“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” – Charlie “T” Jones
The End of Competitive Advantage
Photo: Tom Hood & Rita McGrath at BLI Thought Leader Symposium in Baltimore, MD
“How would you think differently about your strategy if you knew your advantage might not last?”
Tom Hood and Rita McGRath at BLI Thought Leader series in Maryland
Flash Foresight The faster things change, the farther and wider we have to see. Dan Burrus offers some great strategies to see these trends and idenFfy the hard trends most likely to impact you versus the soH trends. A must for anybody trying to anFcipate the future beJer.
The Second Machine Age The biggest challenge we face is to comprehend exponenFal growth. Two MIT computer scienFsts offer insights into just how fast technology is advancing things and how we should be thinking about it. If you want stay relevant, this book will help you as organizaFons and individuals.
Leaders Eat Last “There are leaders and there are those that lead.” Sinek does it again! This Fme he tackles leadership and how to build trust in our organizaFons.
We are quickly finding out that when we go from a centralized communica8ons infrastructure to a distributed one, when we connect everything and everyone, the result is not just to make things faster, be>er, and bigger. The social system itself acquires a fundamentally different quality: it becomes more diversified, more emergent, and oCen unpredictable.
The Nature of the Future
Marina Gorbis, ExecuFve Director of the InsFtute for the Future provides some great insights into the emerging social structured world.
A Business & Its Beliefs This is a classic but helps explain the endurance of a company over Fme when it gets it’s “why” right. An easy read full of examples of how IBM became one of the most successful technology companies ever.
Look, Lead, Love & Learn Bill Sheridan has interviewed some of the top thought leaders in business today and this quick read is like having the cliff notes plus the added perspecFve of Bill Sheridan. I think of it as dispatches from the future of business.
Bill Sheridan, CAE The Business Learning Ins6tute
The Look, Lead, Love, Learn Book Club "Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back," by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy "Flip! How to Turn Everything You Know On Its Head and Succeed Beyond Your Wildest Dreams," by Peter Sheahan "LeadershiL: Reinven6ng Leadership for the Age of Mass Collabora6on," by Emmanuel Gobillot "Follow the Leader: The One Thing Great Leaders Have that Great Followers Want," by Emmanuel Gobillot "Linchpin," by Seth Godin
Bill Sheridan, CAE The Business Learning Ins6tute
The Look, Lead, Love, Learn Book Club "The Likeability Factor," by Tim Sanders "Today We Are Rich," by Tim Sanders "Love is the Killer App," by Tim Sanders "Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past," by Geoffrey Moore "I Love You More Than My Dog," by Jeanne Bliss "Give and Take," by Adam Grant
Bill Sheridan, CAE The Business Learning Ins6tute
The Look, Lead, Love, Learn Book Club "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Won't Stop Talking," by Susan Cain "Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible," by Daniel Burrus "The Silent Language of Leaders," by Carol Kinsey Goman "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and in Business," by Charles Duhigg "Posi6vity: Groundbreaking Research," by Barbara Fredrickson
Bill Sheridan, CAE The Business Learning Ins6tute
The Look, Lead, Love, Learn Book Club
"The Pla6num Rule: Discover the Four Basic Business Personali6es and How They Can Lead You to Success," Tony Alessandra and Michael J. O'Connor “Drive,” by Daniel Pink “Start With Why,” by Simon Sinek “Innova6ve Intelligence,” by David Weiss and Claude Legrand “Regenera6on: A Manifesto for America’s Next Leaders,” by Rebecca Ryan
Bill Sheridan, CAE The Business Learning Ins6tute
The Look, Lead, Love, Learn Book Club
“Trust Your Vibes: Secret Tools for Six-‐Sensory Living,” by Sonia ChoqueJe “Trust Your Vibes at Work and Let Them Work For You,” by Sonia ChoqueJe “The Seven Habits of Highly Effec6ve People,” by Stephen Covey “Life’s Golden Ticket: An Inspira6onal Novel,” by Brendon Burchard “Lean In,” by Sheryl Sandberg