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The Best Business Books Ever: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003.

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The Ultimate Productivity Hack Will Be Robot Assistants

Harvard Business Review

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. In 2003, DARPA contracted SRI International to lead a reported $200 million, five-year project to build a virtual assistant. The company was registered as SIRI Inc.

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Getting Collaboration Right

Harvard Business Review

Money is left on the table because managers are unwilling or unable to cross-sell their products and services, cross-pollinate resources to create new products, or share best practices to improve efficiency. Cisco managers will no doubt let us know in due course. Massive failures abound in the business world. So what's the right way?

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. Technology updates should be provided to the senior management team with the same frequency and rigor as financial statements and signed off on by the leadership team as part of the pay-for-performance framework. IT management'

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015. increase in stock price on the announcement day.