First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Cohen AMACOM (2014) A brilliant explanation of how to apply the most valuable lessons to be learned from Peter Drucker (1909 –2005) The title of this book seems somewhat redundant because Peter Drucker is, in my opinion, the most practical business […].

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Drucker Books Review Class 75

Curious Cat

JANUARY 3, 2017

Toyota Post Record Profit: Splits $15 million in Pay and Bonus for top 21 Executives (2014). The Purpose of an Organization (2005). Deming and Software Development (2014) *. Building a Great Software Development Team (2014). * 6 posts were new to the top 20 list this year (posts from 2004, 2010, 2011, 2013 [2] and 2014).

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

During halftime, TCU will celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Frogs for the Cure” which began in 2005 when TCU athletics partnered with Susan G. Enthusiasm and energy will be on full display this Saturday as the #6 TCU Horned Frogs football team host the #7 Kansas State Wildcats at 6:30 pm EDT on Fox.

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Video Self-aware Team Building Energy 304

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

When Dr. Nido Qubein assumed the presidency in January 2005, he realized the enormous potential of this academy of higher learning. News & World Report picked HPU in 2014 as #1 among up and coming schools and the #1 regional college in the south. United Way contributions were over $200,000 in 2014. “We

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Leadership Education Wireless Rogers 150

Curious Cat

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Purpose of an Organization (2005). Steve Jobs on Quality, Business and Joseph Juran (2014). Toyota Post Record Profit: Splits $15 million in Pay and Bonus for top 21 Executives (2014). Building a Great Software Development Team (2014). 7 of the 10 most popular posts in 2014 were in the top 10 again this year.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Likewise, we’ve had around 700 rising leaders participate in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program since the first cohort we ran in 2005. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that evening was the impetus for writing my second book Overworked and Overwhelmed in 2014. Strong relationships depend on trust.

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Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing 241

Coaching Tip

APRIL 3, 2014

For example, at General Motors , former Vice Chairman Bob Lutz''s "Fast Lane" blog generated 10,000 reader responses in January 2005 and received 4,000 to 6,000 daily visitors. Sources: The Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2014. People feel they can really have a conversation with someone who has a blog. Lutz wrote, ".I Related articles.

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CEO Chief Executive Officer Self-aware Travel 109

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Readers of this blog are aware of the problems created by using quotas: Achieved the goal by not the aim (2013) – The Futility of a Numerical Goal (2014) , Distorting the System, Distorting the Data or Improving the System (2013) , Dr. Deming on the problems with targets or goals.

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Cost Deming Management System 35

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

Sir Alan Sugar, a British business magnate, and media personality said in 2005, “Next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput.” ” As of 2014, 390 million units were sold. Solar power has generated over 17 times what was predicted in 2000.

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Project Letter Trends Wilde 67

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 26, 2016

In 2005, J. In 2014, after a massive amount of searches on Merriam Webster’s on-line dictionary site, “culture” was proclaimed the “word of the year. “ Twenty years ago, corporate or business culture sort of just happened…good, bad or indifferent. Kotter and James L. Did Not Manage Their Cultures Revenue growth of 166 percent.

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Heskett Kotter Mission Statement Competitive Advantage 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

Jeff Pickard founded Lucion in 2005 and brings over 15 years of management experience and innovation to Lucion, where he continues to steer Lucion’s technology advancements in the document management and paperless office software markets. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 8, 2016

I have written about the importance and value of prediction on my Curious Cat blog several times, including: Management is Prediction (2005) , Write it Down (2007) , Predicting Improves Learning (2007).

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Deming Seminar Management Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall. ” I said, But they don’t look good, we need to do something about it. He said, “Do you have any other plan other than painting the walls?” ” I said, No.

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Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

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Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. A 2014 McKinsey & Co. And these folks don’t necessarily have a clue. Read the rest of the series here.

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Many governments are currently rethinking their policies regarding cross-border data flows.

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Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2020

billion m³ between 2005 and 2018 to cover 22% of land area. The 2019 Social Progress Index reports, “since 2014, the world average score increased from 61.80 The number of people around the world killed in wars fell 43% since 2014. Automakers have committed $225 billion for electric vehicles in the next five years.

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Globalization Report Energy Sample 94

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 For the decade 2005-2014, McDonald’s expended $29.4 In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6 In 2014, when the pay of McDonald’s CEO was $6.4 In 2014, when the pay of McDonald’s CEO was $6.4

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Perhaps these cutbacks are a response to overshooting earlier on because of “ globaloney.”

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Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Since its spin-off in July 2014, the capitalization of Seventy Seven Energy, the former oilfield services business of Chesapeake Energy, has melted by more than 75%, at least partially reflecting continued dependence on its former parent for about 90% of its revenues.

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Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In 2005, they launched a U.S. Wal-Mart, for example, aimed to double fleet efficiency between 2005 and 2015 through better routing, truck loading, driver training, and advanced technologies. By the end of 2014, they had improved fuel efficiency approximately 87% compared to the 2005 baseline. Some 62.4%

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Perhaps these cutbacks are a response to overshooting earlier on because of “ globaloney.”

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Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Silicon Valley–based Y Combinator launched the first seed accelerator program, in 2005, in Boston, followed closely by TechStars , which was founded the next year in Boulder, Colorado. based accelerators increased by an average of 50% each year between 2008 and 2014. Accelerators in the United States. The number of U.S.-based

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Venture Capitalist Incubator Finance Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

year from 2005-2014, with the slowdown starting well before the global financial crisis. 2014, it precipitated much wailing and gnashing of teeth. But just as the economists and IT enthusiasts were completing their victory lap, productivity growth headed into the doldrums for a decade — growing at an anemic 1.4%/year

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Productivity Products Price Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. By 2005, eBay was already being locally outmatched — by none other than Jack Ma’s Taobao.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2016

In 2005 Amazon launched its Prime service, which offers members free two-day shipping. In 2014 Heineken was facing a challenge around the world: Its consumers, especially the young “in crowd,” were beginning to prefer local craft beers that were seen as more authentic. Consider these three cases: Amazon’s Prime Now.

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Advertising Retail Content Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Silver Star, the second-largest soccer ball production firm in town, with over 2,000 employees, learned about the die almost immediately, and by March 2014 was using it for all of its pentagon cutting. One large firm adopted the die early on, even though it was not in the initial group of recipients. What is unusual about this company?

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Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Angelou received several honors throughout her career, including two NAACP Image Awards in the outstanding literary work (nonfiction) category, in 2005 and 2009. . Rosa Parks (1913-2005). In 1991, she gave her final concert at New York’s renowned Carnegie Hall.

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Open-book Career Learning-by-Doing Licensing 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. On paper, Walmart appears to have adopted many best practices and to have set out a sound plan for moving forward.

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Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Sarsons looked at the CVs of 552 economists who went up for tenure between 1975 and 2014 in one of the top 30 PhD-granting universities in the United States. Tenure committees then have to make a judgment call as to who put the most effort into the research — and this is where bias can creep in.

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Teamwork Committee Sample Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Census Bureau, there were 700,000 fewer net businesses created from 2005 to 2014 than from 1985 to 1994. Despite the media buzz around unicorns, the U.S. economy is steadily becoming less hospitable to startups. According to data from the U.S.

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Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Their sample included 35,081 firms and 407 buyouts that took place between 1998 and 2005. In 2014, exits from buyouts reached a new all-time high, exceeding $450 billion , according to Bain’s Global Private Equity Report. that didn’t undergo buyouts. . ” Private equity has grown immensely over the past three decades.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

In 2014 the company shelled out $650 million to buy AI startup DeepMind Technologies and went to great lengths to keep that firm’s 50 AI scientists and engineers in place. from 2005 to 2015 came from freelance work. But your work environment is also a chief concern. All that to say, independent contractors are here to stay.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W. In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank.

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Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. A version of this article first appeared in the July 2014 issue of Harvard Business Manager , the German edition of Harvard Business Review.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

“You know how many people went to the dealer and buy new cars?

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Motivation Survey Incentives Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In 2005, after AT&T was purchased by SBC, Anne was asked to move to Texas, where the new company was based. But by 2014, her perspective had changed. Anne Chow spent the first 15 years of her career at AT&T, earning promotion after promotion, at the company’s headquarters in New Jersey. She declined to move.

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How To Long-term Short-term Career 8