First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2011

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. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.].

Books 85

Books Review Management Ansoff 85

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

That’s nearly double the rate from 2004 to 2007. Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. Planned successions exclude mergers and acquisitions, as well as situations when CEOs are abruptly forced out.) one of the authors of the study.

CEO 8

CEO Company Telecommunications Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Yahoo’s forays into China started with a build strategy, which later became a buy strategy and ultimately morphed into a partnership strategy. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. Their missions’ success rests on their ability to stay resilient and perform effectively in adverse circumstances.

Stress 14

Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” As Cox explained to Huggy and me in 2011, the company had figured out it needed to add an engineer for every 500,000 new users, so the pressure to make hires was relentless. Today is Facebook’s 10 th anniversary.

Engineering 12

Engineering Class Software Mentor 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. When Knudstorp took over as CEO in 2004, he quickly settled on a course of action: return the company to its core. Build a Re-Founding Team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Seize control of your strategy and budget processes, which too often are designed to ensure every bureaucrat holds on to last year’s resources, and demand a real discussion of where you must redeploy resources. In 2011, TPG sold it to Diageo, for about $2.1 Check your last executive committee meeting agenda.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The color revolutions wanted a change in leadership. These were all tangible goals that they could build a strategy around. In Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution, the incoming team was unable to create a unified, effective government, and soon the country devolved into chaos once again.

Succession 8

Succession Tactics Resistance Power 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

I interviewed more than 50 executives and mid-level managers who had worked for HP in the 2004-2007 timeframe, many of whom reported to Fiorina and subsequently worked with her successor, Mark Hurd. Between 2005 and 2011, there were three CEOs who were fired (including Fiorina and Hurd) before Meg Whitman became CEO in 2011.

CEO 8

CEO Charisma COO Execution 8