What's Happening Now with My Leading Clients . . .
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A Bright New Book about Apple's Visionary Artist (and Brutal Leader)
A Fresh Perspective on Leadership:
Anil Inamdar has written a book attempting to demystify Steve Jobs’ distinctive and inimitable management style. He was a combination of several collaborative, competitive, and conflicting management styles. He was part exceptional manager, part visionary artist, part reckless cowboy, and part brutal tyrant. The book analyzes Jobs' critical decisions through an exclusive Avatar Framework and its four discrete vantage points. After poring over 45 critical decisions and their impact on Apple’s success, Inamdar highlights several useful patterns that can be profitably used by other leaders and organizations. |
Happy Client
Spirituality & Health magazine (a bimonthly)
and its extensive website. Its mission: "We cover a broad range of topics under the umbrella of health and spirituality, which can include faith, Eastern philosophy, meditation, and mainstream religion; nutrition, wellness, yoga, and holistic medicine; creativity, the inner life, social justice, and issues of conscience; and public health, the human body, and the environment." "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love." - MOTHER TERESA |
Long-Term Client in Silicon ValleyUSED BY 2 MILLION+ entrepreneurs to start and grow their business! (see graphic at right) Recommended by INC. and FORBES magazines For the sixth year, I have helped PlanningShop, a longtime client in Palo Alto, CA, update this acclaimed book for entrepreneurs and business owners, by founder Rhonda Abrams. And I edited several of its other business books. A business columnist for USA Today, Abrams has developed numerous books and online resources to help enterprising people launch or build their businesses. |
The fifth edition won the Benjamin Franklin Award
of the Independent Book Publishers Association for "best business book." This is the best-selling business plan guide in the U.S. |
Sampling of Books (click on a cover to go to a related site)
ANOTHER IMPORTANT BOOK:
Reconstructing Your Worldview: The Four Core Beliefs You Need to Solve Complex Business Problems, by Bartley J. Madden Madden served as managing director of Credit Suisse/HOLT after a long career in money management and investment research. His current research focuses on knowledge-building and wealth creation as opposite sides of the same coin, and also on the application of the ideas in this book to public policy. From the Introduction: “The first core belief is that past experiences shape our current assumptions.… The second core belief is that language is perception’s silent partner—silent in the sense that we are mostly unaware of the powerful influence of language. A creative use of language can generate new opportunities for a future unshackled from the past.… The third core belief is concerned with systems thinking: how to improve system performance by identifying and fixing a system’s key constraints.… The fourth core belief is that human behavior is purposeful, and that it can be productively analyzed as a living control system.” |
Longtime Client (click on link to go to client site)
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California Berkeley’s renowned public science center, has been my client for 11 years. It serves 5,000 educators around the country and the world, 250,000 people in Northern California, and more than 7.5 million youth globally. Its curricula are used in all 50 states. It conducts camps and workshops for kids to explore STEM topics (science, technology, engineering, and math). It mounts exhibits like "Design Quest" at the Hall high in the Berkeley hills, and it offers events such as eclipse-watching and fix-it clinics plus 3-D science Planetarium movies and live critter-interaction at its Animal Discovery Center. (During the pandemic, it conducted many classes and camps online, with materials mailed to students and their parents.)
Several International Corporate Clients (click on link to go to client sites)
ProsiebenSat.1 Media (Germany): I coedited the English edition (370 pages) of an annual report of Germany's largest telecom corporation (revenues: EURO 3.26 billion), with extensive charts and graphs, corporate initiatives, and acquisitions.
Encourage Capital (New York City): I edited the investment firm’s major proposal to “affect investing toward sustainable global fisheries” in Chile, Peru, the Philippines, and Brazil. The preliminary massive report with supporting data and references, titled “A Vibrant Ocean Initiative,” is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (Israel): I edited its Corporate Social Responsibility Report. TEVA describes itself thus: "A global leader in generic pharmaceuticals • US generics market leader, with approximately 20% market share • 850 molecules - the broadest generic portfolio in the industry • 73 billion tablets and capsules, and over 720 million sterile units manufactured in 2012 • 73 pharmaceutical and API production facilities around the world • Over 1.5 million Teva prescriptions are written each day in the US • 1 out of every 6 generic prescriptions in the U.S. is filled with Teva products."