When Will We Ever Learn? A Postscript
Last November Jeffery Pfeffer was in Sydney at the invitation of Australian Institute of Management presenting on his current topic, Evidence Based Management for Business based on his latest book Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management jointly written with Robert Sutton. I attended the seminar and finally finished reading the book last week. The book was better than the seminar although it was great to see Professor Pfeffer in action and g.....
Read MoreLessons from Lear Part 2
In my previous post, Lessons from Lear, I received the comment from Mhlosh that one should not take lessons from Lear, making the comment Lear tried to measure the quality and quantity of his daughters' love for him. Love doesn't work like that. Bad things ensued. Of course at the first level King Lear is a Shakespearean tragedy that illustrates what happens when children are consumed by greed and lose their love for their parents. On the other hand, Charles Handy considered Lear one of the b.....
Read MoreLessons from Lear (Part I)
Last week we went to see Australia's foremost Shakespearean actor, John Bell, perform King Lear for the third time. One of the great plays of English literature, King Lear has been open to many interpretations, the Freudians in particular having a field day about the causes of Lear's madness and his coming to his senses. However it is comments in the program by Bell about Lear that make for compelling reading. To Bell, the play is not about madness but the pitfalls of power. He sees Lear as a m.....
Read MorePotential Manager Flaws
I recently finished reading Why Smart Executives Fail by Sydney Finkelstein. While some observers try to argue that companies fail because the lack of intelligence of their senior executives, Finkelstein argues that it is flaws in the personality that cause failure. Mimicking Steven Covey, Finkelstein lists the seven habits of spectacularly unsuccessful people: They see themselves and their companies as dominating their environments. The CEO believes he is personally pre-eminent. They see.....
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