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The Bloomberg-as-social-network analysis is a useful one because without it, it’s hard to see how Bloomberg has survived:

Marc Rubinstein • Disrupting Bloomberg

“What gets measured gets managed.” –Peter Drucker Considered “the founder of modern management,” author of The Effective

Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

William Poundstone comments in Priceless: The Psychology of Hidden Value:

Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop

If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent. You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they’re afraid to be punished if they don’t. For startups, there's so much pivoting that’s required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you’re in bad shape.

First Round Capital • Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals

I'm convinced that because Joy knew every part of our business as well or better than almost anyone running them, she was one of those rare CFO's that can play offense in addition to defense. Almost every other CFO I've met hews close to the stereotype; always reigning in spending, urging more fiscal conservatism, casting a skeptical eye on any bol... See more

Eugene Wei • Remove the legend to become one — Remains of the Day

Dr. Seuss’s management masterpiece Yertle the Turtle.

Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

“It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important,” George Soros once said, “but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.” You can be wrong half the time and still make a fortune.

Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

successful leveraging of top professionals is at the heart of the success of the professional firm.

David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm

Par ailleurs, la direction de l’entreprise, où se prennent les décisions, nécessite, beaucoup plus que des techniciens, des économistes ou des énarques, des esprits formés à une connaissance pluridisciplinaire et à une pensée complexe (y compris la conscience de l’écologie de l’action et la pratique de la stratégie en situation aléatoire).