Book Review
Offers a comprehensive guide to proactive problem-solving in social contexts, emphasizing collaboration, real-world examples, and corporate social responsibility. A must-read for CEOs.
Offers a comprehensive guide to proactive problem-solving in social contexts, emphasizing collaboration, real-world examples, and corporate social responsibility. A must-read for CEOs.
Provides a roadmap for transitioning from good to great, focusing on key principles like clarity, motivation, and disciplined systems.
‘OK, I’m motivated now,’ he muttered, to nobody in particular. ‘Is it time for some beer?’ Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle; negative visualisation generates a vastly more dependable calm.
“Vince had worked with a top management consulting firm before B-school. During his two years at Berkeley, he followed the stock market religiously, maintained contact with business associates, and read as many analyst reports as he could get his hands on. He graduated near the top of his class. Rich also earned impressive grades but maintained a relatively low profile in the process. To earn extra cash, he waited tables and tutored undergraduate students, and when he wasn’t working or in class, he could be found at the psychology lab where his wife-to-be worked. Because Rich spent so much time away from the business school, he didn’t establish quite as many close relationships with classmates as most others did. When Vince decided to start his own consulting firm just a few years out of school, no one was surprised. When Rich did the same thing two months later, no one noticed.”
Excerpt From: Patrick M. Lencioni. “The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive.”
“I wanted to be a theoretical physicist, and so I went to Princeton. I was a really good student, with an A+ in almost everything. I was on an honors physics track, which starts out with a hundred students, and by the time you get to quantum mechanics, it’s about thirty. So I’m in quantum mechanics, probably in junior year, and I’ve also been taking computer science and electrical engineering classes, which I’m also enjoying. But I can’t solve this one really hard partial differential equation. I’d been studying with my roommate, Joe, who also was really good at math. The two of us worked on this one homework problem for three hours and got nowhere, and we finally looked up at each other over the table at the same moment and said, “Yosanta”—the smartest guy at Princeton. ”
Excerpt From: Jeff Bezos. “Invent and Wander.”