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The Battle for Management’s Future Best Books for 2011

Posted on March 1, 2012 by David

My interim blog for this week points to the addition to the site of my Strategy+Business essay, The Battle for Management’s Future. My scope for these best books essays is “management”, narrowly defined, so it excludes categories like Leadership and Strategy … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Adapt, Bob Lutz, Car Guys vs Bean Counters, Fixing the Game, Roger Martin, Tim Harford | Comments Off

Growing People: Give head and elbow room

Posted on February 28, 2012 by David

How does one develop senior people? The evidence is rather clear from sources as far apart as the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) and the consultants, McKinsey. At CCL they have found that the best preparation for a senior role in any … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Andreas Kluth, bad bosses, Center for Creative Leadership, Chris Anderson, crisis, ecocycle, elbow room, flawed bosses, fractal, head room, job structure, learning from experience, McKinsey, The Economist, turnaround, Wired magazine | 1 Comment

The Fusion of Ideas: Welding Imagination to Experience

Posted on February 16, 2012 by David

In a recent HBR blog, Bronwyn Fryer, a contributing editor to hbr.org , put out a call for what she called “idea fusers”. She pointed out that great inventions are often the result of the fusion of ideas from very … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 3M, Anglo-Saxon capitalism, cooperation and collaboration, creativity, ecologics, egalitarian teams, fission-fusion, Google, herding dynamics, horizontal thinkers, hunting dynamics, IDEO, innovation, Jump Associates, Mitt Romney, neoclassical economics, power hierarchies, Rent the Runway, T-shaped thinkers, vertical thinkers | Comments Off

Scribblings from the Garret

Posted on February 7, 2012 by David

Welcome to my blog, the launching of my new website, and the pre-launch publicity for my forthcoming book, The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World. In his January/February article in Foreign Affairs, The Future of History: … Continue reading →