Business Insight for MBAs and Managers

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I have been reading and adding useful content to this site since late 1999. That is a long time and a lot of content. So, perhaps having a look at some of my favorites will prove somewhat helpful for getting started. Unfortunately, I haven't always been great about using the favorites feature myself, especially in recent years, so many of my favorites skew toward older content. Still, I hope it will be of some use. You may also want to check out the most popular content on the site.

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Articles

  1. "F" Words for Effective Meetings
  2. 'Green-ness Can Be Measured
  3. 8 Ways to Make Your Direct Marketing Copy Work Harder
  4. 9 Ways to Win on the Web
  5. 12-Step Foolproof Sales Letter Template
  6. Accountability: Effective Managers Go First
  7. Achieving Growth by Setting New Strategies for New Markets
  8. Activity-Based Costing in the Info Age, Part I
  9. A Different Game: Wharton Book Explores Managing Emerging Technologies
  10. Ad Placement: You're Getting Warmer
  11. AdRelevance State of Online Advertising Report (.pdf)
  12. A faster way to count items in an Excel list
  13. All for the Cause
  14. All That Glitters is Not Sold
  15. A Matter of Metrics: Using Web Data to Improve Sales Performance
  16. A Nation of Spendthrifts? An Analysis of Trends in Personal and Gross Saving
  17. Are boards and CEOs accountable for the right level of work?
  18. Are cultural differences in Europe on the decline?
  19. Are You Marked for Greatness?
  20. Ask The Right Security Questions Before Choosing An ASP
  21. Assessment of Excellence in Procurement
  22. Assuming Leadership: The First 100 Days
  23. A Strategy for Supporting Innovation and Growth in Times of High Uncertainty (.pdf)
  24. Background Report: Employee Stock Options (.pdf)
  25. Becoming a Prepared Acquirer
  26. Behind the Numbers: The Mystery of B-to-B Forecasts Revealed
  27. Benchmarking Innovation Best Practice
  28. Beyond Supply Chains: Empowering Responsible Value Chains
  29. Board Briefing on IT Governance, 2nd Edition
  30. Boom or Bust?
  31. Bounce Rate: Sexiest Web Metric Ever?
  32. Brave New World: Eight Steps to a Winning Startup
  33. Building an Innovation Dynasty
  34. Building Companies, Building Communities: Entrepreneurs in the New Economy
  35. Building Leaders at Every Level
  36. Built to Flip
  37. Business-To-Business Platforms: Let's Make A Business-To-Business Deal
  38. Business with a Conscience: Do It Right
  39. Buy, Sell or Trade?
  40. Casting off the chains
  41. Challenges in Building World Class Technology Companies
  42. Computer Documentation Library: On-Line Software Tutorials
  43. Content-Delivery Services Can Avert Traffic Jams
  44. Corporate Breakups
  45. Corporate Governance: Hard Facts about Soft Behaviors
  46. Corporate Portfolio Management: Theory and Practice
  47. Creating a Product Strategy
  48. Creating Leadership Magic
  49. Debugging Executive Decision Making
  50. Dee Hock on Management
  51. Delivering "Home Run" Presentations
  52. Deming's 14 Points
  53. Designing the Corporate Center: How to Turn Strategy into Structure
  54. Discontinuous Improvement: Five Catapulting Ideas
  55. Does strategy really matter anymore?
  56. Do Talk to Strangers: Encouraging Performative Ties to Create Competitive Advantage
  57. Do You Have the Will to Lead?
  58. Do You Need to be a Hero?
  59. Do You Need to Switch Your Pitch
  60. Dynamic Competitive Simulation: Wargaming as a Strategic Tool
  61. E-Procurement Is Not Electronic Purchasing
  62. Economic Man, Cleaner Planet
  63. Elite Graduate Expectations
  64. Elliott Jaques Levels With You
  65. ePodunk
  66. Equity Loans: How to Sell What You Do Not Own
  67. Escalation Dominance
  68. Europe Ventures Forth
  69. Executive Education: Managing by Dimensions
  70. Extending Product Life Cycle Stages
  71. Extreme Analysis for Extreme Project Management
  72. Fast Organizational Growth: Ten Insights From Successful Managers
  73. Fear and greed in VC funding
  74. Five Rules for Winning Emerging Market Consumers
  75. Freedom's Road
  76. Functional versus Unit Organizations
  77. Globalization Ledger™
  78. Go Global
  79. Growth’s Triple Crown
  80. Guiding Nonprofits Into the 21st Century
  81. Has Outsourcing Gone Too Far?
  82. He Who Is Always Right: Customer Relationship Management
  83. Hispanic Fact Pack
  84. Hope and Dreams
  85. How a Start-up Evolves
  86. How Business Strategy Tamed the "Invisible Hand"
  87. How Much Do You Know?
  88. How The World Works
  89. How to Convince Investors
  90. How to Raise Money
  91. How to Read a Business Book
  92. How to spot shareholder value?
  93. Ignoring Your Corporate Identity Can Sabotage Strategic Change
  94. Innovation: A Chimera No More
  95. In Search of Performance Anatomy
  96. Inside an Internet IPO
  97. In Sync: Aligning Costs with Customer Value Creation
  98. International Economic Trends
  99. Interview with Kenneth French
  100. Is Bigger always Better?
  101. Laying the Groundwork for a Successful IPO
  102. Leadership and the Learning Organization
  103. Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty
  104. Leadership in Transformation
  105. Leadership Is Confusing as Hell
  106. Learning Disabilities and Leadership
  107. Learning to Expect the Unexpected
  108. Let's Do Launch
  109. Let's Talk
  110. Life Is Negotiation: Field-Tested Techniques in Emotional Intelligence and Tactical Empathy from an FBI Negotiator
  111. Looking for Evidence of Accounting Chicanery? Try Digging Deeper
  112. Maintaining momentum in mergers
  113. Making a Market in Knowledge
  114. Managing Acquisitions to Change and Survive
  115. Marcus Buckingham Thinks Your Boss Has an Attitude Problem
  116. Marketing: Are You Really a Realist?
  117. Marketleap's Link Popularity Analysis Tool
  118. Mercenaries vs. Missionaries: John Doerr Sees Two Kinds of Internet Entrepreneurs
  119. Mind Your Core Business
  120. Moving Targets
  121. Negotiating: The Top Ten Ways That Culture Can Affect Your Negotiation
  122. New Concepts in Value-Based Management: TRS Mapping and Total Economic Profit
  123. New Tools for Negotiators
  124. Not Badly Paid But Paid Badly
  125. Not Quite As Per The Plan: Impact of Uncertainty on Project Management
  126. NVCA Model Venture Capital Financing Documents
  127. Oh, the Games Enron Played
  128. On the Profitability of Long-Life Customers in a Non-Contractual Setting: An Empirical Investigation and Implications...
  129. Organization: Helping People Pull Together
  130. Organizational factors and knowledge management within large marketing departments (.pdf)
  131. Organizing on the Edge: Meeting the Demand for Innovation and Efficiency (.pdf)
  132. Passing Judgment
  133. Performance Can’t Be Measured by Company Growth Alone
  134. Portals Pump Up Mom and Pop
  135. Positive Deviant
  136. Practical Knowledge Management: A Model That Works
  137. Pre-Money
  138. Protecting Your Most Valuable Asset: Intellectual Property
  139. Put Search Engine Marketing in Your Web Design
  140. Rational Reorganization
  141. RAVE™: Integrated Value Management for Customer, Human Supplier and Invested Capital
  142. Realize results: Busting three common myths of change management
  143. Real Options: Valuing Flexibility in Strategic Investments
  144. Red Ink
  145. Remuneration: Where We've Been, How We Got to Here, What are the Problems, and How to Fix Them
  146. Rethinking ROI
  147. Saudi Arabia
  148. Seeing Around Corners
  149. Separating Winners from Losers
  150. Setting Value, Not Price
  151. Sharing the Burden of Corporate Governance
  152. Social Irresponsibility in Management
  153. Sounds of Silence
  154. Special: Has B-school known the secrets of e-biz all along?
  155. Spirituality: The Emerging Context for Business Leadership
  156. Staff turnover and absenteeism - the costs
  157. Starring Roles
  158. Strategic Thinking and Strategy Analysis in Business - A Survey on the Major Lines
  159. Successful Employee Orientation (Part 3)
  160. The "Marketnomics" Difference: A Handy Tool for Maximizing Product Value
  161. The 'Rule of Three' in Europe
  162. The 6 Myths Of Creativity
  163. The 10 Principles of Organizational DNA
  164. The A.T. Kearney Strategy Chessboard
  165. The Age of Social Transformation
  166. The Art, Science, and Labor of Recruiting
  167. The Art Of E-Biz: The Good—And Not Good Enough—Of Web-site Design
  168. The Basics of Fundamental Analysis
  169. The Buffett Approach to Valuing Stocks
  170. The Cult of Three Cultures
  171. The Dilemma Doctors
  172. The End of the Endgame?
  173. The Golden Spike
  174. The History of Strategy and Its Future Prospects
  175. The Holy Grail of Shareholder Value Measurement
  176. The Hypomanic American
  177. The Inevitability of Managed Trade
  178. The Invisible Side of Leadership
  179. The Keiretsu System: Cracking or Crumbling? (.pdf)
  180. The Neuroscience of Leadership
  181. The New Transnational HR Model: Building A Chaordic Organization
  182. The next revolution in interactions
  183. The Performance Management System: Turning Strategies into Results
  184. The Perils of Impairment
  185. The Philosopher of Progress and Prosperity
  186. The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives
  187. The Political Economy of Open Source Software
  188. The Power of Productivity
  189. The Power of the Marginal
  190. The Realist's Guide to Moral Purpose
  191. The Rediscovery of Articulation
  192. The Right to Win
  193. The Role of Training for Boards of Directors
  194. The Secrets of Performance Appraisal
  195. The Six Roles of the Corporate Renegades
  196. The Skills Imperative: Talent and U.S. Competitiveness
  197. Three Rules for Exceptional Performance
  198. Time to Money
  199. Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational processes
  200. To Win the Respect of Followers, Leaders Need Personality Intelligence
  201. True Finance
  202. Upstarts: ASPs
  203. Use these Fourteen Points to improve the quality of your data
  204. Use this architecture to structure your business intelligence solutions
  205. Using Business Model Innovation to Reinvent the Core: Doing Something New with Something Old
  206. Using Purpose to Drive Innovation
  207. Venture Capital – An Overview of the Basic Issues and Challenges for Entrepreneurs
  208. Visualizing Organizations
  209. Waging War On Complexity
  210. Want a Company You Can Be Truly Proud of? Try a Business Ethics Program
  211. Want to Avoid a Firestone-like Fiasco? Try the M3 Concept
  212. Warren Buffett's Investment Checklist
  213. Wealth Distribution and the Role of Networks
  214. What do strategists actually do?
  215. What Every CEO Needs to Know About E-Business
  216. What is the Right Performance Management Approach for Your Organization?
  217. What Strategists Can Learn from Sartre
  218. What the CEO Can Do to Put Sales and Marketing on the Same Revenue Page
  219. Whistleblowing Towards Quality
  220. Who's accountable for IT?
  221. Who Knows Whom, And Who Knows What?
  222. Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?
  223. Why C.E.O.'s Succeed (and Why They Fail): Hunters and Gatherers in the Corporate Life
  224. Why Good Management Ideas Fail - The Neglected Power of Organizational Culture
  225. Why Knowledge Programs Fail: A C.E.O.'s Guide to Managing Learning
  226. Why People Buy
  227. Winning support for organizational change: Designing employee reward systems that keep on working
  228. Your Good Name: Before You Lose It
  229. Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

File Downloads

  1. Biz/Ed Business Series (Spreadsheet-Based Tutorial)
  2. Building Strategic Alliances.pdf
  3. Check Box Example Spreadsheet
  4. Global eCommerce Report (TNS Interactive)
  5. Hightech Metro Areas (.pdf)
  6. How To Do A Strategic Analysis
  7. Internet-at-a-glance1-00.pdf
  8. Internet Valuations.pdf
  9. MS Excel Conditional Row Delete Add-In
  10. Ross Report on Economic Performance of Metro Areas (.pdf)
  11. Stock Valuation Models Spreadsheet
  12. Structuring Your Startup.pdf
  13. TechnoBrands
  14. User Interface (UI) Design
  15. Valuation & Return Dynamics of New Ventures

Graphics | Images

  1. KPMG Approach for Creating, Categorizing, and Integrating both Traditional and Emerging Areas of Mea
  2. Managing Positive Responses to Change

Member-Contributed Content

  1. Business Book Summary Resources
  2. Guide to Case Analysis
  3. Three Excel Functions Every New Recruit Should Know Intimately

Multimedia Content

  1. Creating value: An Interactive Tutorial

Networking Content

  1. Networking Effectively - WSJ
  2. Networking Techniques and Informational Interviews (Olin)
  3. The Association of MBAs

Quotations

  1. Aaron De Smet, Mark Loch, Bill Schaninger
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff
  4. Adam Smith
  5. Adlai Stevenson
  6. Admiral Halsey
  7. Admiral Radford
  8. Adrian Levy
  9. Alain de Botton
  10. Alan Wolfe, John A. Deighton, Leora Kornfeld
  11. Albert Einstein
  12. Albert Einstein
  13. Albert Einstein
  14. Aldous Huxley
  15. Alfie Kohn
  16. Alfie Kohn
  17. Alfred Adler
  18. Alfred Adler
  19. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
  20. Allan Loren
  21. Alvin Toffler
  22. Alvin Toffler
  23. Alvin Toffler
  24. Alvin Toffler
  25. Alvin Toffler
  26. Amar Bhidé
  27. Anne Riches
  28. Anonymous
  29. Anonymous
  30. Antonio Damasio, head of neurology at the Universi
  31. Antonio Machado (Spanish poet)
  32. Aristotle
  33. Arthur Brisbane, American journalist (1864-1910)
  34. Arthur Ciancutti
  35. Arthur Ciancutti
  36. Arthur Ciancutti
  37. Art Kleiner
  38. Art Kleiner
  39. Art Kleiner
  40. Arun N. Maira
  41. Ashley Montagu
  42. Barry Minkow
  43. Bell Labs
  44. Ben Cheever
  45. Benjamin Franklin
  46. Benjamin Franklin
  47. Benjamin Franklin
  48. Benjamin Franklin
  49. Benjamin Schwarz
  50. Bernard Avishai
  51. Bernard Avishai
  52. Bernie Mills
  53. Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe
  54. Bhagvad-Gita
  55. Bill Bachrach
  56. Bill Cosby
  57. Bill Gates
  58. Bjorn Lomborg
  59. Bob Prosen
  60. Bob Prosen
  61. Bob Prosen
  62. Bob Sutton
  63. Bruce A. Pasternack
  64. Bruce A. Pasternack, Thomas D. Williams, and Paul
  65. Bruce A. Pasternack and James O'Toole
  66. Bruce D. Henderson
  67. Bruce M. Hubby
  68. Bruce M. Hubby
  69. Bruce Mau
  70. Bryan Eisenberg
  71. Bryan Smith and Joel Yanowitz
  72. Bryan Smith and Joel Yanowitz
  73. Buckingham and Coffman
  74. Business 2.0
  75. Calvin Coolidge
  76. Carl Pascarella
  77. Carol Dweck, Marina Krakovsky
  78. Carolyn Aiken and Scott Keller
  79. Charles Darwin
  80. Charles E. Lucier and Janet D. Torsilieri
  81. Charles F. Kiefer
  82. Charles F. Kiefer
  83. Charles F. Kiefer
  84. Charles F. Kiefer
  85. Charles Fishman
  86. Charles Handy
  87. Charles Handy
  88. Charles Kettering
  89. Charles Kettering
  90. Charles Roxburgh
  91. Charles W. Mulford
  92. Charlie Munger
  93. Charlie Munger
  94. Chris Argyris
  95. Chuck Peck (original source?)
  96. Clayton Christensen
  97. Clayton Christensen
  98. Clayton Christensen
  99. Clayton M. Christensen
  100. Clemmer Group
  101. Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.
  102. Col. George Reed
  103. Colin Powell
  104. Colin Powell
  105. Craig Mindrum
  106. Cyrus the Great
  107. Dacher Keltner
  108. Dacher Keltner
  109. Danah Zohar
  110. Dan Case (former CEO of Hambrecht & Quist)
  111. Dan Heath, Chip Heath
  112. Daniel Kahneman
  113. Daniel Kahneman
  114. Daniel Kahneman
  115. Daniel Okrent
  116. Daniel Webster
  117. Daniel Yankelovich
  118. Daniel Yankelovich
  119. David A. Garvin
  120. David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque
  121. David Allen
  122. David Allen
  123. David Gill
  124. David K. Hurst
  125. David K. Hurst
  126. David L. Dotlich
  127. David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
  128. David Pottruck
  129. David Reid, deputy chairman of Tesco
  130. Dean Kamen
  131. Dee Hock
  132. Dee Hock
  133. Dee Hock
  134. Dee Hock
  135. Dee Hock
  136. Denis Couillard
  137. Denis Nayden - Senior VP, General Electric Company
  138. Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer
  139. Dick Grote
  140. Dick Grote
  141. Dick Martin
  142. Dick Martin
  143. Dick Martin
  144. Dominic Barton, Roberto Newell, and Gregory Wilson
  145. Donald A. Schon
  146. Don Tapscott
  147. Douglas Rushkoff
  148. Dr. Dennis R. Deaton
  149. Dr. J M Sampath
  150. Dr. J M Sampath
  151. Dr. J M Sampath
  152. Dr. Larry Allums, director of the Dallas Institute
  153. Dr. Mark Albion
  154. Dr. Mark S. Albion
  155. Dr. Nathaniel Branden
  156. Dr. Rachel Remen
  157. Dr. Robert Jarvik
  158. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  159. E. M. Forster: Howard's End
  160. Earl Graves (Founder and publisher of Black Enterp
  161. Eduardo Schiehll and Paul Andre
  162. Edward Lawler III and Christopher G. Worley
  163. Eileen Shapiro
  164. Eleanor Roosevelt
  165. Eleanor Roosevelt
  166. Eleanor Roosevelt
  167. Eleri Sampson
  168. English proverb
  169. Eric Abrahamson
  170. Eric Bonabeau
  171. Eric Bonabeau and Valdis Krebs
  172. Eric Olsen
  173. Erik Brynjolfsson
  174. Erik Brynjolfsson
  175. Evan I. Schwartz
  176. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  177. Faith Ringgold
  178. Florian Mauerer, Hubertus Meinecke, Yves Morieux
  179. Frances Hesselbein
  180. Frances Hesselbein
  181. Frances Hesselbein
  182. Frances Hesselbein
  183. Frances Hesselbein
  184. Frances Hesselbein, Peter Senge
  185. Frances Hesselbein / Peter Drucker
  186. Francis Bacon
  187. Francis Bacon
  188. Francisco Dao
  189. Frank Kotsonis (?)
  190. Frederick W. Smith
  191. Fred Smith
  192. G. Bennett Stewart III
  193. G.K. Chesterton
  194. Gandhi
  195. Gary Klein and Karl E. Weick
  196. Gary R. Casselman & Timothy C. Daughtry
  197. Geary Rummler
  198. General Douglas MacArthur
  199. Geoffrey Moore
  200. Geoffrey Moore
  201. Geoffrey Moore
  202. George Bernard Shaw
  203. George Bernard Shaw
  204. George D. Parsons, Richard T. Pascale
  205. George Orwell
  206. George Santayana
  207. Gerald Zaltman
  208. Glen A. Barton
  209. Glover T. Ferguson
  210. Gordon Eubanks (original source?)
  211. Gordon MacKenzie
  212. Grant Miles
  213. Gregory V. Milano
  214. Harold Evans
  215. Harold J. Leavitt
  216. Harold Sherman and Al Pollard
  217. Harry S. Truman
  218. Henrik Ibsen
  219. Henri Nouwen
  220. Henry Blodget
  221. Henry Blodget
  222. Henry Blodget
  223. Henry Ford
  224. Henry Ford
  225. Henry Kissinger
  226. Henry Mintzberg
  227. Henry Mintzberg
  228. Henry Mintzberg
  229. Henry Mintzberg
  230. Henry Mintzberg
  231. Henry W. Chesbrough
  232. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  233. Herb Kelleher
  234. Herb Kelleher
  235. Herb Kelleher
  236. Herman Melville
  237. Hermann Simon
  238. Horace
  239. Howard Gardner
  240. Howard Gardner
  241. Howard Gardner
  242. Howard Gardner
  243. Howard Stevenson
  244. Howard Zinn (Philosopher)
  245. Hugh Davidson
  246. Ian Morrison (consultant and author)
  247. Igor Stravinsky
  248. Ikujiro Nonaka
  249. Isaac Newton
  250. Jack Lemmon
  251. Jack Welch
  252. Jack Welch
  253. Jagdish Sheth and Rajendra Sisodia
  254. James G. March
  255. James G. March
  256. James G. March
  257. James G. March
  258. James Keebler (author of Keeping Score)
  259. James Krohe Jr.
  260. James Krohe Jr.
  261. James M. Kouzes
  262. James Norris
  263. James O'Toole
  264. Jane Greenlaw
  265. Jay W Lorsch and Thomas J Tierney
  266. Jay W Lorsch and Thomas J Tierney
  267. Jay W Lorsch and Thomas J Tierney
  268. Jay W Lorsch and Thomas J Tierney
  269. Jean-Baptiste Molière
  270. Jeanie Duck
  271. Jean Jacques Rousseau
  272. Jeanne Liedtka
  273. Jeanne Liedtka
  274. Jeanne Liedtka, Henry Mintzberg
  275. Jeff Bezos
  276. Jeff Bezos
  277. Jeff Citron
  278. Jeff Heilman
  279. Jeffrey Pfeffer
  280. Jeffrey Pfeffer
  281. Jeffrey Pfeffer
  282. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
  283. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
  284. Jeffrey Rosen
  285. Jeff Thull
  286. Jeff Thull
  287. Jeff Thull
  288. Jeff Thull
  289. Jeff Thull
  290. Jennifer M. Kemeny and Joel Yanowitz
  291. Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser
  292. Jerry Wind / Vijay Mahajan / Robert Gunther
  293. Jerry Zaltman / Daniel H. Pink
  294. Jim Barksdale
  295. Jim Camp
  296. Jim Clemmer
  297. Jim Clemmer
  298. Jim Collins
  299. Jim Collins
  300. Jim Collins
  301. Jim Collins
  302. Jim Collins
  303. Jim Collins
  304. Jim Collins
  305. Jim Robbins
  306. Jim Rohn
  307. Jim Rohn
  308. Jim Stovall
  309. Jim Stovall
  310. Jim Stovall
  311. Jim Stovall
  312. Jim Stovall
  313. Joan L. Bragar
  314. Joe Firmage
  315. Joe Kraus
  316. Joel Kurtzman
  317. Joel Kurtzman / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  318. Joel M. Podolny, Rakesh Khurana, and Marya Hill-Popper
  319. Joe Pine
  320. Joe Pine
  321. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  322. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  323. Johan V Campbell
  324. John Adams
  325. John Battelle
  326. John Dewey
  327. John Dingell
  328. John E. Treat, George E. Thibault and Amy Asin
  329. John Ehrenfeld
  330. John Ehrenfeld
  331. John F Kennedy
  332. John Gardner
  333. John Hagel III
  334. John Harvey-Jones
  335. John Hood
  336. John Jainschigg
  337. John Kao
  338. John Kenneth Galbraith
  339. John Kenneth Galbraith
  340. John Kenneth Galbraith
  341. John Kotter
  342. John Locke
  343. John Lubbock
  344. John Maynard Keynes
  345. John McCain
  346. John McCain
  347. John Nirenberg
  348. John P. Kotter
  349. John R. Boyd, USAF
  350. John Rawls (American philosopher)
  351. John Roth
  352. John S. McCallum
  353. John Seely Brown
  354. John Seely Brown
  355. John Seely Brown
  356. John Seely Brown, John Hagel
  357. John Seely Brown and Estee Solomon
  358. John Stuart Mill
  359. John W. Lewis
  360. John W. Newbern
  361. John Wareham
  362. John Wareham
  363. John Wooden
  364. Jonathan Byrnes
  365. Jonathan Byrnes
  366. Jonathan Byrnes
  367. Jonathan Sacks
  368. Jonathan Zittrain
  369. Joseph Ellis
  370. Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.
  371. Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert
  372. Joseph Stiglitz
  373. Josh Kopelman
  374. Joshua Margolis
  375. Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners
  376. Judy Jernudd (??)
  377. Justin Menkes
  378. Justin Pettit
  379. Kahil Gibran
  380. Karen Stephenson
  381. Katherine Catlin
  382. Katya Andresen
  383. Keith H. Hammonds
  384. Keith H. Hammonds, Laura Nash
  385. Keith H. Hammonds / Doug Smith
  386. Keith Yamashita
  387. Ken Kesey (author)
  388. Ken Langdon
  389. Konosuke Matsushita
  390. Konosuke Matsushita
  391. Konosuke Matsushita
  392. Konosuke Matsushita
  393. Lance Armstrong
  394. Lao-tsu
  395. Laszlo Zsolnai
  396. Laszlo Zsolnai
  397. Lawrence Hrebiniak
  398. Lawrence Lessig
  399. Lee Thayer
  400. Lee Walker
  401. Leo Burnett
  402. Lester C. Thurow
  403. Lester C. Thurow
  404. Lester C. Thurow
  405. Lester Thurow
  406. Lester Thurow
  407. Lewis A. Sanders
  408. Liesl Capper
  409. Lorraine Monroe
  410. Lorrin L. Lee
  411. Lou Brock
  412. Lou Holtz
  413. Lou Holtz
  414. Louis Pasteur (19th-century French chemist)
  415. Luca Turin (subject of Chandler Burr's The Emperor
  416. Lyndon B. Johnson
  417. M. Henos
  418. Malcolm Gladwell
  419. Malcolm S. Forbes
  420. Manfred Kets de Vries
  421. Manfred Kets de Vries
  422. Marc Andreessen
  423. Marcus Aurelius
  424. Marcus Buckingham
  425. Marcus Buckingham
  426. Marcus Buckingham
  427. Marcus Buckingham and Curt W. Coffman
  428. Marcus Buckingham and Curt W. Coffman
  429. Marcus Buckingham and Curt W. Coffman
  430. Margaret Wheatley
  431. Margaret Wheatley
  432. Mark Goulston
  433. Mark Kingwell
  434. Mark Kingwell
  435. Mark Kingwell
  436. Mark Kingwell (stating old philosophical maxim)
  437. Mark Klein and Arthur Einstein
  438. Mark Scureman
  439. Marsha Johnson Evans
  440. Marshall Goldsmith
  441. Marshall Goldsmith, Kelly Goldsmith
  442. Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan
  443. Martha Barletta
  444. Marvin Bower
  445. Marvin Bower
  446. Marvin Bower
  447. Marvin Bower
  448. Marvin Bower
  449. Marvin Bower
  450. Mary Parker Follett
  451. Matthew Budman
  452. Matthew Stewart
  453. Max Boisot
  454. Max De Pree
  455. Max De Pree
  456. Michael A. Roberto, Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Amy C. Edmondson
  457. Michael E. Raynor
  458. Michael E. Raynor
  459. Michael E. Raynor
  460. Michael E. Raynor
  461. Michael Hammer
  462. Michael Iva
  463. Michael Keeley
  464. Michael Mainelli
  465. Michael Porter
  466. Michael Schrage
  467. Michael Schrage
  468. Michael Schrage
  469. Michael Schrage
  470. Michael Schrage
  471. Michael Schrage
  472. Michelangelo Buonarroti
  473. Michio Kaku
  474. Miguel Angel Ariño
  475. Milton Friedman
  476. Mohanbir Sawhney
  477. Mohanbir Sawhney
  478. Mohandas Gandhi
  479. Mohandas Gandhi
  480. Monique Maddy
  481. Morgen Witzel, Confucius
  482. Murray Weidenbaum
  483. N. Dean Meyer
  484. Napolean
  485. Napoleon Bonaparte
  486. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  487. Nathaniel Branden
  488. Navin V. Nagiah
  489. Niccoló Machiavelli
  490. Nicholas G. Carr
  491. Nicholas G. Carr
  492. Nicholas G. Carr
  493. Nicholas Negroponte
  494. Nigel Nicholson
  495. Nigel Nicholson
  496. Nigel Nicholson
  497. Nikos Mourkogiannis
  498. Nikos Mourkogiannis
  499. Nikos Mourkogiannis
  500. Nilofer Merchant
  501. Noel Tichy
  502. Old proverb
  503. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  504. Ortega y Gasset
  505. Oscar Wilde
  506. P. Petit
  507. P. Ranganath Nayak
  508. Paritosh Chakrabarti
  509. Patricia Bryans, Richard Smith
  510. Patrick Barwise
  511. Paul Craig Roberts
  512. Paul Graham
  513. Paul Graham
  514. Paul Graham
  515. Paul Graham
  516. Paul Graham
  517. Paul J. H. Schoemaker
  518. Paul Saffo
  519. Paul Wieand
  520. Paul Wieand
  521. Pearl S. Buck
  522. Peter Cappelli
  523. Peter Drucker
  524. Peter Drucker
  525. Peter Drucker
  526. Peter Drucker
  527. Peter Drucker
  528. Peter Drucker
  529. Peter Drucker
  530. Peter Drucker
  531. Peter Drucker
  532. Peter Drucker
  533. Peter Drucker
  534. Peter Drucker
  535. Peter Drucker
  536. Peter Drucker
  537. Peter Drucker
  538. Peter Drucker
  539. Peter Drucker
  540. Peter F. Drucker
  541. Peter F. Drucker
  542. Peter Koestenbaum
  543. Peter Koestenbaum
  544. Peter M. Senge
  545. Peter M. Senge
  546. Peter M. Senge
  547. Peter Senge
  548. Peter Skarzynski (summarizing the thoughts of Gary
  549. Philip Evans
  550. Philip Evans
  551. Philip Evans
  552. Philip Evans
  553. Philip Evans, Bob Wolf
  554. Philip Evans, Bob Wolf
  555. Philip Pullman
  556. Phillips Brooks
  557. Phyllis Rothschild, Jag Duggal, and Richard Balaban
  558. Pierre Wack (Royal Dutch/Shell forecaster and fath
  559. Pierre Yves (P Y) Gerbeau
  560. P Ranganath Nayak, David A. Garvin, Arun N. Maira, and Joan L. Bragar
  561. P Ranganath Nayak, David A. Garvin, Arun N. Maira, and Joan L. Bragar
  562. Price Pritchett (?)
  563. Professor Emil Homerin (University of Rochester)
  564. Professor W. Sorbeck (Chip Kidd)
  565. Publilius Syrus (First Century B.C.)
  566. Putt's Law
  567. R. Buckminster Fuller
  568. Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria, and Daniel Penrice
  569. Ralph Szygenda
  570. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  571. Randall Cheloha
  572. Ray Podder
  573. Ray Stata
  574. Regis McKenna
  575. Regis McKenna
  576. Renée Mauborgne
  577. Rene Descartes
  578. Rhonda Germany and Raman Muralidharan
  579. Ricardo Levy (chairman of Catalytica Energy System
  580. Richard A. Kleinert
  581. Richard Foster
  582. Richard M. Devos
  583. Richard Marcinko
  584. Richard N. Foster and Sarah Kaplan
  585. Richard N. Foster and Sarah Kaplan
  586. Richard Nelson Bolles
  587. Richard Rumelt
  588. Richard Rumelt
  589. Richard Rumelt
  590. Richard Saul Wurman
  591. Richard Saul Wurman
  592. Richard Saul Wurman
  593. Richard Z. Gooding, Ph.D.
  594. Robert A. Caro
  595. Robert A. Caro
  596. Robert Filek
  597. Robert Kelley
  598. Robert Kennedy
  599. Robert K Greenleaf
  600. Robert Knowling
  601. Robert Knowling
  602. Robert L. Sutton
  603. Robert M. Tomasko
  604. Robert McKee, Bronwyn Fryer
  605. Robert Nardelli
  606. Roberto Goizueta
  607. Robert Pirsig
  608. Robert S. Kaplan
  609. Robin Athey
  610. Robin Athey
  611. Rob Waite
  612. Roger Enrico
  613. Roger Martin
  614. Ron Adner
  615. Ronald A. Heifetz and Donald L. Laurie
  616. Ronald Burt
  617. Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky
  618. Ronald Reagan
  619. Ronald S. Jonash, Philip D. Metz, and Bruce McK. Thompson
  620. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  621. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  622. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  623. Ross Mayfield
  624. Roy Williams
  625. Rudyard Kipling
  626. Rudyard L. Istvan
  627. Rudy Ruggles
  628. Rushworth Kidder
  629. Russell Ackoff
  630. Russell L. Ackoff
  631. Russell L. Ackoff
  632. Russell Muirhead
  633. Russell Muirhead
  634. Ruth Stevens
  635. Saint Augustine
  636. Samuel Johnson
  637. Samuel Johnson
  638. Samuel Johnson
  639. Samuel Tilden
  640. Sam Walton
  641. Scott Adams
  642. Scott Anthony, Clayton Christensen
  643. Scott Bedbury
  644. Scott D. Anthony, Matt Eyring, and Lib Gibson
  645. Seneca
  646. Seneca
  647. Sergio Zyman
  648. Seth Godin
  649. Shapiro, Slywotzky and Tedlow
  650. Shibumi Bubba
  651. Simon Walker
  652. Simon Zadek, CEO of AccountAbility
  653. Sir Terry Leahy
  654. Solzhenitsyn
  655. Soren Kierkegaard
  656. Stefan Thomke
  657. Stephen Covey
  658. Stephen M. Shapiro
  659. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
  660. Steve Hardy
  661. Steve Jobs
  662. Steven B. Potter (CEO, Executive Search Division, TMP Worldwide)
  663. Steven B. Sample
  664. Sumantra Ghoshal
  665. Sun Tzu
  666. Sun Tzu
  667. Susan Cramm
  668. Suzan St Maur
  669. T.E. Copeland
  670. Tamara J. Erickson and C. Everett Shorey
  671. Teresa Amabile
  672. The Economist
  673. The Gallup Organization
  674. Theodore Levitt
  675. Theodore Levitt
  676. Theodore Levitt
  677. Theodore Levitt
  678. Theodore Levitt
  679. Theodore Levitt
  680. Theodore Levitt
  681. Thomas Davenport
  682. Thomas Edison
  683. Thomas H. Davenport
  684. Thomas H. Davenport, John C. Beck
  685. Thomas J. Watson Jr.
  686. Thomas Jefferson
  687. Thomas Jefferson
  688. Thomas L. Friedman
  689. Thomas Mannarelli
  690. Thomas Stewart
  691. Thomas V. Morris (author of The Art of Achievement
  692. Tima Bansal
  693. Tima Bansal
  694. Tima Bansal
  695. Timothy C. Daughtry Ph.D. & Gary R. Casselman Ph.D
  696. Timothy Haas
  697. Timothy J. Rohner
  698. Tom Golisano
  699. Tom Heuerman, Ph.D., Ed McGaa
  700. Tom Love and Haig Nalbantian
  701. Tom Peters
  702. Tom Peters
  703. Tony Mayo
  704. Tony Siesfeld and John-Paul Pape
  705. Unknown
  706. Unknown
  707. Unknown
  708. Unknown
  709. Unknown
  710. Unknown
  711. Unknown
  712. Unknown
  713. Unknown
  714. Unknown
  715. Unknown
  716. Unknown
  717. Unknown
  718. Unknown
  719. Unknown / Bob Weir
  720. Vernon Tirey, CEO of Dialogos, Inc.
  721. Vijay Vishwanath, Dorie Krawiec
  722. Viktor Frankl
  723. Vinton Cerf
  724. Voltaire
  725. W. Douglas, US Supreme Court
  726. W. Somerset Maugham
  727. Warren Bennis
  728. Warren Buffett
  729. Warren Farrell
  730. Werner von Braun
  731. Wilford O. Cross (author, Prologue to Ethics)
  732. William Gibson
  733. William H. Rastetter
  734. William James
  735. William James
  736. William Penn
  737. William Penn
  738. Winston Churchill
  739. Winston Churchill
  740. Yves Morieux
  741. Yves Morieux
  742. Yves Morieux, Robert Howard
  743. Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman
  744. Zig Ziglar
  745. Zig Ziglar
  746. ZingTrain

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