CEOs - does talent tell?
I just discovered the Economist blog (thanks to David Farrar). In an post which muses on the talent (or lack of it) in CEOs and whether or not it makes a difference, I came upon this gem on business books :
Nothing is so stupid that it cannot be made into a framework for analysing your business; when I tried to freelance a parody piece on business book titles, I was stymied by the fact that the most outlandish ideas I could come up with—”Management secrets of the Carmelite Nuns”—had already actually been made into books by some optimistic editor. The only idea which had not already made it into print in some very similar form was “How to make a killing in business: Strategic secrets of America’s greatest serial killers”. No doubt it is forthcoming from Harcourt Brace this year.
The rest of the post Does talent tell? is worth reading, too.
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May 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am
This got me thinking about some Kiwi variants
- The Jerry Collins guide to ambush marketing
- Building a global brand on a limited budget, by Nicole Beggs (Hang on, she’s just done that)
May 5th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
You know Strategic secrets of America’s greatest serial killers would probably be a best seller!
Other Kiwi variants might be:
How to build a business on belief by Brian Tamaki
Climbing to the Top in Business by Ed Hillary
The importance of working in unison by the Ever-Swindells
May 6th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Maybe we should run a competition. Best suggestion by Friday evening wins. See next post.