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The best manager is often neither the most outstanding professional, the best business getter, nor even the best “financial brain.”
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
FIVE TRAITS OF SUCCESSFUL DIRECTORS
Jonathan Littman • The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
Day after day we seek an answer to the ageless question Aristotle posed in Ethics: How should a human being lead his life?
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Use good judgment when making decisions and apply principle, not rules,
Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People for sales, Andy Grove’s High Output Management for CEOs, or Robert Cialdini’s Influence for marketing and personal relationships.
Tyler Cowen • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
Moral: Don’t hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy-artists to look over his shoulder and suggest improvements.
Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
Business strategist Peter Drucker wrote that what gets measured, gets managed.
Howard Jacobson • Sick to Fit: Three simple techniques that got me from 420 pounds to the cover of Runner’s World, Good Morning America, and the Today Show
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies,