Get to Know Your Brain
I can't keep up with the good stuff to read and blog about out there! Harvard Business Review is particularly good this month--focusing on decision making. I've already commented on the good strategy article over on the ...
Category: Individual Development
Resolutions
Happy new year! I'm not one to make new year's resolutions, actually, but I liked what Amy Joyce wrote in her "Life at Work" column in the Washington Post on Sunday. Specifically, she made two work-related reso ...
Drucker Quote
With management guru Peter Drucker's passing, I was inspired to get and (finally!) read his classic "Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices" book. I haven't finished it, but here's my fa ...
Re-Creation
Even though I just had a vacation in July, here I am taking a few more days off. The good kind--where I will have zero access to both email and cell phone. I am riding my bicycle from Pittsburgh, PA to my home in G ...
More on Fundamental State
More thoughts on Quinn’s HBR article on the “Fundamental State of Leadership.” To repeat, Quinn believes that leaders have access to a “fundamental state,” where their leadership is truly authentic and more powerful. Ins ...
Fundamental State
The July/August issue of Harvard Business Review has some great articles in it. One good one is on the “strategy-performance gap.” Since the only strategy work I do is with my colleague Jeff De Cagna through our joint ve ...
More Hairballs
I promised to blog more about Orbiting the Giant Hairball, by Gordon MacKenzie, so here goes. The penultimate chapter in the book is titled “Pool Hall Dog.” MacKenzie describes a scene he witnessed in a pool hall where a ...