Leadership
If You Have Not Found The Life You Want, This Could Be Why
If You Have Not Found The Life You Want, This Could Be Why One of the reasons I enjoy reading books is because they help me discover new books to read in the future. In Satya Nadella’s Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone, I noticed Nadella’s…
Read MoreHow Did Microsoft Change Its Culture So Quickly?
How Did Microsoft Change Its Culture So Quickly? Microsoft has fully transformed as a company since 2014, when Satya Nadella became the CEO. The most noticeable change is its new culture. An essential concept to keep in mind is individuals shape the culture of an organization, how the company thinks, and how it acts. Nadella…
Read MoreWhat Important Factor Led To Microsoft’s Success?
What Important Factor Led To Microsoft’s Success? Rita McGrath introduced me to Satya Nadella’s book Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone. In my previous post, I mentioned that Nadella had been widely praised for transforming Microsoft and making it relevant again in the world of the…
Read MoreHow To Lead During A Time Of Change?
How To Lead During A Time Of Change? I have already written several blog posts based on Rita McGrath’s book Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen. Because it covers a variety of topics pertaining to my research, I took notes one page after another as I kept reading.…
Read MoreHow To Use Discovery-Driven Planning At Your Company?
How To Use Discovery-Driven Planning At Your Company? In her book, Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen, Rita McGrath provides a specific approach for confronting inflection points once they have been identified. This approach is called discovery-driven planning. Jeff Bezos has observed that seeing inflections points coming is…
Read MorePowerful Leadership Differences Between Facebook And Microsoft
Powerful Leadership Differences Between Facebook And Microsoft Facebook and Microsoft. It will be hard to find a person in a civilized world who has not heard of these two companies. Both are in the tech industry. Both have changed the way their customers interact with computers or communicate with family and friends. Their respective founders…
Read MoreWhat Are Inflection Points And How To Recognize Them?
What Are Inflection Points And How To Recognize Them? Maybe it is just me, but everywhere I turn, I hear someone talk about inflection points. That should not be surprising, given all the upheaval we are experiencing every day. Some of these changes could be inflection points, which brings up two questions. What are inflection…
Read MoreHow To Build An Original Corporate Culture?
How To Build An Original Corporate Culture? There is one phrase that used to drive me crazy during my corporate world days. That phrase was, “we have always done it this way.” It was often a harbinger of a forthcoming battle to implement new ideas, especially when more than one person on a team shared…
Read MoreHow To Deal With The Current Paradigm Shift?
How To Deal With The Current Paradigm Shift? My fondest memory from graduate school is the very first course I had to take – Executive Communication and Leadership. The professor genuinely loved teaching and interacting with his students. He used to start each class by projecting an image of an artwork by one of the…
Read MoreDid The Knowledge Society Contribute To The Student Debt Crisis?
Did The Knowledge Society Contribute To The Student Debt Crisis? “Successful careers are not ‘planned.’ They are the careers of people who are prepared for the opportunity because they know their strengths, the way they work, and their values.” – Peter Drucker Knowledge Worker Peter Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker” in 1959 and wrote…
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