Theodore Kinni

Revising the Managerial Playbook. See also Top Shelf Picks: Best Business Books 2018.

Waiting to make a choice can lead to more effective outcomes.

Professors Vijay Govindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti offer U.S. healthcare providers a prescription for reverse innovation from India.

Nuanced findings in network science suggest that the conventional wisdom about diffusing new ideas may hinder, not help, their spread.

In their new book, a trio of Rotman School professors demystify artificial intelligence for business leaders.

There are lots of whimsical ways to stay grounded, but simply walking around the workplace is still the best.

Sowing seeds of confusion and discord is no way to run an organization.

In his exuberant new book, the management guru sums up 50 years of experience with exhortations to pursue excellence.

It’s not your job to cure procrastinators. Your job is to get them to do their jobs.

The more complex and tightly coupled the system, say authors Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik, the more urgent the need to manage the risk of meltdowns.

In his new book, Andrew Santella explores procrastination, and why it is that whenever there is a job to do, you can count on someone putting it off. See also “Summer Reading: 8 Business Books – in Pictures”

History professor Jerry Muller reminds us that not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. See also “Summer Reading: 8 Business Books – in Pictures”

Management guru Jeffrey Pfeffer argues that modern management practices are making employees sick.

Fealty is something leaders have to earn.

We want our leaders to be decisive, proactive, and undaunted — but only to a point.

Best-selling author Daniel Pink analyzes more than 700 studies to reveal the science of perfect timing. See also “Summer Reading: 8 Business Books – in Pictures”

Be honest, play fair, and do what you say you are going to do.

In her new book, Harvard Business School Professor Tsedal Neeley examines the challenge of establishing a lingua franca in global companies.

Freek Vermeulen of the London Business School offers contrarian nuggets for innovation-hungry leaders. See also “Summer Reading: 8 Business Books – in Pictures”

Chip and Dan Heath explain how to add defining moments to your customer experience.

INSEAD professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne deliver the navigation chart needed to reach blue oceans.

In Lead Yourself First, Raymond Kethledge and Michael Erwin explore how solitude nurtures clarity, creativity, emotional balance, and moral courage.

In his new book, Face Value, Princeton psychologist Alexander Todorov explores our predilection for judging other people by their faces.

Wharton professor David Robertson defines a “Third Way” of creating new products and services.

Chess champion Garry Kasparov replays his historic loss to Deep Blue to illuminate the potential of AI.

In his new book, Mistreated, former Permanente Medical Group CEO Robert Pearl diagnoses the woes afflicting one of the country’s largest industries.

Public policy professor Philip Auerswald takes on “the Great Man–Machine Debate.”

Author Kim Scott argues that managers who care personally and challenge their team directly can improve results.

The author of Hooked recommends four books for the leaders of consumer companies seeking to create habit-forming products and services.

Ira M. Millstein, a leading light in corporate governance for decades, makes his case…again.