This is the unfortunate story of what happens when a business manager chooses the path of least resistance. This path is known in some cultures as flushing money down the toilet, flinging profit out the window, and shredding company funds. Ruthless, regrettable behavior to be sure. The tale begins on an upbeat note: we had our final blowout party at…
Book Review – Change by Design by Tim Brown
Design thinking is an art that marries human behavior to idea generation. IDEO, a fixture in Silicon Valley for over 20 years with offices now across the globe, is the company best known for designing solutions to complicated matters. Tim Brown, the company’s CEO, wrote Change By Design and shares stories of how IDEO drives innovation in everything from improving…
Book Review – 10% Happier by Dan Harris
If you’re guided by voices, you’re not alone. Dan Harris, ABC anchorman and author of the terrific 10% Happier, has them in his head. So do I (or using bizarre Bostonian phrasing, so don’t I). Harris writes that these voices are “engaged in a ceaseless stream of thinking – most of it negative, repetitive, and self-referential.” Overall, we’re talking…
School’s Out – Beach Reads!
Okay, enough with all the business books already! Below are other selections I’ve read recently for pleasure and thoroughly enjoyed. Hopefully you will as well. Live By Night, Dennis Lehane – This is Lehane’s second offering of the so-called Joe Coughlin series in which the lead badass runs roughshod over Prohibition from Boston to Miami to Cuba. If you’re a…
Buyer’s Manual, or: Far from the Madding Crowd of Foundation Kickers
I’m proud to say the best deal I’ve ever been a part of is coming together nicely as I write this. It’s the dream situation for me to represent – the flexible, reasonable seller, with a genuine goal of easing into retirement over the next 12+ months, a grandchild-filled future that has already been funded through smart, conservative investments. …