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Measure What Matters
In the spring of 1999, John Doerr walked into a conference room at Google’s Mountain View office carrying a PowerPoint deck of thirteen slides. The company had just closed $11.8 million in funding, had fewer than forty employees, and had been operating for less than a year. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were brilliant engineers…
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Dare to Lead
Brené Brown spent nearly two decades studying what she calls “the anatomy of courage.” Her TED talk on vulnerability has over 60 million views. Her earlier books, “The Gifts of Imperfection” and “Daring Greatly,” turned her into one of the most recognizable voices in American self-help. But “Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole…
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Thinking at the Speed of Bias
Bias is not a flaw in human thinking. It is a feature. The human brain processes somewhere between 11 million and 40 million bits of sensory information per second, and consciously handles perhaps 40 of them. Everything else gets routed through unconscious pattern-matching systems that are fast, efficient, and breathtakingly prone to error when the…
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Leaders Eat Last
Leaders Eat Last was published in January 2014 by Portfolio/Penguin. Simon Sinek, best known for his TED talk “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” and his earlier book Start with Why, follows up here with a deeper and more biologically grounded investigation into what makes teams work. The title comes from a practice Sinek observed in…
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Outliers
Outliers: The Story of Success arrived in bookstores in November 2008 and went straight to the top of the New York Times bestseller list, where it stayed for eleven consecutive weeks. Malcolm Gladwell, already known for The Tipping Point and Blink, had trained his lens on a question that sounds straightforward: why do some people…
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