Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self, Webber, Alan M. Alan Webber was the managing editor of the Harvard Business Review and, wearing an entrepreneurial hat, was a cofounder of Fast Company magazine. He’s hung out with and paid attention to lots of smart people and he’s managed to [...]
Tagged Knowledge workFree: The Future of a Radical Price, Anderson, Chris "Free" is an excellent hook for Chris Anderson’s newest book from a sales and marketing perspective; whether it holds up as a core intellectual hook is less clear. I got my copy of Free for free, of course, in exchange for a promise to review [...]
Tagged EconomicsThinking 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 systems [...]
Tagged Design, Strategy, systems, Thinking[cross posted at FASTforward blog] 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 [...]
Tagged Christensen, Innosight, InnovationThe 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, complex, organizations. Scott Anthony, the [...]
Tagged Innovation, Strategy[cross posted at FASTforward blog] 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 [...]
Tagged Christensen, InnovationThe 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 [...]
Tagged Design, management, Organization“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.” – Laurence Peter [Cross posted at FASTforward] 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, [...]
Tagged bCisive, compendium, dialogue mapping, wicked problemsThe 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 [...]
Tagged health care, Innovation[cross posted at FASTForward Blog] 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 [...]
Tagged Christensen, Innovation
