Archive for February, 2009
If you had enough time to read 100 business books in depth, what do you think you might learn? Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten did that for all of us and this month published “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time” to share what they found. Jack and Todd run 800-CEO-Read and usually are selling books, not writing them. But they have seen a lot of business books over the years and took the time to summarize the best of what they have seen up through books published in 2007. They actually found that there are only five problems that all of these books truly addressed at the core. Todd tells us what those are in the interview that follows…
This week was the most amazing industry gathering I’ve attended in a long time. This meeting was held using Cisco’s telepresence meeting rooms in San Jose, Seattle, New Jersey and New York, as well as a lot of people joining by WebEx. The meeting was a gathering of professionals, across many different companies and industries, who were all responsible in some way for innovation at their companies. I was honored to have the group request copies of BIG Ideas to BIG Results for all of the participants. It turns out that most people in corporations agree that the problem with innovation is not a lack of ideas and creativity. The problem is in effectively hearing those ideas and then organizing to get them implemented, the topic of our book. (more…)
Today I met with about 50 professionals with a variety of experiences with M&A integration at the Association for Corporate Growth. The topic of my presentation was to share the true keys to success that have made the difference in companies who successfuly create shareholder value through business combinations. Several people were interested in getting a copy of the slides so I’m trying out an online publishing tool called DoXtop to easily share these.
In addition to the presentation, I’ve also included a link to a companion article to go with the presentation for those who are interested.
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Michael Kanazawa shares recent insights and tips about the no-nonsense, results-driven approach to driving business breakthroughs found in his new book Big Ideas to Big Results.