Books
Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan discuss the guiding principles behind their new book Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results.
Mergercast
In this episode, Justin Pettit, a Partner at Booz & Company, shares his thinking on what the healthcare M&A market will look like over the remainder of 2010 and beyond now that deals have heated up again. He explores issues including: the key drivers in healthcare M&A at this point in the cycle, the importance of capabilities and their impact on post-merger integration, those areas that must be addressed in order to properly complete a capabilities-driven merger integration, and the extent to which this applies to other industries.
Featured Foresight
China strategy today doesn't just mean implementing a set of plans for doing business in China — most big companies are already selling to China’s markets and competing against Chinese companies. A true China strategy is different, as Booz & Company's Edward Tse outlines in his new book, The China Strategy. What's needed is a one world strategy: a long-range plan for doing business as a global enterprise in which China is a central and integrated component.
Organization, Change & Leadership
Helping leaders to identify good fights from bad ones is The Right Fight: How Great Leaders Use Healthy Conflict to Drive Performance, Innovation, and Value by Booz & Company Senior Fellow Saj-nicole Joni and Senior Executive Adviser Damon Beyer.