Monday Morning Brief, October 7, 2013

Quote of the week:

“Creativity can be allocated, it can be budgeted, it can be measured, it can be tracked and encourage–but it can’t be dictated”

Jonathan Rosenberg – Google SVP for Product in this article.

Top recommended articles:

This is a summary of articels & posts that I came across over the past week:

Good reminder by Seth Godin on how to speak: Words. Sentences. Paragraphs. Stories.

Why “Focus” should be the next big thing. Post on Linked by psychologist Marla Gottschalk.

“Never hire anyone whose blast radius will be bigger than his or her impact radius”. HBR post on Design Ideas & Teams.

My top ten book recommendations on business presentations and public speaking.

Have a great start into the week!

Lars Sudmann

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