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Great by Choice; The Shallows – two good books for the November First Friday Book Synopsis

The new Jim Collins  and Morten Hansen book, Great by Choice:   Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, and the significant “how is the internet affecting our brains” book, The Shallows, will be our two selections of the November 4 First Friday Book Synopsis. I will present the synopsis of the new… Read More Great by Choice; The Shallows – two good books for the November First Friday Book Synopsis

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Who Should You Hire – The Expert Or The Crony?

(personal note:  this is the longest I’ve gone without much blogging activity.  My apology — I had a little health set back {it seems ok now} — and I’ve been playing catch-up, not all that successfully, for a while.  Hopefully, by next week, I’ll be back to normal). ——- cro·ny·ism noun \-nē-ˌi-zəm\: partiality to cronies…without… Read More Who Should You Hire – The Expert Or The Crony?

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Someone (In Our Company) Is Doing Something Wrong – I Really Don’t Want To Know About It!

I have read and presented synopses of This Time is Different and The Big Short and All the Devils are Here.  And I’ve had so many, many conversations about all that went wrong in the 2008 financial meltdown that was “thirty years in the making” (All the Devils are Here). We are in such a… Read More Someone (In Our Company) Is Doing Something Wrong – I Really Don’t Want To Know About It!

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Maybe It’s Time For A Movement – A Movement That Moves Beyond Doing Good To Doing Right

There are times when I feel something close to a sense of despair.  It has to do with a simple question – should a business take seriously the call to do right? The despair comes from what I read — in a lot of places/books/articles, but especially in the book I have recently completed, All… Read More Maybe It’s Time For A Movement – A Movement That Moves Beyond Doing Good To Doing Right

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Here’s The New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers, published February 4, 2011

Here’s the New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers, published: February 4, 2011.  Two books that we presented quite a while back at the First Friday Book Synopsis (Outliers, presented two years ago, January, 2009 & The 4-Hour Workweek, presented nearly three years ago, March 2008) are still #s 2 & 3 (actually, tied for… Read More Here’s The New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers, published February 4, 2011

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Not Much has Changed; Little Has Been Learned – Michael Lewis (The Big Short) speaks out

The Big Short is coming out in paperback today.  It is still #2 on the New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers list (just behind #1, with an asterisk, meaning that it is actually tied for #1 with the newer take on the financial meltdown, All The Devils Are Here – now my March selection… Read More Not Much has Changed; Little Has Been Learned – Michael Lewis (The Big Short) speaks out

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A Nation, A World, Of Disconnected Voices – We Are Not Just Bowling Alone, We Are Living Alone

Once a lender sold a mortgage, it no longer had a stake in whether the borrower could make his or her payments. McLean and Nocera, All The Devils are Here, on one unintended consequence of modern mortgage practices. ————— “No one is left from the Glenn Valley, Pennsylvania Bridge Club who can tell us precisely… Read More A Nation, A World, Of Disconnected Voices – We Are Not Just Bowling Alone, We Are Living Alone

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Trust in the Competence + Goodness of Leaders = Effective Leadership – (A Lesson Gleaned from All The Devils Are Here)

Leadership is all about trust…  If people trust their leader(s), anything is possible.  If people lose trust in their leader(s), almost nothing can hold against the onslaught. This Friday at the First Friday Book Synopsis, I will be presenting my synopsis of All The Devils are Here by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera.  This idea… Read More Trust in the Competence + Goodness of Leaders = Effective Leadership – (A Lesson Gleaned from All The Devils Are Here)

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In the Midst of all this Innovation and Change – Don’t Forget the Tried & True Basics

I am awash in reading about innovation.  I’ve presented synopses of great books on innovation.  I’ve thought about it, tried to get better at it (not enough), and am fully persuaded that the future belongs to those who innovate well. But…  “I’m an innovator” does not mean that it is time to ignore/jettison the tried… Read More In the Midst of all this Innovation and Change – Don’t Forget the Tried & True Basics

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All The Devils Are Here, Lesson #1 – We Really Do Like To Turn A Deaf Ear To Bad News

Good business books do two things.  They tell a good story, and they give us the facts/principles/lessons that flow from these stories. I’m barely into All The Devils Are Here by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, my selection for the February First Friday Book Synopsis, and I’m already hooked.  The opening story of the book… Read More All The Devils Are Here, Lesson #1 – We Really Do Like To Turn A Deaf Ear To Bad News

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