Sometimes all you need is a little nudge
ARE you holding off on pursuing a new initiative because you’re in your comfort zone?
Do you have a friend whose potential is obvious but they spend all of their time talking big, partying and generally goofing around?
Sometimes all you need is the smallest nudge to get out of your comfort zone to where the magic happens.
Keep pushing, encourage others, you’re closer than you think.
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Steve Jobs narrates the first “Think Different” Apple commercial “Here’s to the Crazy Ones”.
It never aired.
Too soon?
WHEN someone dies it is cruel to make jokes at their expense immediately thereafter.
However, not just any crackpot loony has the ability to single handedly plunge an entire nation into abject poverty. Well done Kim!
Kim Jong Il, who passed away today (in case you missed the memo) will be fondly remembered along with other notable historical leaders such as Pol Pot (Cambodian genocide), Mao Tse-Tung (the Great Leap Backwards) and Adolf Hitler (The Holocaust).
Kim Jong Il was by all accounts a raving lunatic, and if you would like to laugh at his expense you can:
So, jokes aside, what can business leaders learn from one of the world’s worst leaders?
Luckily, Kim Jong Il was such a dreadful leader that it is very easy learn from his mistakes. Simply ask yourself “what would Kim have done?” and then do the opposite.
Here are three hand-picked leadership lessons brought to you by the dear leader:
MICHAEL Porter is the thought leader in the field of business strategy.
He has single-handedly shaped the way in which the world’s top business leaders think about competitive strategy and success. And his concepts like “competitive advantage”, “value chain” and “five forces” form the bedrock for management thinking about complex business issues.
Unfortunately, his frameworks are often bastardised, misused and misunderstood.
The good news is that there now appears to be a solution to this problem.
Joan Magretta, former editor at Harvard Business Review, launched today a book called Understanding Michael Porter
The book is said to be the first concise, accessible summary of Porter’s revolutionary thinking. To quote the Harvard Business Review:
Magretta uses her wide business experience to translate Porter’s powerful insights into practice and to correct the most common misconceptions … that competition is about being unique, not being the best; that it is a contest over profits, not a battle between rivals; that strategy is about choosing to make some customers unhappy, not being all things to all customers.
As an amazing bonus, you can read the introduction to the book for free here.
If interested, you can visit Amazon, read the reviews and consider buying the book: click here
As an aside, your author has not yet read the book (but intends to do so).
If you have read the book, what did you think?
Post a comment below. We would be interested to know your thoughts.
