First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 18, 2012

The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life Twyla Tharp Simon & Schuster ((2006) Enjoy the pleasure of her company and the magic of her mind As is my custom when a new year begins, I recently re-read this book and The Collaborative Habit. The insights that Twyla Tharp shares in them are, [.].

Creativity 75

Creativity Simon Books Review 75

The Idolbuster

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Do you remember when Walmart decided to stop selling guns in 2006? the company was going to drop his ad agency, and before they announced it, Don wrote a letter to the NY Times saying they would no longer create ads for tobacco because of the negative health impact. NOT AT ALL. It saved the company.

First-mover Advantage 40

First-mover Advantage Health Care Morale Letter 40

Coaching Tip

JULY 30, 2014

The following article was adapted from Robert Prechter''s June 2014 issue of The Elliott Wave Theorist, one of the longest-running investment letters in the business, continuously published monthly since 1979. By Elliott Wave International. Figure 1 shows the stock market''s waves from 1693 to the present.

Marketing 84

Marketing Real Estate Self-aware Price 84

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2011

If success causes happiness, then every employee who gets a promotion, every student who receives an acceptance letter, everyone who has ever accomplished a goal of any kind should be happy. In 2006, he was Head Teaching Fellow for ‘Positive Psychology,’ the most popular course at Harvard at the time.

Bottom-up 62

Bottom-up Case Study Motivation Letter 62

Women in the LEAD

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

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Letter 40

Letter Open-book Learning-by-Doing Globalization 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. Reportedly, Facebook has also attempted to enter China, though it has faced tremendous public outcry and difficulty in doing so.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Quoted text: "After reading a portion of the letter with his eyes squinting at the small writing, Washington suddenly stopped. Washington read the remainder of the letter, then left without saying another word, realizing their sentiments. What were yours? His officers stared at him, wondering.

Influence 301

Influence Blog Leadership Video 301

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

He wrote a letter to his wife, while in winter quarters, to explain why he could not come visit her and his daughter: “Whilst it would be a great comfort to see you and my little daughter, duty requires me to remain here. Great post.

Leadership 419

Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

The first installment had been written in 2006. It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. Last week Elon Musk released the second installment of Tesla’s Master Plan.

Strategy 8

Strategy Automotive Mass Marketing Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

You may have had stellar experience in marketing, for instance, but if you left your job in 2006, you’ve missed the entirety of the social media era, and an employer might be justified in wondering if you’ve kept up. In your cover letter and interviews, be sure to cite any germane volunteer experience.

Career 11

Career Skills Open-book Long-term 11

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 27, 2010

Or perhaps retrace the letters with your pen or pencil, just to make absolutely sure you knew it was important (but you weren’t exactly ready to take it on). Mary’s University in San Antonio – I wrote another piece about him and his remarkable teaching methods for Rosa Say’s blog back in 2006) Popularity: 2% [ ?

Productivity 275

Productivity Products Blog Learning-by-Doing 275

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

national polls since 2006, our research has consistently shown that 72% of Americans or more prefer the status quo rather than new construction in their communities. Send a letter? As you build your database of supporters, keep them constantly informed and up to date on the process and give them talking points to use in supporting it.

Construction 8

Construction Politics Real Estate Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Between 2006 and 2012, the company was involved, sometimes as plaintiff and sometimes as defendant, in nearly 150 patent lawsuits around the world over various features of its iPhone — including hardware, software, and product design. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. And so Apple has.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In early 2006, Diego Rodriguez and I started teaching a class we called “Creating Infectious Action” at the Stanford d. We were tickled when we realized the coincidence, because it wasn’t long at all after we started thinking about scaling that we had our first conversations with someone from Facebook.

Engineering 11

Engineering Class Software Mentor 11

Deming Institute

APRIL 3, 2020

We cannot escape the interconnectedness of our world, for according to writer/teacher/speaker Dr. Margaret Wheatley , “In the quantum world, relationships are not just interesting; to many physicists, they are all there is to reality” (Wheatley, 2006, p. Hernandez, S., Pettersson, H., & Watts, A. 2020, April 2). Retrieved from [link].

System 72

System Deming Constraint Goldratt 72

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

In 2006 Geisinger embarked on a broad care delivery reengineering initiative around cardiac surgery called ProvenCare. Frequent thank you letters from satisfied patients in this program often highlight the importance of our nurse and program coordinator. Why was cardiac surgery ready and spinal surgery not?

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Your Voice of Encouragement

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

But it’s so much more… I was already familiar with the story that formed the basis for the book because it received coverage on every major TV station in 2006. Letters poured in to Jim from parents whose children are autistic or otherwise mentally and physically challenged.

Teamwork 102

Teamwork Sports Open-book Video 102

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

39 (Winter 2006): 24-29. Permission to copy: Send a fax (+1-201-748-6008) or letter to John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Print citation: Goldsmith, Marshall, and Goldsmith, Kelly “Helping People Achieve Their Goals” Leader to Leader. This article is available on the Leader to Leader Institute Web site, [link].

Goal 137

Goal Short-term Long-term Crisis 137

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The story begins in 2006 and continues to this day. Accustomed to being perceived as the forward-thinking company that could do no wrong, Apple was blindsided by a 2006 Greenpeace sustainability ranking that placed it near the bottom of computer manufacturers in terms of environmental performance. Apple is the latest example of this.

Strategy 13

Strategy Reputation PR Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

"They fall asleep because of the shifts they work," said a controller in a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle. most controllers are exhausted," concluded the letter writer. A typical shift pattern starts at 6 a.m. on Monday, 10 a.m. on Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 8 a.m. and then again at 10 p.m. on Thursday.

Absenteeism 13

Absenteeism Attrition Letter Cost 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

The CEOs of dozens of corporate giants  — including Alcoa, Apple, Bank of America, Citibank, Facebook, Google, IBM, Kellogg, Marriott, PwC, and Starbucks  — sent an open letter to the governor to defend “protections for LGBT people.” In 2006 55% of Americans opposed same-sex marriage and 35% supported it.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Morale Banking Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Note that the legal profession’s no picnic for women: The percentage of female equity partners in law firms has increased only two percentage points in the past 10 years , from 16% in 2006 to 18% in 2016. Like engineers, lawyers pride themselves on being highly analytical. But not “pure” engineers. They get a pass.

Engineering 8

Engineering Diversity Survey Emotional Intelligence 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

It was in a letter to the editor and focussed on control, slick lines, and manipulation. Mark https://truthforlifecoaching.wordpress.com Bridget Haymond As someone who follows your lovely wife on twitter I know how true your words are, and what a blessing she is to many others as well! link] landoncreasy Hi Mike, Wow.

Blog 291

Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 291

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. In the 18-and-a-half years that I was there, I got a huge number of letters, or notes or whatever, [urging] us to lower interest rates. So there’s a huge political, regulatory asymmetry.

Long-term 11

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11