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I pulled up my copy of Josh Levine’s new book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love on a Monday morning, and it made my day a great Monday. Josh speaks with an authoritative voice honed by years of serious work with culture leaders. He weaves together resonant strands of thought leadership…
Richard L. Daft, Ph.D. is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. His comprehensive textbook (Cengage Learning, 2016) embraces new concepts in organizational development, including self-management and practices from Morning Star. Appreciation to him for the cutting edge theory, and the citations to my…
Appreciation to author Terry White for his 2020 Routledge book embracing self-managed teams. Appreciate his quoting my take on empowerment: “Empowerment is where one person with power is lending some of their power to a subordinate with less power. And what is loaned, can be repossessed. Self-management is beyond empowerment… it is power itself.”
Professor Ravier pays homage to Morning Star’s self-management approach and quotes my book Beyond Empowerment: The Age of the Self-Managed Organization. The perfect resource on organizational self-management for Spanish-speaking-and-reading leaders worldwide. Link to order here: https://amzn.to/3AmBVe9
Love, Janis is a luminous, poignant portrait of the late singer that could only have been painted by someone personally close and yet sufficiently removed from the hot flame of Janis’ incredible career to render an affectionate, discerning picture. The artist of this portrait, Janis’ younger sister Laura, marshals the details of their shared upbringing…
