by Jamie Notter | Aug 7, 2007 | Leadership
There is an interview in HBR with Katsuaki Watanabe, who is the head of Toyota. Toyota is about to become the #1 car company in the world (in March of 2007 Toyota had a profit of $13.7 billion, compared to GM’s los of $1.97 billion and Ford’s loss of $12.61 billion)....
by Jamie Notter | Jul 31, 2007 | Books and Reading, Conflict, Leadership, Managing People
In Associations Now, Newton Holt interviews Stephen M.R. Covey (son of the other Stephen Covey), who has a book out about trust in the business world. I particularly liked his response to Newton’s question about how to talk about trust to utilitarian people who see...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 16, 2007 | Books and Reading, Leadership
I’ve already quoted it on the Association Renewal Blog, but Guy Kawasaki has an interview on his blog with Jeffrey Pfeffer, who apparently has a new book out, called What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Management. Pfeffer is one of my favorites. He...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 6, 2007 | Conflict, Leadership
Regular readers of my blog should be aware that I’m a big fan of Patrick Lencioni’s writing. Perhaps his most famous book is The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and I especially like it because of the central role conflict plays as a dysfunction. Do note, however, that...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 5, 2007 | Individual Development, Leadership
Ben Martin suggests playing chess as a way to develop integrative thinking (becoming more aware of how one move will play out three or four moves later). Good suggestion, Ben! So far, I have come up with two things that have worked for me: Meditation. By sitting still...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 3, 2007 | Individual Development, Leadership
More from Roger Martin about how successful leaders think. He argues that when faced with a problem or challenge, leaders work through four steps: Determining salience Analyzing causality Envisioning the decision architecture Achieving resolution. Conventional...
