Was Gladwell Wrong?
August 25, 2014 by
Reading Time: < 1 minute Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers” posits that Bill Gates, the Beatles and other very successful persons attained that status by adhering to the “10,000 Hour Rule” of committing at least that much time to honing their skills. This brief but important article from the Smithsonian takes issue with Gladwell’s claim and holds that
Pick One: Change or Improvement?
August 24, 2014 by
Reading Time: < 1 minute Most C-level executives find themselves besieged by those with a vested interest in changing things. Often consultants, new hires, academics and others often seem to be proposing change for change’s sake before looking at the reason why existing processes, institutions, traditions and protocols came to be in the first place.
