Co-Editors Louis Carter, Roland L. Sullivan, Marshall Goldsmith, David Ulrich, and Norm Smallwood Change Agents Will Shift Between: Students Teachers Detectives Barbarians Clocks Talismans Advocates Challengers Best Chapters and Links to Their Notes: 1.2 Driving Cultural Transformation During Large Scale Change 1.4 Navigating the White Water of Organization-Wide Change: Best Practice Principles for Change Management […]
Thomas Siebel, 2019 Chapter 1: Punctuated Equilibrium Punctuated Equilibrium — change happens in bursts, we’re in one now Don’t focus on growth, focus on creating revolutions Chapter 2: Digital Transformation Transform or die Waves of change Digitalization (using computers at all, up to the 80s) The Internet (90s – today) Today’s digital transformation is the […]
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, 2015 My notes 1. Creating Blue Oceans Value Innovation p 13 Differentiation and low cost simultaneously Align innovation with utility, price, and cost Creates value in an innovative way, basically 2. Analytical Tools and Frameworks Strategy Canvas Four actions framework Reconstruct Market Boundaries Path 1: Look across alternative industries […]
By John Doerr Overall notes: Planning stage matters, dramatically, if you’re truly using them to focus and say no to other things They should enable you to say no, or at least to ask if this gets me closer or farther from my goal Cadence matters, quarterly mostly, so you can more quickly pivot if […]
Quotes worth referencing: p. 6 They show that statistically, the more data driven a firm is, the more productive it is. p. 9 What can I now do that I couldn’t do before, or do better than I could before? p. 13 Understanding data science is critical, because “unlike other technical projects, data science is supporting […]
By Susan Cain Key takeaways: Being introverted is good, but introvert/extrovert pairs work well Groupthink is awful Open offices with no quiet spaces are awful Be careful of heeding the loudest voice Take notes on the areas about how to raise a good kid (I think the chapter about temperament) Intro They prefer to devote […]
Top 10ish: Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel The English and Their History by Robert Tombs Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove Nature’s Metropolis by William Cronon What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Imagesby W. J. T. Mitchell The Black […]