Would you like the Mona Lisa if others didn’t? Would you still think Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony was good? Would you still think the songs of the Beatles were superior to those of, say, Justin Bieber?
In a report last …
So you want a sofa, a three-seater, in green velvet, with no back but two tall armrests. Oh, and you want the armrests to be in the shape of Mimsy, your wheaten terrier. Such customization generally requires small-scale …
Alas, McDonald’s has been out-bunned.
Are you economically free?
What are we to make of the following statistic? According to a survey of 344 U.S. workers conducted by the consulting firm BlessingWhite, the idea that someone’s immediate manager in a company “is the main reason people …
For retailers hoping a surge in holiday sales will make the year-end numbers look attractive, there’s a catch—especially for those who specialize in e-commerce.
Isolation is a problem faced by every leader, and the larger the organization, the greater the isolation. In an interview with McKinsey & Co., Richard Bracken, chairman and chief executive of Hospital Corp. of America, addresses …
Sony was long one of the world’s nimblest companies.
As Peter Drucker recounted in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, when Bell Labs came up with the transistor, Akio Morita, the young president of Sony, read about it in a …
To put it bluntly, Val DiFebo, chief executive of advertising agency Deutsch NY, likes to be direct.
“When you’ve got something on your mind, tell it to me straight,” she explained to Adam Bryant of the New York Times. …
It seems we’re delaying everything nowadays—including work.
According to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, the “lockstep march from school to work and then on to …
