Reading, Writing re: Management

Occasional posts on business books, their authors and publishers, tidbits from my book and article research, quotes from interviews with experts and executives, and hopefully, not too much self-promotional bushwa.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Marina Gorbis's Required Reading: Human Nature and Networks

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strategy+business , December 7, 2017 by Theodore Kinni Marina Gorbis  has studied the future of just about everything. It’s her job. Sin...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

How to Get Off the Hook

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strategy+business , November 23, 2016 by Theodore Kinni The just-concluded presidential election has taught us Americans a lot abou...

Why Innovation Isn’t Enough

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MIT Sloan Management Review , November 23, 2016 by Theodore Kinni Artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchains, reusable rockets, self-d...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

TechSavvy: Is Your Company Winning the Race to Digital Transformation?

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MIT Sloan Management Review , November 10, 2016 by Theodore Kinni In some respects, the digitization of business is a pretty nebulous subje...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Margaret Heffernan’s Required Reading

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strategy+business , November 9, 2016 by Theodore Kinni By 2100, we are going to eradicate disease and colonize Mars . In a time when it can...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

How to Develop a Great Digital Strategy

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Learned a lot lending an editorial hand here: MIT Sloan Management Review , Winter 2017 by Jeanne W. Ross, Ina M. Sebastian, and Cynthia M. ...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

TechSavvy: How “Smart” Is Your R&D Spending?

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MIT Sloan Management Review , November 3, 2016 by Theodore Kinni Strategy&’s annual Global Innovation 1000 study , which examines the ...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Best Business Books 2016: Management

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strategy+business , Winter 2016 by Theodore Kinni It’s satisfying when corporate wrongdoing comes complete with a villain, preferably someon...
Monday, October 24, 2016

TechSavvy: Competing for Talent in the Platform Economy

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MIT Sloan Management Review , October 24, 2016 by Theodore Kinni Platforms are all the rage these days. Companies are being urged to create...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

TechSavvy: Beware the Paradox of Automation

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MIT Sloan Management Review , October 20, 2016 by Theodore Kinni Earlier this year, Facebook exorcised those pesky human editors who were in...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Can Conversation Supplant Bureaucracy?

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strategy+business , October 19, 2016 by Theodore Kinni In 2012, Catherine Turco became increasingly intrigued by what she saw as a ...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

TechSavvy: Why Digitization Won’t Put Operations Managers Out of Work

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MIT Sloan Management Review , October 13, 2016 by Theodore Kinni On Oct. 3, ING Group joined a growing number of big European banks when it...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Nilofer Merchant’s Required Reading

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strategy+business , October 12, 2016 by Theodore Kinni Nilofer Merchant knows something about value creation. By her reckoning, she has had...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Tech Savvy: Hacking Your Work-Life Balance

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MIT Sloan Management Review , October 6, 2016 by Theodore Kinni When I read CEO memoirs, I always keep an eye out for insights into how p...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

TechSavvy: That Sound You Hear Is Your Enterprise’s AI Technology

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MIT Sloan Management Review , Sept. 22, 2016 by Theodore Kinni Apple held its “Special Event” and, among other things, officially killed t...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

TechSavvy: Monitoring Your Employees’ Every Emotion

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MIT Sloan Management Review , September 15, 2016 by Theodore Kinni Have you heard about the Cowlar ? It’s a smart collar that dairy farmers...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Amy Edmondson’s Required Reading

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strategy+business , September 14, 2016 by Theodore Kinni Amy C. Edmondson’s abiding interest in teaming may well be rooted in her intri...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

TechSavvy: A Code of Ethics for Smart Machines

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MIT Sloan Management Review , September 8, 2016 by Theodore Kinni Smart machines need ethics, too: Remember that movie in which a computer a...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

TechSavvy: Every Company Is a Tech Company and Tech Is No Longer an Industry

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MIT Sloan Management Review , September 1, 2016 by Theodore Kinni If you’re competing on the uneven playing fields created by so-called tech...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

The “Jobs to Be Done” Theory of Innovation

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strategy+business , August 31, 2016 by Theodore Kinni Since 2005, Strategy& has been conducting an annual study of the 1,000 biggest co...
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A seasoned business writer and editor, I work with leading consultants, corporations and non-profits, across sectors and geographies, to craft compelling content. The kinds of writing and editing that I do: • Books. I have played an instrumental role in the creation of more than 20 business books, as a named author, ghostwriter or editor. • White papers and reports. I’ve ghostwritten and edited more than 100 white papers and reports. • Articles, op-eds and reviews. I’ve written, ghostwritten and edited hundreds of pieces for business magazines, newspapers, blogs and web sites.
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