This month, our book summaries are all about looking ahead and finding new approaches to doing business. Learn how to anticipate the future of your organization, prepare for change, and take a new approach to
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Innovation and Investment
If you’re analyzing companies to invest in, certainly one item you’ll want to take into consideration is their strategy for innovation. Next week’s Soundview Live webinars have got you covered on both the investment and
Continue ReadingWork, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
THE SECOND MACHINE AGE A New Era Going Full Steam For most of us, the Industrial Age refers to the late 19th-century explosion of large companies with large factories that fundamentally changed the way we
Continue ReadingKnow Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers
THE DECODED COMPANY Using Big Data in Human Resources What if companies knew as much about their employees as they knew about their customers? That is the provocative question at the heart of The Decoded
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SCALING UP EXCELLENCE How to Scale Up Faster and Farther Most companies have “pockets of excellence,” according to Stanford University professors Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao — units, departments or subsidiaries where people perform at
Continue ReadingKeeping Business Simple
Checklists are a modest way to reduce failure, ensure consistency, and safeguard comprehensiveness. We use checklists to do the grocery shopping or to plan a weekend project. What if there was a checklist for running
Continue ReadingLessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation
QUICK AND NIMBLE Out of the Mouths of CEOs What are the core elements of an effective culture that encourages and enables innovation, and how can leaders create such a culture? These two questions are
Continue ReadingWhat You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration
IDEA TO INVENTION Anyone Can Be an Inventor One day, Patricia Nolan-Brown was driving in downtown Boston with her young child in a rear-facing car seat in the back seat, as required by law. On
Continue ReadingJeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
THE EVERYTHING STORE Jeff Bezos’ Dream Come True While the face may be somewhat familiar and everyone knows his company well, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has not enjoyed the iconic status of a Bill Gates
Continue ReadingWhat Works and What Doesn’t in Leadership
We learn from our successes and our failures, and hopefully we also learn from the successes and failures of others so save us some pain. Our upcoming Soundview Live webinars provide access to the lessons
Continue ReadingUnleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
CREATIVE CONFIDENCE Everyone Is Creative, Even You The core argument of Creative Confidence is simple: Everyone can be creative. Those who see themselves as non-creative might bristle at the notion. But David Kelley and Tom
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