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I recently spent some time with the Amazon Kindle side-by-side with the Sony Reader. Having never used any type of virtual book device before, it took me a bit to adjust to both (both have slightly awkward hardware characteristics), but once I settled in, some big things became apparent. Kindle is very connected to a large world beyond the text you're reading on the screen.
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Hidden inside Fortune's 2008 Investor's Guide is a one page article titled "The Three Minute Manager: Lessons In Leadership. " They interview Bill George (True North), Noel Tichy (Judgment) and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (Firing Back) and each was asked questions around the problem:
"What do you do if you discover a huge loss at your company? "
There is no link on the Fortune's site to the piece, so I can only give you the choicest words from each authority:
Sonnenfeld on your first move: "First you want to figure out the entirety of the problem so you don't lose credibility coming out with more and more bad news.
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The Tide of Fortune>>The Wall Street Journal | Commodore
Along the way, this uneducated, gutsy and often callous man laid the foundations for what Mr. Renehan describes as "the greatest private fortune the world has ever known.
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Robert Bloom has marketed the launch of some very great and successful companies--Southwest Airlines, Nestle, T-Mobile and Novartis just to name a few. He has worked with numerous others along the way, including BMW and L'Oreal. In each instance he applied a winning formula for growth based on the assertion that every company has an Inside Advantage.
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Gotta love this time of year. Lots of lists. As is true in business book publishing.
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