Today, I picked my newspaper up off the lawn and brought it in to my house to read with my coffee. I didn’t have to take my daughter to school because of President’s Day, so I came back inside my house. From all indications, this ritual is on the road to extinction. Many reports predict that all newspapers will… Read More Keeping Newspapers from Going the Route of the Milkman
Maybe the most-known and most influential business understanding of the last few years is Jim Collins’ “Hedgehog principle.” You know the three circles: In the book I am presenting tomorrow morning at the First Friday Book Synopsis, Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don’t by Kevin Maney, Jim Collins writes the foreword and… Read More Your Own Personal Hedgehog Circles — Counsel from Jim Collins, Kevin Maney, and Trade-Off
I had a conversation with a CEO of a company that is doing pretty well in the midst of this recession. A lot of companies aren’t, and he is experiencing a new “challenge.” Others — other people, other companies – are trying to get him to expand his company’s efforts into areas that really aren’t… Read More It’s All About Focus — A Lesson confirmed by Drucker and Collins
There is a clear finding in the books I have presented so far in 2009. If you put Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell with Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin, you learn that getting really, really good at anything requires a lot, a whole lot, of hard work, with a discipline of pursuing “deliberate practice” over the… Read More Passion — The Crucial Ingredient that Precedes “Getting Really Good” at Something
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