A new book about gender has created controversy, but perhaps for all the wrong reasons. How would you like to know that women are the superior gender, and that we actually don’t need men at all? I don’t think that’s what Sheryl Sandberg had in mind when she wrote Lean In: Women, Work, and the… Read More Not What Sandberg Had In Mind – This One May Need to “Lean Out”
People don’t care about entities that they don’t care about. If someone has a “just a job,” then that is not enough to make them care about the success of an organization. It has to mean something in the depths of their being for them to genuinely care … This occured to me as I… Read More A Quick Thought About True “Buy-In” (Why Harvard Is Always Ranked #1)
Even in a down-economy, discussions about assessing, developing, or obtaining talent will not go away. Indeed, this week we learned about another business best-seller on this topic. Top Talent by Sylvia Ann Hewlett (Harvard Business School Press, 2010). Over the years, at the First Friday Book Synopsis, we have featured books such as these… Read More Finding Talent Remains an Important Issue
Cheryl offers: I’ve been reading the newspaper a lot more carefully ever since Sara blogged about the Fort Hood incident. Remember the strapping brunette? I don’t watch TV so I haven’t seen any of the Olympics; instead I occasionally check the sports section of the newspaper. What grabbed me today was the tremendous success of… Read More Language Matters!
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