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Most everyone has heard Peter Drucker’s famous dictum “What gets measured gets done”, the implication being that unless specific behaviors and outcomes are measured they aren’t likely to be given much attention. In this month’s HBR, Dan Ariely suggests that this notion of measurement-driving-behavior explains many of the problems with current CEO behavior and suggests [...]
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Noah asks a provocative question: What if businesses came with expiration dates? Nobody wins forever. It just doesn’t happen. What we see in reality are millions of corpses of businesses and ideas that have made their impact (or not) and then petered out into oblivion without leaving much more than a memory. Some of them [...]
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Jen Prout of The Full Belmonty recently posted about the various organizational and management lessons to be learned by watching CBS’s new reality show, “Undercover Boss”. Each week, the show follows a CEO as they go undercover, posing as a new hire or trainee, working at various locations. The basic plot is that the CEO’s [...]
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This month’s issue of Fast Company includes (as usual) a great column by the Heath brothers. The subject is right up my alley: using signals as diagnostic tools. As I’ve argued before, separating signal from noise and then using those signals to inform our decisions is key to good decision making regardless of the area [...]
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Over lunch the other day, Noah mentioned this really interesting product that was announced at CES. It’s called Airnergy and it somehow harvests the energy emitted by nearby WiFi signals and converts it into electricity that can be used to power and recharge various devices. It reminded me of a concept I’ve been toying with [...]
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Joel Spolsky, an entrepreneur and columnist for Inc., wrote an interesting piece last month asking whether his strategy of slow, consistent growth was actually a recipe for failure: I have always believed that there is a natural, organic rate at which a business should grow, and that if we expanded too fast, the wheels would [...]
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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
The Lords of Strategy
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Turned Political Spin into a Global Business
The Bottom Billon
