Thinking in Systems: A Primer,
Meadows, Donella
From time to time, I recommend Meadows’ article, Places to Intervene in a System. It’s a succinct summary of her long experience at finding leverage points for effective change in complex human and organizational systems. In this slim volume, she provides an accessible and understandable introduction to [...]
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Back in late May I got an email from Renee Callahan who edits Strategy and Innovation asking if I wanted to be part of a "blogger’s virtual book tour" for Scott Anthony’s soon to be released book, The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times. Who could resist? Especially [...]
The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times, Anthony, Scott D.
The Silver Lining is positioned as a case for the strategic value of innovation in economic downturns. It evolves into a reflection on the role of constraints in innovation and on the possibility of successful innovation within large, [...]
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A dozen years ago, at the height of the dotcom boom, Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen published The Innovator’s Dilemma. It started from a simple observation that transformative innovations that reshaped competitive landscapes and created new industries almost invariable came from new organizations. Conventional wisdom held that this was a [...]
The Future of Management, Hamel, Gary
Gary Hamel has been an astute observer of organizations and management for several decades now. For all the reasons that seemed to make sense at the time, this book sat on my shelf for a while before I got to it. Based on the current state of the [...]
“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”
- Laurence Peter
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Dialogue Mapping: Building Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems, Conklin, Jeff
However you’re paying attention to the current external environment — the nightly news, newspapers, blogs, Twitter, or the Daily [...]
The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor, Kessler, Andy
Andy Kessler is a former Wall Street investment analyst turned author. He learned his trade following Silicon Valley and its successful, long-term, obsession with Moore’s Law. In that world, as technology scales, costs fall predictably, and new markets emerge. [...]
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The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work, Anthony, Scott D. et.al.
The Innovator’s Guide to Growth is the newest installment in a series of books articulating and explicating Prof. Clay Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation. This hands on guide packages some of the insights developed as an outgrowth [...]
Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years, Carroll, Paul B. and Chunka Mui
Progress in science and engineering proceeds from the dispassionate analysis of failure. We learn more when we screw up than when we succeed. However, since Waterman and Peters In Search of Excellence, [...]
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why, Ripley, Amanda
Amanda Ripley has taken an interesting premise and turned it into an excellent book. A writer for Time magazine, shes turned her attention to the lessons to be had from the ordinary people who survive extraordinary situations; those [...]
