Books

German economist E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful is more relevant today than when he wrote this gem of a book in the early 1970s. There is, without a doubt, a universal idolatry of gigantism (bigness). How big is big enough, one wonders. And ironically, once great size is achieved among nations, companies or portfolios, there is the ever pressing need to create smallness within the bigness, so the girth can be efficiently managed. 

Peter Drucker emphasizes that all of us can separate the wheat from the chaff by focusing on the right priorities. Mega talent like DaVinci, Napoleon, Mozart have always managed themselves. With talent alone they would have fallen off the pages of history. We can all use a little help learning to manage ourselves.