Hidden Asset: Thomas Davenport has helped midwife some of the biggest trends to have shaped business over the past 25 years--among them, reengineering and knowledge management. Now he's asking: Where do ideas come from? And how do they get traction? (@ Fast Company)
Joseph Stiglitz: Globalization and the Search for Balance: (@ Government Tech)
Auditing An Oracle: Shareholders nearly deify Warren Buffett for the way he manages his diverse holding company, Berkshire Hathaway of Omaha. But that doesn't necessarily mean that other companies can or should follow the way the avuncular champion of business ethics... (@ Baseline Mag)
Man of Mystery: Ram Charan lives nowhere and goes everywhere, consulting for the largest and most powerful companies seven days a week, 365 days a year. Work is all he does, and all he wants to do. But even more than his dedication, it's his insights that have... (@ Fast Company)
The Paradox of Charles Handy: Vicar and visionary, modern management’s most eminent philosopher says it takes a village to build a company (@ Strategy+Business)
Expert Voice: Michael Treacy on Growth: No one can guarantee double-digit growth. But Michael Treacy, a former MIT management professor and entrepreneur, says every company can grow steadily and permanently, even in hard times, by taking a disciplined approach to a portfolio of growth... (@ CIO insight)
Dead Thinkers' Society: Meet the new economy's oldest new economist (@ Business 2.0)
Sage Advice: The foremost business thinker of our age tells what is wrong (and right) with the New Economy (@ Business 2.0)
Gorillas Are an Investor's Best Friend: Market sage Geoffrey Moore spots the next Net heavyweights (@ eCompany)
Do You Know Your Own Strength?: Gallup guru Marcus Buckingham advises some of the world's most powerful CEOs. He also helps hard-charging leaders who aren't CEOs make the most of their talents. What would he think of your career choices? (@ Fast Company)
Maister Class: Transform Morale Into Money: As the service sector's best-known guru, David Maister has spent a career telling his clients that it really is all about people. Now he's got the data to prove it. (@ Fast Company)
Interview: C.K. Prahalad: A renowned corporate strategist as well as chairman and cofounder of San Diego-based Praja, which specializes in finding new ways to experience content on any Web-enabled device. He's written extensively on core competency and global strategy. (@ CIO magazine)
Michael Porter's Big Ideas: The world's most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make a difference as a leader, you've got to make time for strategy (@ Fast Company)
Charles Handy: Profile in The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management, by BBC World Services. (@ BBC World Service)
Peter Drucker: Profile in The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management, by BBC World Services. (@ BBC World Service)
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Are You on Digital Time?: Nearly 10 years ago, George Stalk Jr. literally wrote the book on how companies can compete on speed. Today, he says, time is still the ultimate competitive weapon -- but by going digital, you can make your company even faster and even more competiti (@ Fast Company)
How 51 Gorillas Can Make You Seriously Rich: It is astonishing how bad most business books are. Many appear to be little more than expanded PowerPoint presentations, with bullet points and sidebars setting out unrelated examples or unconnected thoughts. Some read like an extended paragraph from (@ The Economist)
It's Blanchard's World, After All: He's corny, he's maudlin—and he's everywhere. Ken Blanchard, author of the 1982 smash The One Minute Manager, has sold 15 million copies of his books and has a new one out last month—The Leadership Pill: The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People To (@ Fortune)
How to Read a Business Book: They define trends and influence titans, but do you know how to tell great literature from company-crashing schlock? Here are some rules for understanding the new economy (@ U of Chicago Magazine)
In Search Of Dwarfs: Our Consultant Debunking Unit shows, with the help of the Seven Dwarfs, why three of the most popular management books are really just hi-ho-hum. (@ Fast Company)
Remembering Sumantra Ghoshal: Professor Ghoshal was well known and highly regarded worldwide as a teacher, consultant, public speaker and author (@ Sloan Management Review)
The Fable: These business books are undeniably popular, and their intent - imparting learning in easy-to-swallow caplet form-is noble. So why are they so awful? (@ Fast Company)
Peter Drucker Sets Us Straight: The 94-year-old guru says that most people are thinking all wrong about jobs, debt, globalization, and recession (@ Fortune)
Ripping Up the Textbook Business: O'Reilly Media's newest trick: Unleashing technology on the most outdated corner of the publishing world. (@ Business 2.0)
The Accidental Guru: Malcolm Gladwell, says one fan, is "just a thinker." But what a thinker. His provocative ideas are taking the business world by storm. So who is this guy, and what can he teach you about business? (@ Fast Company)
Alan Axelrod, Business Book Juggernaut: the hyperprolific Axelrod has authored dozens of books in the past 15 years, including two top sellers, Patton on Leadership and Elizabeth I, CEO. What does a former English professor with only a decade's experience in middle management have... (@ Inc)
Guru Nation: Management gurus, including Stephen Covey, Tom Peters and Gary Hamel, are making millions by promising companies that their techniques and insights can improve productivity and make the most of human capital. Whether they really deliver on those prom (@ Workforce Management)
A Who's Who of Gurus : 10 business gurus, along with their books and their message (@ Workforce Management)
The Gonzo Way of Branding: Billionaire Richard Branson has thrived by breaking the rules. Now he's tackling his greatest challenge, setting his sights on the United States and a new airline. He's testing himself and the limits of the Virgin brand. Billionaire Richard Branson (@ Fast Company)
How to Read a Business Book: Three ways to get the most out of business tomes -- without resorting to just the executive summary (@ Fast Company)
Learning for a Change: Ten years ago, Peter Senge introduced the idea of the "learning organization." Now he says that for big companies to change, we need to stop thinking like mechanics and to start acting like gardeners (@ Fast Company)
The 10 Lives of George Stalk: The star strategy consultant was declared dead three times -- and came back unrepentant and tougher than ever. His new book sees competition as a matter of life or death. (@ Fast Company)
Fast Talk: Lessons From The New Economy: Robert Shiller, Professor of economics, Yale University (@ Fast Company)
How to read a business book: "This isn't just for reading business books. What I'm going to cover ought to suffice for pretty much any physical text from which you wish to squeeze maximum value." (@ SlackerManager.com)
Convincing Managers to Buy Books: Some of my suggestions for people in my classes are simply to buy some good books for some specific information. When I suggest this, I sometimes hear "my manager won't let me buy books." (@ Managing Product Development)
Jim Collins - Built to last: Secrets of the world's bestselling business books (@ The Economist)
Leadership's loss: Management literature has lost a prolific and creative writer (@ The Economist)
Peter Drucker On Leadership: Peter F. Drucker was born 95 years ago today--can it be possible?--in Vienna. The universally known writer, thinker and lecturer now is nearly deaf and doesn't get around like he used to. He stopped giving media interviews about a year ago. But... (@ Forbes)
The Enduring Magic Of Software: My optimism for the future of computing has never been greater (@ Information Week)
Quest for a tome that alters people's thinking: Although precise figures are hard to come by, business book sales are down substantially from the peak (@ Financial Times)
Consultant, Heal Thyself: Jon R. Katzenbach and his partners have written books about creating great companies. Now they're trying to build one of their own. (@ Fast Company)
Conversation With a Giant: Drucker stopped giving press interviews about a year ago. But in late October he granted an exception to FORBES (@ Forbes)
Jim Collins on Tough Calls: When FORTUNE senior writer Jerry Useem asked him to discuss the art of decision-making, he got so into the idea that he pored over 14 years of research and interviews he had amassed in the course of writing Built to Last and Good to Great (@ Fortune)
Good Managers Focus on Employees' Strengths, Not Weaknesses: Marcus Buckingham knows enough about good management to know he's not a good manager. (@ Knowledge @Wharton)
Trump's $250,000 bill: Prime-time television isn't the only place to catch Bill Rancic dispensing business advice. The winner of the original The Apprentice's prize has also written a memoir-cum-business manual for people who tend to avoid business books (@ US News & World Report)
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Blurb Buddies: In 1996, 1,788 business books were published in the United States -- and U.S. consulting firms took in an estimated $43 billion in revenues. Coincidence? The Fast Company Consultant Debunking Unit (CDU) detects a pattern here. (@ Fast Company)
Good management: Recalling the thinker who urged a sunnier view (@ The Economist)
James Champy on "The Arc of Ambition", part 2: In the second part of a two-part interview, the co-author of "The Arc of Ambition" discusses how companies can stimulate ambition in their employees-and why pharmaceutical companies do this best of all (@ The Economist)
Interview with Daniel Pink: The author of "Free Agent Nation" explains how the rise in self-employment will transform the workplace, from the changing face of unions to the importance of human resources (@ The Economist)
Interview with James Champy: In the first of a two-part interview, the co-author of "The Arc of Ambition" explains what makes ambition vital to leadership (@ The Economist)
Jim Collins on Tough Calls : It’s really a stream of decisions over time, brilliantly executed, that accounts for great outcomes (@ Fortune)
Andy Grove Made The Elephant Dance: Intel's boss, who retires soon, kept the giant perennially nimble (@ Business Week)
Pitchman for the Gray Revolution : Ken Dychtwald has a message for aging boomers and the corporations that sell to them: Retirement as we know it is over. Thank goodness for that. (@ Fortune)
The Once & Future Consultant: In 2002, Dave Ulrich left his hugely successful consulting firm to run a Mormon mission in Quebec. Now he's heading back to business with a fresh eye and some fresh ideas (@ Fast Company)
The Art of Work : What would happen if the best moments of your life happened at the office? That would be "flow," and thanks to a guy with an unpronounceable name, more and more businesses want to know about it. (@ Fast Company)
Raymond C. Kurzweil: Prophet Of Longevity: Inventor-entrepreneur-author Raymond C. Kurzweil is keeping his eye on the year 2030. By 2030, Kurzweil believes, biomedical technology will have advanced to the point where it will be possible to halt the body's aging process (@ BusinessWeek)
Who Moved My Ability to Reason? : The bustling genre of business success books, descended from Dale Carnegie's mid-20th-century oeuvre and ready to transform you into a C.E.O. now (@ NY Times)
Former Hewlett - Packard CEO to Write Book: Carly Fiorina, the Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO deposed last winter for failing to deliver enough benefits from the company's acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp., is writing a book about her career. (@ NY Times)
Malcolm Gladwell - Pop Purveyor Of New Ideas: Gladwell's effortless prose and knack for storytelling have made him the U.S.'s leading pop sociologist, a writer who manages to make his work as relevant to CEOs as it is to soldiers (@ Time Magazine)
Jeffrey Sachs - The People's Economist: He is an economist who loves statistics because they are pictures of people's lives-- people, in many cases, for whom economics means working out how to feed a family on less than a dollar a day. (@ Time Magazine)
Tracking Innovation : Geoffrey Moore's insight into innovation and corporate culture upends conventional wisdom (@ Profit Magazine)
Knowledge Workers Need More Supervision: Knowledge workers could perform much better if we only knew how to manage them, says Thomas Davenport. His suggestion: Don't treat them the all same, and measure them tactfully. (@ CIO Insight Magazine)
Dee Hock on Management: Dee Hock's management principles, in his own words (@ Fast Company)
Quelling Your Inner Jerk: Marshall Goldsmith coaches chief executives to lose the swagger and listen up (@ Forbes)
Rockin' in the Flat World: He dazzles crowds. He brews conventional wisdom. He charms CEOs. And he drives some people crazy. Meet Tom Friedman, the oracle of the Global Century. (@ Fortune)
Management Guru Peter Drucker Dies At 95: Peter F. Drucker, who taught many generations of American managers everything they knew about running a business, died today at 95 at his home in Claremont, Calif. (@ Forbes)
Who moved my business book?: The odds of a publisher coming up with a bestselling business book - let alone one that might be considered “great” - are very, very long (@ Financial Times)
No More Business As Usual: The new promise of the business book (@ PublishersWeekly.com)
Peter Drucker: An "Intellectual Compass": With the management luminary's passing, we take a look back at some of the very best of his business advice (@ Inc Magazine)
Managing the Dream Warren Bennis on Leadership: Bennis interviewed by Ivey Business Journal (@ Ivey Business Journal)
Peter Drucker: The one management thinker every educated person should read (@ The Economist)
Ending 2005 in a book store: Since our own book is coming out in a few days I wanted to see what the state of business books are. They mostly suck. (@ Scobleizer Blog)
Three Answers: Patrick Lencioni: Short interview with the author of Silos, Politics and Turf Wars (@ Publishers Weekly)
Business Prophet: How strategy guru C.K. Prahalad is changing the way CEOs think (@ BusinessWeek)
Peter Drucker: 1909 - 2005: He was justly lauded and adored as the greatest management thinker and writer of all time, but he wasn't interested in any of that (@ Fortune)
Today's 6 Worst Business Books : To shame the publishers of these books into improving, I hereby announce my choice of Today’s Six Worst Business Books. (@ Chief Executive)
How I Work: Bill Gates: Not much of a paper chase for Microsoft's chairman, who uses a range of digital tools to do business. (@ Fortune)
FORTUNE 500? He Practically Invented It: Geoffrey Colvin spoke with him recently about the future of the FORTUNE 500, important trends that haven't changed since the 1880s, and why he doesn't foresee China dominating the global economy (@ Fortune)
Books That Deserve a Promotion: An office-life arbiter says these books offer proper advice (@ Wall Street Journal)
Permission Marketing: Internet marketing pioneer Seth Godin says he wants to change the way almost everything is marketed to almost everybody. Will you give him permission to come in and show you the future? (@ Fast Company)
The Man Who Invented Management: Why Peter Drucker's ideas still matter (@ BusinessWeek)
A Concise History of Management Hooey: For every Six Sigma quality initiative, there's an inkblot test. Why FORTUNE 500 companies fall prey to boneheaded fads and fashions (@ Fortune)
The Author as Über-Marketer: Need a lesson in selling yourself? Take a page from the writers' playbook (@ Business 2.0)
Free Trade Can Be Too Free : Economist Joseph Stiglitz makes the case against unfettered globalization (@ BusinessWeek)
Still smokin': Irrepressible at 81, business icon Lee Iacocca sounds off about life, politics, Lee Raymond, and why he's writing a new book (@ Fortune Magazine)
Theodore Levitt Dead at 81 : The respected author and Harvard Business Review editor is credited with elevating the role of marketing in business (@ BusinessWeek)
Spotlight on Patrick Barwise: Patrick Barwise talks about the need for marketers to refocus their efforts towards delivering what matters most to customers, rather than seeking a unique selling proposition. (@ Emerald Now)
The people's economist: John Kenneth Galbraith, enemy of inequality, left a lasting legacy of economic thought and social commentary. (@ Fortune)
Join the Corporate Literati: Don't let your day job prevent you from becoming the next Hemingway (@ Fast Company)
This Old House Is a Home for New Ideas: "If you can change your mind, you can change the world," says creativity guru Joey Reiman. But how do you change your mind? By slowing down long enough to think: "Experience the power of a slow company." (@ Fast Company)
Alan Axelrod, Business Book Juggernaut: Alan Axelrod made Elizabeth I a star CEO. Now he's tackling ethics (@ Inc Magazine)
Karma Capitalism: Times have changed since Gordon Gekko quoted Sun Tzu in the 1987 movie Wall Street. Has the Bhagavad Gita replaced The Art of War as the hip new ancient Eastern management text? (@ BusinessWeek)
Sandy Weill's Wild Ride : Interview with Maria Bartiromo (@ BusinessWeek)
Fiorina On Leaks And Her Legacy : Interview with Maria Bartiromo (@ BusinessWeek)
The death of exclusive rights: The New York Times irks publishing houses and news organizations alike by printing quotes from embargoed books. (@ Fortune)
Alvin Toffler: The Thought Leader Interview: Thirty-six years after his book Future Shock, the world’s most influential futurist sees the informal economy as a basis of revolutionary wealth. (@ Strategy+Business)
Michael Porter Asks, and Answers: Why Do Good Managers Set Bad Strategies?: Errors in corporate strategy are often self-inflicted, and a singular focus on shareholder value is the "Bermuda Triangle" of strategy (@ Knowledge@Wharton)
Web Sites Challenge the Textbook Goliaths: The biggest, Chegg.com, has scored $2.2 million in funding. The idea: sell cheaper books to students, bypass the textbook monopolies—and make money (@ BusinessWeek)