She Created Netflix’s Culture And It Ultimately Got Her Fired – Via Fast Company

http://www.fastcompany.com/3056662/the-future-of-work/she-created-netflixs-culture-and-it-ultimately-got-her-fired

Perfect Sentiment:  Remember, “companies don’t exist to make you happy. You know that, right? The business doesn’t exist to serve you. The business exists to serve your customers,” reminds McCord

Succeeding with Three Challenges that Derail Leaders

Source: Succeeding with Three Challenges that Derail Leaders

Selling Books in the Digital Age—We ALL Have an Image Problem & Here’s What To Do

Source: Selling Books in the Digital Age—We ALL Have an Image Problem & Here’s What To Do

How do you align strategy and execution?

Source: How do you align strategy and execution?

The Question to Answer in 2016

Source: The Question to Answer in 2016

Go Ahead and Outwork Them

Source: Go Ahead and Outwork Them

Sudden Breakthroughs in Subtle Blind Spots

Successful leaders have the wonderful capacity to tragically misjudge themselves. We snicker or cringe at people who believe they’re great singers, when they can’t carry a tune. But, what if you’re that person? Truth be told, you have blind spots. The most common blind spot is believing others have them, but you don’t. Blind spots […]

https://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/sudden-breakthroughs-in-subtle-blind-spots/

How Curiosity, Luck, and the Flip of a Switch Saved the Moon Program via Motherboard magazine

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/john-aaron-apollo-12-curiosity-luck-and-sce-to-aux

Less known story about how Apollo 12 got hit by lightning twice during launch and how training, simulations, skills and a bit of luck saved the day

Rethinkers Are Stinkers

One member of my team called my ability to rethink decisions frustrating. It drove him nuts. I thought it was the pursuit of excellence. Now I know it’s dangerous. Rethinkers lead sluggish organizations. When leaders are great at rethinking, decisions aren’t final. 4 dangers of rethinking: Foot dragging when decisions are unpopular. Just wait. Things […]

https://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/rethinkers-are-stinkers/

Video: The Millennial mirage Gen Y is not as advertised, says an Economist panel

http://www.economistgroup.com/leanback/consumers/video-the-millennial-mirage-sonos-pandora-moet-hennessy-ibm/#

 

Nice article and video from Economist Group about marketing to Millennials. Nice panelist discussion from Joy Howard, CMO of Sonos; Alan Schanzer, SVP, agency and advertiser development of Pandora; Jon Potter, CMO of Moet Hennessy USA and Carolyn Baird, global research leader of IBM Global Business Services.