Bill Taylor Resources

Tools and ideas to help you and your organization grow and change

Quizzes and Diagnostics

HBR: What Breaking the 4-Minute Mile Taught Us About the Limits of Conventional Thinking

Slickest Plane Ever?

HMR: How WD-40 Created a Learning-Obsessed Company Culture

Manifestos and Essays

HBR: What Breaking the 4-Minute Mile Taught Us About the Limits of Conventional Thinking

Slickest Plane Ever?

HMR: How WD-40 Created a Learning-Obsessed Company Culture

HBR: What If Amazon’s Next Big Innovation Was to Improve the Jobs of Its Blue-Collar Workers?

Case Studies and Excerpts

HBR: What Breaking the 4-Minute Mile Taught Us About the Limits of Conventional Thinking

Slickest Plane Ever?

HMR: How WD-40 Created a Learning-Obsessed Company Culture

Video and Audio

Fix Their Problem, Win the Deal

Why You Should Read Your Memo Out Loud

How One Fast-Food Chain Keeps Its Turnover Rates Absurdly Low

Why the Future Belongs to Tough-Minded Optimists

Companies Can’t Be Great Unless They’ve Almost Failed

The Best Entrepreneurs Are Missionaries, Not Mercenaries

Write a Failure Résumé to Learn What Makes You Succeed

There’s No Such Thing As an Average Business, Just Average Ways to Do Business