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Toyota acceleration incident report cites company’s “skepticism and...
From The Mistake Bank: The Toyota “North American Quality Advisory Panel,” put together in the wake of the sudden-acceleration incidents in 2009-2010, has released its report, and it’s fascinating...
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Finally, a business thinkers list with female representation
Three and a half years ago, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal that discussed a “new breed of business guru” and included a ranking, compiled by the Journal, of the top 20 business thinkers....
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Best Books of the Year 2011
It has been a spectacular year for books about mistakes and learning from them. Here’s the list of must-haves: 1. Brilliant Mistakes, Paul Schoemaker. Five years after publishing a terrific HBR article...
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Best Songs of the Year 2011
1. White Denim, “Drug.” It could’ve been any song from their new release, “D.” But the video for this one seals it. Papier mache forever! 2. Adele, “Rolling in the Deep.” It doesn’t matter that you’ve...
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5-minute journaling really helps at year-end review time
This week I am working on my employee self-evaluation. Remember those? They… well, they suck. You have to try to piece together every significant achievement of the last 12 months. Last year for me,...
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Podcast: “The Wide Lens” author Ron Adner shares stories of innovation mistakes
I had the opportunity to interview Ron Adner, professor at the Tuck School of Business and author of “The Wide Lens: A New Strategy of Innovation.” The book details the challenges with innovating when...
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Ron Adner mini-podcast: Why smart companies make avoidable innovation mistakes
After our recent interview with Ron Adner, author of “The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation,” we got to chatting, and in that exchange we talked about the reasons smart companies can fall into...
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An even-briefer definition of strategy
From a working paper by Eric J. Van den Steen of Harvard Business School (”A Theory of Explicitly Formulated Strategy“), via Harvard Business School Working Knowledge: I define a strategy as the...
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A sneak peek of Chapter 1 of the Mistake Bank book
I’ve attached a pdf document that represents Chapter 1 as it will be laid out. Note that the illustrations are not yet the final scans, but this gives you a sense of what the whole book will look like....
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