Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

How can you innovate to avoid irrelevance? How can you nurture your best people, especially the rebels? And how can you set goals and objectives effectively to make sure your company succeeds? These are key questions for anybody charged with developing strategy for a large organization. And these key questions are answered with clarity and verve in this year's best business books on strategy.

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Confessions of a Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Consider re-writing your success software. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.” W. C. Fields. The flight to Faro was particularly bumpy. High above the Bay of Biscay we were bouncing around like a table tennis ball in a Jacuzzi. At one point I was tempted to email the Bacardi factory in Cuba and ask them to put on a 3 rd shift.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

This year's best business books on the subject of leadership all deal with the vital topic of finding meaning and purpose in the workplace. But they approach the topic from fundamentally different and illuminating angles. Fred Kofman, an advisor at Google, argues in The Meaning Revolution that leaders must transcend the challenge of employee disengagement through intentional actions.

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Peter Stark

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

We have all had the unpleasant task of going to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to do things such as changing the title on a car, updating a registration or renewing a driver’s license. The first task upon arrival was to determine what line you had to stand in. You had to make this decision correctly because the DMV took great pride in having one employee handle only one type of transaction.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Our writers select the year's best business books in seven categories: leadership, management, innovation, economics, strategy, narratives, and marketing.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Our writers select the year's best business books in seven categories: leadership, management, innovation, economics, strategy, narratives, and marketing.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Persistence is sort of annoying. Consistency, on the other hand, is the happy twin brother of persistence. Consistent with your statements, consistent in the content you create, consistent in the way you chip away at the problem you’re seeking to solve. Persistence can be selfish, but consistency is generous. And the best thing is that you only have to make the choice to be consistent once.

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MBO Partners

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

News and notes for independent professionals and their clients. This is the November 5, 2018 edition.

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