from the Business Insider: You’ll find nuggets of insight from game-changing executives, hard-charging start-up founders, and ground-breaking researchers. It’s a great reading list, from both current and classic thinkers like Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg, Carol Dweck, Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin, among others view the summaries here  

by Karina Mikhli for ActionableBooks.com The Learning Network and its’ weekends brought senior thought leaders in management and organizational development together on a regular basis, allowing them to compare notes on how they taught others. At one such weekend, during a brainstorming session, the topic of how they learned came up. This idea so fascinated

from McKinsey Quarterly- by Pierre Gurdjian, Thomas Halbeisen, and Kevin Lane: Sidestepping 4 common mistakes can help companies develop stronger and more capable leaders, save time and money, and boost morale. “We’ve talked with hundreds of chief executives about the struggle, observing both successful initiatives and ones that run into the sand. In the process,

from McKinsey Quarterly-by Nate Boaz and Erica Ariel Fox: Anyone who pulls the organization in new directions must look inward as well as outward. Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist, famously wrote, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Tolstoy’s dictum is a useful starting point for any executive engaged

From escapefromcubiclenation.com: Many entrepreneurs dream of starting a business in their garage, scaling it, then selling it to Google for a billion dollars. Such things rarely happen. But scaling happens every day, in our career, our business or our workplace. We are constantly trying to improve ourselves, share our ideas, and put in systems and

Great ideas alone don’t change our world. Great ideas that inspire us to take action do. This 10 page guide provides 11 tips and ideas from Simon on how to speak in front of groups in a way that inspires people to take action. Tips include: – Speak to those who will listen – Own