I have just finished reading a book: "Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big" by Bo Burlingham. It was published in 2005 but I encountered it only this spring. It seems very important to me so below is my brief description of the book and its main idea. "Quietly and gradually … a new class of great companies has been forming …they have chosen not to focus on revenue growth or geographical expansion, pursuing instead other goals they consider more important than getting as big as possible, as fast as possible".

A world traveler who speaks ten languages, British linguist Richard Lewis decided he was qualified to plot the world's cultures on a chart. He did so while acknowledging the dangers of stereotypes. "Determining national characteristics is treading a minefield of inaccurate assessment and surprising exception," Lewis wrote. "There is, however, such a thing as a national norm." Many people think he nailed it, as his book "When Cultures Collide," now in its third edition, has sold more than one million copies since it was first published in 1996 and was called "an authoritative roadmap to navigating the world's economy," by the Wall Street Journal.

Dear friends, I've just finished reading the book "The Essential Deming. Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality" (The W. Edwards Deming Institute, 2013). My brief resume:

I have just finished reading of very important (IMHO) book - so my sincere apologies for such a long post: J.E. Stiglitz The price of inequality: how today's divided society endangers our future. - W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. N.Y. – 2012 – 414 P. Very good and very important book. The main ideas:

This interview with Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant (New York Times). "In terms of leadership, success is very dependent on the context. What works at Google or G.E. or Goldman Sachs is not going to be the right answer for everyone. I don’t think you’ll ever replace human judgment and human inspiration and creativity because, at the end of the day, you need to be asking questions like, O.K., the system says this. Is this really what we want to do? Is that the right thing?".

I have just finished reading the book "Freedom, Inc. Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher Productiv-ity, Profits, and Growth" by B.Carney and I.Getz. Wonderful, very interesting and very important book.