Mighty Midsized Companies How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers by Robert Sher What are the seven “silent growth killers” that plague mid-sized companies and can cripple growth. Robert and I dig into the book and talk about controlling your growth, building liquidity and plan for what’s learning around the next corner. We talk about using…
The Feedback Imperative How to Give Everyday Feedback to Speed Up Your Team’s Success by Anna Carroll Getting feedback on your job performance is critical to a persons feeling of accomplishment. I talk with Anne about feedback cultures and the power and effectiveness to transform and motivate your team or company. The book lays out…
China: The Big Lie? The Truth of Trillions in a Culture of Cash by Mario Cavolo In the years since China’s rapid economic rise, its middle class is now sitting on up to 10 trillion US dollars’ worth of savings. How we understand this “off the books” economy is going to fundamentally alter our view…
The Risk-Driven Business Model Four Questions That Will Define Your Company Hardcover by Karan Girotra (and Serguei Netessine) I have an edifying conversation with Karan about business models. I discover that understanding risk is a key component to growing a business. But how do you build with risk factored in. I discover that id you play…
Consiglieri Leading From the Shadows By Richard Hytner The number one position in a company is often a place that many aspire to but few gain and with this book we learn that the adviser for that position is often overlooked. We discover that by helping the ones in the hot-seat if often a better…
The Decoded Company Know Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers by Leerom Segal and Aaron Goldstein Google amazes us by generating answers before we’ve even finished asking a question. Facebook curates our uniquely individual news-feeds. At most workplaces, it’s still one-size-fits-all policies, processes, and tools. Yet companies like Google, Starbucks, and Whole Foods…
Make Waves Be the One to Start Change at Work and in Life by Patti Johnson For many of us making waves has a negative connotation but this book will flip that thinking 180 degrees. Power motivating learning is found in this book and if you plan to make change or want to help others…
Relevance The Power to Change Minds and Behavior and Stay Ahead of the Competition by Andrea Coville Today it’s not about what you say, it’s about who would get value from what you say. As the book title says it’s allows about relevance and in today’s super social market you are either relevant and “shared”…
Making Your Work Work How to Build a System of Profound Knowledge By Jan Gillett Jan talks about an amazing process that he learnt from his mentor Dr W Edwards Deming. In short it is a system that can revolutionize how you manage a team, company or any process within that company. It’s all about…
Leadership Blind-spots How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses that Matter by Robert Bruce Shaw Blind spots can be deadly in traffic, but what about a board meeting? This book looks at what leaders should be looking for and why. Getting blindsided in a meeting with no idea of why it happened is a…