Resources to transform your business
I recently published my latest book, Biz 4.0: An anthropological blueprint for business in the digital age. Here is a list of resources, comprising books and online articles I have used directly and indirectly in the book. Along with my book they will help you transform your business.
The List
Books
McCormack, A. 2017. Attention Dynamics: High personal performance in the digital age. Auridian Press.
McCormack, A. 2015. Beyond Nine to Five: Your career guide for the digital age. Auridian Press.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. 2013. Flow: The psychology of happiness. Ebury Digital.
Levitt, S. 2007. Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. Penguin.
Ries, E. 2011. The Lean Startup: How constant innovation creates radically successful businesses. Portfolio Penguin.
Blawatt, K. 2016. Narconomics: How to run a drug cartel. Emerald Group Publishing.
Ericsson, A. and Pool, R. 2016. Peak: How all of us can achieve extraordinary things. Vintage Digital.
Tzu, S. 2010. The Art of War. Capstone.
Gratton, L. and Scott, A. 2016. The Hundred Year Life: Living and working in an age of longevity. Bloomsbury Information.
Peppers, D. 1998. The One to One Future: Building relationships one customer at a time. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group.
Maister, D. and Green, C. 2002. The Trusted Advisor. Simon and Schuster.
Junger, S. 2016. Tribe: On homecoming and belonging. Fourth Estate.
Thiel, P. and Masters, B. 2014. Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or how to build the future. Virgin Digital.
Online
10 most innovative organisations:
https://www.industryweek.com/innovation/10-most-innovative-companies-world
Adaptability:
https://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_2.htm
Adaptability: The new competitive advantage:
https://www.themanager.org/2015/01/adaptability-new-competitive-advantage/
Artistry and skills:
https://www.survivalinternational.org/galleries/ingenious
Analytics 3.0:
https://hbr.org/2013/12/analytics-30
Apple – A simple product line:
https://www.edibleapple.com/2009/02/03/why-a-simple-product-line-is-integral-to-apples-success/
Augmented humanity:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2016/12/01/idc-2017-predictions-birth-of-augmented-humanity/
Automation and the future of work:
https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/automation-jobs-and-the-future-of-work
Automation of knowledge jobs:
https://hbr.org/2016/06/the-knowledge-jobs-most-likely-to-be-automated
Best places to work:
https://fortune.com/best-companies/
Better decisions:
Big data:
https://hbr.org/2012/10/big-data-the-management-revolution
Big data: A retail gamechanger:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2015/11/10/big-data-a-game-changer-in-the-retail-sector/
Branding:
CEO tenure:
https://fortune.com/2015/05/06/ceo-tenure-cisco/
Change v transformation:
Changing nature of work:
https://hbr.org/2013/12/the-peer-economy-will-transform-work-or-at-least-how-we-think-of-it
Co-bots:
https://www.ft.com/content/6d5d609e-02e2-11e6-af1d-c47326021344
Cognitive fitness:
https://hbr.org/2007/11/cognitive-fitness
Cognitive reserve:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/what-is-cognitive-reserve-and-how-do-we-increase-it/
Collective ambition:
https://hbr.org/2011/12/the-power-of-collective-ambition
Data capital:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601081/the-rise-of-data-capital/
Data driven business:
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/big-data/building-a-data-driven-business.html
Death of a car salesman:
Decentralised leadership:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starfish_and_the_Spider
Digital competition:
Digital defined:
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/high-tech/our-insights/what-digital-really-means
Digital globalisation
https://hbr.org/2016/03/globalization-is-becoming-more-about-data-and-less-about-stuff
Digital leadership:
Digital strategy:
Emerging markets middle class
https://www.ey.com/gl/en/issues/driving-growth/middle-class-growth-in-emerging-markets
Energy and natural resources:
https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/natural-resources
Globalisation:
https://hbr.org/topic/globalization
Happiness and the hunter gatherer:
https://www.quora.com/Were-people-in-hunter-gatherer-societies-generally-happier-than-modern-people
Human organisation:
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/03309
Hunter gatherer economics:
https://www.quora.com/Which-economic-system-did-the-hunter-gatherer-societies-use
Hunter gatherer life:
https://www.h2g2.com/approved_entry/A2054675
Hunter gatherer to digital native:
https://information-revolutions.com/chapter01/
Incomplete leadership:
https://hbr.org/2007/02/in-praise-of-the-incomplete-leader
Intellectual capital:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/02/13/companies-failing-see-value-intellectual-property/
Internet of Things:
Leadership guts:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8017237-head-heart-and-guts
Leaderless organisations:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/drewhansen/2016/03/08/leaderless-management/
Managing talent in the digital age:
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/high-tech/our-insights/managing-talent-in-a-digital-age
Marginal gains:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/19174302
Motivation:
https://hbr.org/topic/motivating-people
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation
Netflix: Reinventing HR:
https://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr
Oxford study on people entering workplace 50% robots
Product development:
https://tomtunguz.com/mckinseys-3-horizons/
Robots and marriage:
https://fortune.com/2016/12/26/human-robot-love-marriage-relationships/
Robots in the boardroom:
Sales transformation:
https://www.bcg.com/expertise/capabilities/marketing-sales/sales-channel-transformation.aspx
Satisfying work:
https://uk.businessinsider.com/malcolm-gladwell-on-great-jobs-satisfying-work-2014-11
Sense of purpose:
Servant leader:
https://hbr.org/2015/09/new-managers-need-a-philosophy-about-how-theyll-lead
Skills:
https://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/3380-tribal-conservation
Smart cities:
https://www.information-age.com/intelligent-streetlamps-and-intelligent-city-gartner-123458507/
Smart connected products:
https://hbr.org/2014/11/how-smart-connected-products-are-transforming-competition
Talent and leadership:
Talent management:
https://futurestatetalent.com/ceos-prepare-for-talent-churn-in-the-digital-age/
Tesla strategy:
https://hbr.org/2015/05/teslas-new-strategy-is-over-100-years-old
The centre for collective intelligence:
The need for dreamers:
https://tompeters.com/pdfs/Tomato101804.pdf
Tom Peters – reimagine:
https://tompeters.com/pdfs/Tomato101804.pdf
Value creation:
https://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2013/03/26/why-disruptive-sustainability-new-leadership-framework
Virgin culture:
https://www.ukessays.com/essays/business/virgin-organizational-culture-and-history.php
Virgin: Talent attraction:
https://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/richard-branson-how-to-attract-the-right-employees
Vision and purpose:
https://hbr.org/2014/09/your-companys-purpose-is-not-its-vision-mission-or-values
Wired: Long tail:
https://www.wired.com/2004/10/tail/
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