latest book post on strategy+business : How to Avoid Bad Investments in Good Ideas   In late 1999, while it was still the 800-lb ...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Of invisible hands and impartial spectators

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My new book post is up on strategy+business : Adam Smith’s Other Book Adam Smith’s use of the metaphor “an invisible hand” to suggest...
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

s+b's Best Business Books 2014

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It’s striking how quickly and directly the seven reviewers in our 14th annual best business books special section get down to brass tacks. ...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Killer quotes #11

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      "Long live freedom and damn the ideologies"   -- Robinson Jeffers    
Thursday, October 30, 2014

The joke's on Richard Branson

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My new book post is up on strategy+business : The Virgin Chronicles   It wouldn’t surprise me to look up “entrepreneur” in the dicti...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Killer quotes #10

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"Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

The best sales book of 2014

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My new book post on s+b's website is up: Reframing Sales Effectiveness I’m calling it early: Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choi...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Mia Farrow's army

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My new book post on strategy+business : The Price of Privatizing War My experience with mercenaries extends about as far as Abbott and...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Killer quotes #9

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"They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I say: Why take the chance?"      --Ronald Reagan
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

A foxy approach to global sustainability

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My latest book post on s+b : The Business Approach to Climate Change We’ve been cautioned—and often berated—about the unsustainable n...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Virtual markets aren't flat

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My latest book post is up on s +b : Location, Location, Location As I recall, the Internet was supposed to render location irrelevant....
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Three core concepts for social media

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My latest blog post on s+b : Seeking Social Failures The business shelves are crowded with books on how to promote ourselves and our comp...