Karl Krayer and I will soon complete our 13th full year of hosting the First Friday Book Synopsis. At each of our monthly meetings, Karl and I each present a synopsis of a best selling business book. For nearly half that time, I have also presented synopses every month for the Urban Engagement Book Club… Read More A Suggested Reading List For Those Interested In Issues of Social Justice And Poverty
We had a wonderful morning at the October First Friday Book Synopsis. Karl presented a synopsis of the terrific new Tony Schwartz (et. al) book, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance. I presented my synopsis of The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest… Read More Coming for the November First Friday Book Synopsis – Tapscott’s Macrowikinomics, and Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership
Without comment, from The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin: It is an empirical fact that most of the world’s cities live forever. Corporations, on the other hand, live half as long as the average human being… Corporations, in the name of… Read More The Life Span of Corporations – A Quote for the Day from The Power of Positive Deviance
Bob Morris, my blogging colleague and general all around font of amazing knowledge and wisdom, reads books by the bushel full. I read fewer – far fewer. And, more times than not, in the last couple of years, I have chosen a book that Bob tells me “would be a good one for the First… Read More The Power of Positive Deviance – One of the Two Good Books for this Friday’s First Friday Book Synopsis
We had a wonderful gathering this morning for the September First Friday Book Synosis. Karl Krayer presented the best-seller, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh (of Zappos fame). I presented the provocative book The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity by Richard Florida. … Read More Energy (Schwartz, et.al.) and Positive Deviance – Coming for the October First Friday Book Synopsis
So what does a surgeon like me do? We look to those who are unusually successful — the positive deviants. We watch them operate and learn their tricks, the moves they make we can take home. Although the solutions to our health-cost problems are hard, there are solutions. (from the foreword by Atul Gawande). The… Read More A Quote for the Day from The Power of Positive Deviance – “There are solutions”
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