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Your Own Personal Hedgehog Circles -- Counsel from Jim Collins, Kevin Maney, and Trade-Off
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 a… more →
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Your Own Personal Hedgehog Circles -- Counsel from Jim Collins, Kevin Maney, and Trade-Off
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wrote 15 hours ago: Maybe the most-known and most influential business understanding of the last few years is Jim Collin … more →
Dallas-Plano-Irving in the top 15 for best cities for job growth -- I think I know why
wrote 1 week ago: Dallas-Plano-Irving moved up from # 23 to #13, (and Fort Worth-Arlington moved up from #29 to #12) i … more →
First Friday Book Synopsis Update - The Tyranny of E-mail and Trade Off, Coming in January
wrote 1 month ago: We closed 2009 with over 90 people gathered for the December First Friday Book Synopsis. My colleag … more →
KEEP LEARNING -- there’s always the next new thing to learn
wrote 1 month ago: Peter Drucker -- The Man Who Invented Management “The only job security is found in your own a … more →
What a New Book Says about e-Mail
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wrote 2 months ago: Since you are taking a break from your e-mail right now to read this post, I thought you might be in … more →
Interview: Randy Mayeux
wrote 3 months ago: Randy MayeuxMayeux is a professional speaker and writer, and a doctoral candidate in Communication: … more →
A Blog for Book Readers and Book Lovers -- With Special Emphasis on Business Books
wrote 3 months ago: When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parc … more →
Is all the business world a field or court?
wrote 4 months ago: A quick stroll through the business section of a bookstore or a search through the management sectio … more →
Curiosity is High-Test Fuel
wrote 4 months ago: Cheryl offers: A few months ago, we decided to create a new offering for women’s business topi … more →
Q #232: What is an “elegant solution”?
wrote 5 months ago: Matthew May I first encountered the term when reading Matthew May’s The Elegant Solution: Toyota … more →
Rx for Information Overload -- The First Friday Book Synopsis
wrote 5 months ago: There is too much to know. Really — there is too much to know. Everywhere around us, we see t … more →
In Pursuit of Elegance - What about the Enthymeme?
wrote 6 months ago: My book for July, 2009 at the First Friday Book Synopsis is In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ide … more →
Q #187: How to explain the success of First Friday Book Synopsis?
wrote 6 months ago: In this series, Bob Morris poses a key question and then responds to it with material from one or mo … more →
Randy's Table is Ambitious - and Correct!
wrote 6 months ago: I hope you had the chance to read the recent blog by Randy Mayeux, in which he inserted a table of t … more →
Business Books as Teaching Tools - On the Bandwagon!
wrote 6 months ago: I find increasing interest among professors in schools of business to use popular and professional b … more →
Our Networking Mandate -- Go Fish in Every Pond
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wrote 6 months ago: The First Friday Book Synopsis has been meeting for over 11 years. Something new is happening … more →
10-10-10 -- Decision Making, Suzy Welch, and the Challenge for All of Us
wrote 7 months ago: In my speech classes, I frequently show my students the locker room speech delivered by Al Pacino fr … more →
My favorite line from Ken Robinson's The Element -- and a couple of other reflections
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wrote 8 months ago: This past Friday, I preseented a synopsis of the wonderful book the Element: How Finding Your Passi … more →
Are Harvard Business School Publications Biased Toward Their Own?
wrote 9 months ago: The Harvard Business School publications are of high quality and have served the professional and ac … more →
