Screwed by Amazon.com?
Ever since Amazon.com began I have been an ardent supporter as a customer. Fast, efficient, limitless titles, easy shopping experience. I purchase all my books through Amazon, and even some non-book...
View ArticleJust Published! FASTBREAK: The CEO’s Guide to Strategy Execution
“Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else...
View ArticleStrategy+Culture: A New LinkedIn Group
About two months or so ago I started a LinkedIn Group, Strategy+Culture. This is a fully managed group, with an independent manager to facilitate discussions and help keep the topics on track....
View ArticleFASTBREAK now a Kindle eBook
Announcement: My recent business book: FASTBREAK: The CEO’s Guide to Strategy Execution, is now a Kindle eBook and can be easily downloaded to the iPad or PC (with free Kindle app) or to your Kindle...
View ArticleAnother Business Lesson from Mother Nature . . .
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. ~Charles Darwin In 1975 I left behind my Ph.D. degree...
View ArticleMy Thriller Novels Now in Paperback
Perfect for Holiday Reading Historical and Political Thriller Novels by John Childress Now Out in Paperback After over a year in e-book format, all four of John Childress’s thriller novels are now...
View ArticleNew Business Book Now Available Now in Paperback
LEVERAGE: THE CEO’S GUIDE TO CORPORATE CULTURE JUST PUBLISHED IN PAPERBACK ON AMAZON Few concepts in business contain so many powerful truths, and at the same time so much crap, as corporate culture....
View ArticleLEVERAGE Infographic: A New Look at a New Book
Filed under: consulting, corporate culture, John R Childress, leadership, Organization Behavior, strategy execution, the business of business Tagged: Amazon.com, business books, culture assessments,...
View ArticleWrong! 8 Common Assumptions about Culture Change
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ~Henry Ford One of my greatest insights about culture change came early in my career from an assignment with AVCO...
View ArticleCulture By Design, Culture By the Numbers
In my executive speeches and my recent book, LEVERAGE: The CEO’s Guide to Corporate Culture, I use the case study of Zappos.com, the internet shoe and clothing retailer to illustrate the power of...
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