First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 8, 2012

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson Scribner/Simon & Schuster (2004) How and why the brain sciences can help to “open wide the mind’s caged door” I read this book before Steven Johnson’s later works, The Ghost Map (2006) and Where Good Ideas Come From (2011) and then re-read [.].

Open-book 80

Open-book Simon Books Review 80

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 1, 2014

Nurture your network by sending articles, books and emails to people to show you’re thinking about them. Have a point of view before you start a book or article and see if what you think is confirmed or refuted by the author. In 2006, Mr. Wien was named by New York Magazine as one of the sixteen most influential people in Wall Street.

Committee 341

Committee Career Travel Learning-by-Doing 341

LDRLB

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This was a 64-page book given to all employees. Ciulla (2004) argues that when organizations stress performance, leaders can be tempted to act unethical to meet performance goals. Gladwell (2006). Not just any code. With so many written ethical policies, what could go wrong? Ciulla, J. Ethics: The heart of leadership (2nd ed.).

Policies 60

Policies Ethics Document Stress 60

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

His life took a turn in 2004 and he “managed to taper off the drugs.” Shortly after, the prescription fraud was discovered and it led to the loss of his medical license in 2006. We recently spoke about our work and book, Connection Culture, to more than 300 leaders at Yale New Haven Health’s Annual Directors’ Meeting.

P&L 150

P&L Stress Self-aware Human Needs 150

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The myriad of business books aimed at big companies assume that a significant leadership infrastructure is already in place. But those books won’t help midsized firms build their leadership infrastructure from scratch, with very little time and few resources. In August 2006, Lyndon Faulkner came on board to lead the company.

Leadership 247

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 247

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Since my Stanford colleague Huggy Rao and I decided several years ago to study scaling (it’s the topic of our forthcoming book Scaling Up Excellence ), we have heard about many others – so many that we thought, early on, that we might need to put a finer point on which form we hoped to shed light on.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” The book is all about the challenge of finding something that works really well in some corner of your world, and getting it to spread much further (or, for shorthand, “the Problem of More” ). Today is Facebook’s 10 th anniversary.

Engineering 11

Engineering Class Software Mentor 11