Truth be told, 20 pages into Mark W. Johnson’s Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal, I figured I’d hate it.  Nothing personal; Johnson’s local and surely kind to small creatures, but with lines like, “I lay out in detail a structured process for designing new business models and developing them into profitable, thriving enterprises, and investigate the managerial challenges…

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    This month’s selection is big, thick, and heavy.  Called The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, it’s loaded with all kinds of stuff to keep you up at night… even well after you put down this page-turner and turn off the light.  Got a big ol’ appetite for understanding a global economic meltdown, chaos theory, Texas hold ’em, and why your local weather forecaster gets…

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  Over the past month, I mentioned to a few folks that I was reading a book on introversion, and for the most part their reactions made me feel like I’d said I was interning at a leper colony.  Why is that?  “We live in a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal – the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable…

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  As the nuns used to say, put on your thinking caps.  Remember that, when you’d have to fake-tie on your cap?  (No, well this would be a good time to make fun of me, now wouldn’t it?)  This month’s selection, Creative Thinkering by Michael Michalko, is like one long session with Sister Helen Margaret and the thinking cap.  Michalko takes the reader through numerous experiments and…

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  Your challenge this month is to determine what type of leader you are and what kind of organization you want to run.  The first step is picking up a copy of Tribal Leadershipby Dave Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright. This is a sometimes humorous and highly meaningful read on building your tribe (defined herein as 20 – 150 people) in such a way…

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