800-CEO-READ Blog

links for 2007-04-19

• Where Have All the Leaders Gone? >> BusinessWeek | A Blast From Iacocca
  The book often comes off as a rant by someone who remembers an America that was so much better during his salad days. Still, it does contain sound advice on the qualities of good leaders and provides real examples, past and present, of effective leadershi
  (tags: businessbooks)
• Competing On Analytics >> Wall Street Journal | The Importance of Crunching the Numbers
  You need the right data, the people to analyze it properly, a keen understanding of what you are trying to do with the findings and, not least, managers who have the guts to stick to decisions based on the results.
  (tags: businessbooks strategy)
• Competing on Analytics >> Financial Times | Are modern analytics ‘rewriting the rules of competition’?
  “We define,� they write, “an analytical competitor as an organisation that uses analytics extensively and systematically to out-think and out-execute the competition.�
  (tags: businessbooks strategy)
• Off-ramps and On-ramps >> Wall Street Journal | A Different Track
  A Q&A with author Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founder and president of the Center for Work-Life Policy
  (tags: businessbooks careers)