We are in a Starbucks in Berlin, Michael and I. Friedrichstrasse. Mine’s a grande latte, with an extra shot and no sugar. Today I pass on the caramel shortbread. Michael has a bottle of still water.
We sit down at the corner table near the window. I’m firing up my laptop when he hits me with his news.
“I’m going to be VP in charge of business strategy,” he says.
“Wow, that’s great,” I say, a little shocked. I’m usually pretty hot on the latest gossip, but I had totally missed this. “When do you start?”
He grins at me sheepishly and looks out of the window. “Oh, twelfth of never,” he replies. “I’m just dreaming. I’d never get that.” And he almost strangles his bottle of water getting the cap off.
Michael’s dream sets me thinking. I cast my mind over the many conversations I’ve had with clients and friends in the past few years – formal coaching sessions and informal coffee conversations. And I realise there’s something really big happening.
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Do you find yourself running between a thousand to-do lists but never actually achieving anything significant? Well, in this post I want to tell you about ‘A Bias for Action’, the last book written by Professor Sumantra Ghoshal, of London Business School, and published by Harvard Business Press after his sudden, sad death in 2004.
It did sell well, but it’s in danger of not getting much ongoing traction, so I’m bringing it to the top of the pile again.
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