Profile of Micheal Kelly

All articles of Micheal Kelly

• How to build a startup ecosystem
  Brad Feld, Startup Communities: Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in your city. Wiley, 2012. Many attempts have been made over the years, ...
• Applying the Toyota model to the world of startups
  Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Business Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Crown ...
• Why successful companies hold back on growth
  Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck -- Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. Harper Business, 2011. His ...
• Innovating like Steve Jobs
  Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Harvard Business ...
• Shareholder value theory and the NFL
  Shareholder value theory has come under assault from several directions over the last few years. However, in Fixing the Game, Rotman School of ...
• Overcoming the quick-fix appeal of outsourcing
  I am often asked to recommend business books. Recently, I have had several people ask me for books on outsourcing. These requests were usually ...
• Business leaders hiding in plain sight
  Over the years, management bestsellers such as In Search of Excellence and Good to Great have drawn their success stories and management lessons ...
• Breakfast at Buck’s and other Silicon Valley stories
  Buck’s is one of those unique Silicon Valley institutions. A beloved restaurant in Woodside, Calif., it is also a hub of the Valley’s venture ...
• Don’t be a ‘bosshole’
  Lately, the news has been full of stories of the toxic leadership at Canada’s Public Sector Integrity Commission. The recent auditor general’s ...
• You've heard of smartphones – now try smart pricing
  Studies show that only a small percentage of companies are innovative in their pricing strategies. For most, pricing decisions continue to be ...
• Why big companies often fail at innovation
  Numerous surveys over the last several years have indicated that CEOs of leading companies consistently rank innovation as their top ...
• Doing business in an institutional void
  According to a Western executive quoted in this book, “There’s a very nice saying in India, which is: you might have the clocks, but we ...
• Managing your business the Indian way
  In the last few years, the emergence of India as an economic power and the increasing presence of Indian companies on the international scene ...
• Bringing Greek philosophy to the Chinese dragon
  I often think of Heraclitus when I visit China, where the pace of change is fast and relentless. I have now been there over 20 times in the last ...
• Designing a winning strategy
  Currently dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Mr. Martin is well known internationally for his work on ...
• How to electrify your company
  At the same time, recent corporate and financial scandals have raised questions about the basic value system of American business. In the ...
• Spatially challenged? Here's the book for you
  Have you looked closely at your company’s business model? Do you have a clear understanding of how it delivers value to your ...
• The Asian powerhouses: All they're cracked up to be?
  One of the major economic stories of the last decade has been the rise of China and India as global economic powers. In the last 10 years, China ...
• Why the government is a bad investor
  This book provides a very sobering look at the results of government efforts to promote entrepreneurial activity, and should be mandatory reading ...
• I love it when a plan comes together
  It’s an old military adage that no battle plan survives initial contact with the enemy. Similarly, in the world of entrepreneurial ...
• Forget PowerPoint - time to get sticky
  I am an obsessive consumer of business books. In fact, several years ago, in an effort to improve my reading habits, my wife made me commit to ...
• Hubris born of success: Why Nortel should read this...
  The senior executive team of Nortel Networks Corp. were reportedly big fans of Jim Collins’ previous book, Good to Great, which provides a ...
• Analyzing your chance of success
  Edward Demmings is reputed to have said “in God we trust, all others bring data.” Yet, many businesses continue to be run on gut ...
• 'Stop thinking like bureaucrats and start thinking...
  On the front cover of this book, former Intel Corp. chairman Andy Grove is quoted as saying that “Rao’s shrewd analysis ...