“If you are looking for a business school that teaches you how to think creatively, design new products and services, manage your innovations through a corporate bureaucracy, or present them to outside angel investors, Fontaine-bleau, France-based Insead, the leading European B-school, just outside Paris, may be just the place. Insead has joined with the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., to offer a joint program that teaches the role of creativity in business decisions, how innovation really works, and why design may be as important to corporate management today as Six Sigma was in the ’90s. A Swiss trustee who sits on both boards brought them together.”

Part 1 of 4: “The stuff coming up focuses upon three things. I kept it to three things because it’s often said that in any given line of business you only need to know three things. The trick is in knowing which three. I don’t know how true that is, but I’m running with it. The ‘three things’ in the business of managing your boss are: 1) Understanding Yourself; 2) Understanding The Boss; 3) Understanding The Relationship. Sounds simple, eh? Like I mentioned earlier, it’s highly compressed.”