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Michael Fitzgerald writes about innovation and other big ideas in business for publications like the New York Times, The Economist, Fast Company, Inc. and CIO. He's worked as a writer or editor at Red Herring, ZDNet, TechTV and Computerworld, and has received numerous awards as a writer and editor. Most...- more about Michael Fitzgerald »
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- Ten Steps to Being a Great Manager
- Top ten lists on blogs often represent cynical efforts to get more traffic. They may make a few good points, but mostly spout pablum. But there are good ones. The newspaper management guru Jill Geisler has assembled a list of Ten Things Great Bosses Know that draw from columns she's...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- A Qik Look at "Silicon Dragon"
- Earlier this year I reviewed Silicon Dragon, which gives us a look at China's high-tech industry and tries to see which of them will become the Chinese counterparts to Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar and the Google boys. Think of them as Chinese entries into the business Olympics....
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Planning for the Upturn
- Downturn? Upturn! It might sound like the PBS version of how the top-floor management tries to bewitch what's left of the rest of the company into being happy about the latest restructuring. But it could also be a sound plan for a firm that would otherwise simply flounder under...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- "Good To Great" a Big Mistake?
- So, are the best business books of all-time worth reading? Steven "Freakonomics" Levitt says maybe not. In his latest column in the NYT, From Good to Great to Below Average, he talks about finally getting around to reading Jim Collins' "Good to Great." ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- The Best Business Books Ever?
- BusinessPundit has assembled a list of the 25 Best Business Books ever. It's a good list, though it's a head-scratcher to see "In Search of Excellence" as its top choice, especially with the criticisms that book has faced over the years, since almost every...
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Mix in Some Mentoring Magic
- Mentoring done right gives companies a powerful tool for developing employees, something most companies don't do much of anymore. BNET's How to Start a Mentorship Program offers a good jumping-off point. It sugarcoats in a few places -- for instance, top executives must be champions of...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Innovation Is Not Overrated
- I was catching up on Sean Silverthorne's excellent blog and found this link to a post by Scott Berkun on Why Innovation is Overrated. Berkun makes a few reasonable points -- most people don't talk about 'innovation' in everyday conversation. Where it does get used, it's done...
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Review Roundup
- 800CEORead posted a roundup of reviews of business books in major business magazines, covering The Economist, Portfolio, Business Week and Fortune. The two most promising seem to be William J. Bernstein's "A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World" and Richard J. Elkus Jr.'s "Winner Take All:...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Behind the Bust: Bad Ethics Or Bad Luck?
- Is Wall Street's manage-to-the-numbers approach the reason we're in the economic mess we're in? That's the argument of Gresham's Law and the Shaky Nature of Today's Business Ethics on the Slow Leadership blog. Gresham's Law, it tells us, is a 16th century maxim that 'bad' money (with...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- A New Vision of Leadership
- In a move that's either completely self-aggrandizing or wildly enthusiastic, Tom Peters gives two thumbs up all by himself to Leadership the Hard Way, by Dov Frohman. Either way, it's obvious from his post, Believe It or Not: An Original Take on Leadership that he likes the book, which...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Beach Reading for Business
- Just in time for the home stretch of summer, Joe Nocera of the New York Times a paper I sometimes write for has posted his list of the the best business books ever Nocera has been a top business writer for decades now -- for instance, his story...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Why We Can't Stop Making Bad Decisions
- Might the bailout of the week strategy in vogue in Washington be simply irrational behavior on an institutional level? I hinted at this in Peeling Away the Economic Onion. I ran across this Shankar Vedantam column in the Washington Post, Taking More Risks Because You Feel...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Peeling Away the Economic Onion
- The Onion has a cunning bit of satire, Recession-Plagued Nation Demands A New Bubble To Invest In , that offers a welcome bit of relief from the oppressive sense of doom that pervades most financial news right now. A sample bit: ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Tips for Telecommuters
- Slacker Manager has a weak post on telecommuting, 8 Tips on How to Work From Home: 28 Years of Experience, by David Zinger . It's really more like eight thoughts. Only two seem like tips to me -- the rest are observations or benefits based...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Brand Resilience
- Resilience is one of the most important traits a successful human can have. It can also work for business brands, argue Booz Allen Hamilton consultants Nikhil Bahadur and John Jullens in strategy+business more or less a Booz house organ. In New Life for Tired Brands, they start with a mini-study...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Stop Being "Distracted"
- Maggie Jackson's book Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age," is getting real buzz. I got this subject line in my email yesterday: Are You Feeling Distracted? (My first thought: just about every minute of the day.) Are you feeling saturated...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Change Is Easier Than You Think
- In a fun and mind-turning essay, Michael T. Kanazawa argues People Don't Hate Change, They Hate How You're Trying To Change Them It starts out with a cold slap in the face: "According to a summary of over 40 research studies on change, the success rate of...
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- New Business Word of the Day: Chindia
- ChangeThis has an excerpt from "Chindia Rising:How China and India Will Benefit Your Business," by Jagdish N. Sheth. If the excerpt provides a model for the whole book, the writing is slightly jarring, like the name 'Chindia' itself. Many of the assertions seem overstated. Sheth argues for...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Three Obstacles to Citizen Innovation
- One of the most interesting emerging ideas in business today is tapping into user communities for innovative ideas. Open source software offers a prime example of this sort of citizen innovation (a phrase I may be stealing from someone, but if so, it's inadvertent). Software isn't the only...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- America's Place in the New Global Order
- The ominous sounding "The Quandary of a Superpower As Others Race to Catch Up" yields a lovely, concise "compare and contrast" review of two books about America's future in Sunday's New York Times. Reviewer Stephen Kotkin summarizes and analyzes "The Return of History and the End of Dreams," by the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
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