A batch of the best highlights from what Lukas's read, .
As work and organizations become more fluid—and business strategy comes to mean sensing and seizing new opportunities in a constantly changing environment, rather than planning for several years into a predictable future—companies must deploy talent in new ways. In fact, talent must lead strategy.
Talent Wins
Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, Dennis Carey
Your pricing (including hourly rate, scoping decisions, and value-based pricing, if you use it) is far less important in making oodles of money than your efficiency in stacking engagement after engagement, and without customizing each one.
Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors
David C. Baker, Emily Mills, and Bryn Mooth
Although life can sometimes feel confused, pointless, and frustrating, for the most part our actions seem to have some greater purpose and our lives some larger coherence. If they did not, there would be nothing to feel frustrated about and the pointlessness would not be noticeable.