http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:32:33 -0700 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:18:57 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d21-What-Innovators-Can-Learn-from-Bill-Belichick?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner          Scott Anthony Here is an excerpt from an article featured by the Harvard Business blog. You can read the complete article by visiting http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org. What Innovators Can Learn from Bi... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:18:57 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d21-What-Innovators-Can-Learn-from-Bill-Belichick?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d21-The-best-book-ever-on-leadership?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner Xenophon (430-354 BC)  What would be your choice?In The Practice of Management, published in 1954, Peter Drucker write: “The first systematic book on leadership is: the Kyropaidaia of Xenophon – himself no mean leader of men –... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:16:38 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d21-The-best-book-ever-on-leadership?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d21-The-Turd-Seller?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner As revealed in The Best of Business, a book published by The Economist in collaboration with Pegasus Books in 2009, William Gibbs (1790-1875) became an exceptionally wealthy man by selling guano, seabird dung, that is rich in nitrates and phosphat... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:16:02 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d21-The-Turd-Seller?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Book-review-Immunity-to-Change?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your OrganizationRobert Kegan and Lisa Laskow LaheyHarvard Business School Press (2009)There are many reasons why it is so difficult to overcome what James O'Toole aptl... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:56:00 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Book-review-Immunity-to-Change?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Book-review-A-Class-with-Drucker?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher William A. Cohen AMACOM (207) What we have in this volume is a wealth of Cohen's memories of the years (from 1975 until 1979) when as a student at... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:02:01 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Book-review-A-Class-with-Drucker?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Interview-William-A-Cohen?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner Currently, Cohen is founder and president of The Institute of Leader Arts. He is also a retired major general from the U.S. Air Force Reserve. After graduating from West Point, Cohen flew 174 combat missions in A-26 aircraft in the Vietnam War. He... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:26:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Interview-William-A-Cohen?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Book-review-The-Buyout-of-America?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis Josh Kosman Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2009)In the Introduction, Josh Kosman offers what he calls a “little primer” on how private equity firms operate, e... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:02:03 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Book-review-The-Buyout-of-America?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Book-review-The-Connectors?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner The Connectors: How the World’s Most Successful Businesspeople Build Relationships and Win Clients for Life Maribeth Kuzmeski John Wiley & Sons (2009) As I began to read this book, I was reminded of the fact that Charles Lindberg... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:23:12 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Book-review-The-Connectors?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Book-review-How-Remarkable-Women-Lead?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston with Geoffrey Lewis Crown Business (2009) As I read this book co-authored by Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston, with substantial assistance p... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:04:46 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Book-review-How-Remarkable-Women-Lead?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Jonah-Lehrer-on-Steven-Pinkers-The-Stuff-of-Thought?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner Here is an excerpt from a review that appeared in the Washington Post on December 23, 2007. On Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker pitches himself as the broker of a scientific compromise between &ldq... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:48:18 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Jonah-Lehrer-on-Steven-Pinkers-The-Stuff-of-Thought?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Steven-Pinker-on-Malcolm-Gladwells-What-the-Dog-Saw?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner Here is an excerpt from a review that appeared in the November 15, 2009, issue of The New York Times. Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective Steven Pinker What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell 410 pp. Little, Brown &a... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:46:10 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Steven-Pinker-on-Malcolm-Gladwells-What-the-Dog-Saw?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d13-Book-review-Sway?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman Broadway Books (2008) The Brothers Brafman seem to have an insatiable curiosity about what may, at first, seem to be aberrational human behavior but is in fact ... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:38:32 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d13-Book-review-Sway?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Modest-proposals?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner              Welcome! Because it is unrealistic to expect that anything I propose on New Year’s Eve would immediately occur upon the arrival of 2010, I offer the following now to allo... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:42:47 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Modest-proposals?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Book-review-What-the-Dog-Saw?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown & Company (2009) In this volume, we have 19 of Gladwell’s best essays, all of which appeared in The New Yorker. They are organized within three Parts: Obsessiv... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:31:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Book-review-What-the-Dog-Saw?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d10-Interview-Seth-Godin?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner          Seth Godin Godin is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. An author of twelve books that have been bestsellers around the world, his most recent include Tribes, The Dip, and Meatball... Seth Godin major business issues Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:08:43 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d10-Interview-Seth-Godin?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Roger-Nierenberg-on-leading-by-listening?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner Nierenberg is a distinguished conductor of major symphony orchestras throughout the world. He is also the author of Maestro: the Surprising Story About Leading by Listening in which he suggests all manner of parallels between a CEO and a symphony ... & Craig on high-impact management Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:07:54 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Roger-Nierenberg-on-leading-by-listening?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Paul-Johnson-Master-Chef-of-the-Intellectual-Feast?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner             Creators Born in 1928 in Manchester, England, Johnson is an English Roman Catholic journalist, historian, speechwriter, and author. He was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College, ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:27:16 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Paul-Johnson-Master-Chef-of-the-Intellectual-Feast?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Rosabeth-MossKanter-on-promises-not-to-believe-or-make?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner Here is an excerpt from a recent post at the Harvard Business blog. To read the complete article, please visit http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org. Promises You Should Never Believe (or Make) Rosabeth Moss Kanter Promises, promise... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:21:15 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Rosabeth-MossKanter-on-promises-not-to-believe-or-make?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Holiday-Gift-Suggestions-Business-Books?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner           Yale University It is that time of the year again when family members and friends ask me to suggest business books (published in 2009) that could be holiday gifts. Here’s my rule-of-thumb:... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:21:36 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Holiday-Gift-Suggestions-Business-Books?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d5-The-power-of-the-oneliner?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner        Mark Twain Opinions are divided among experts on U.S. history as to who introduced the one-liner that has since become the staple of stand-up comedians as well as the sound byte preferred by politicians. I agree... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:46:43 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-14678-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m11d5-The-power-of-the-oneliner?cid=exrss-Dallas-Business-Commentary-Examiner