First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin FT Press/Pearson (2011) How and why global networks of highly specialized expertise create value in the challenge driven enterprise In Open Business Models (2003), Henry Chesbrough observes, “An open business model uses a new (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 8, 2011

Harvard Business Review on INSPIRING & EXECUTING INNOVATION Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to create and then deliver new or better products and services This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in HBR.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2011

He also possesses an especially innovative mind with an eye toward business. KenBlanchard : Speaker, Business Guru, and Author of over 50 books, including The One Minute Manager. James wrote Serve To Lead and books on both Reagan and Roosevelt’s leadership. Lazarus Ross. Twitter Bio. Twitter Bio. Laurie Beth Jones.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. This compares with just one in 2011.)

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

 This week I've got a unique and excellent resource from Fast Company that I would like to point you to.  Enjoy!   The Resource:    Fast Company's 30 Second MBA What it is:   30 Second MBA is a unique video resource that in some ways resembles a virtual university.

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CO2

OCTOBER 12, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Too Much Innovation? I have the privilege recently to work with a technology company that has one of their three core values as innovative. Are we too innovative?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Jumping the S-Curve: How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top, and Stay There Paul Nunes and Tim Breene Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How companies can reach progressively high levels of achievement The title of this book refers to pattern of consistently elevating (“jumping”) a company to progressively high levels of achievement.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 6, 2011

Aaker Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons (2011) If your “brand” isn’t relevant, neither are you or your company Those who have read any of David Aaker’s previous books already know that he presents information, insights, and counsel that are anchored in specific real-world circumstances within a broad and deep [.].

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CO2

OCTOBER 12, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Too Much Innovation? I have the privilege recently to work with a technology company that has one of their three core values as innovative. Are we too innovative?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy?

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 4, 2012

For the last 10 years, Doug has served as the President and CEO of Campbell Soup Company, which under his stewawdship was transformed from one of the worst Fortune 500 organizations in terms of employee engagement levels to one of the best. for Canadian readers).

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CO2

DECEMBER 24, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. They have been studying over the past decade innovation within established organizations. This is such a straight forward book well thought out and well executed.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 22, 2011

Obviously this blog isn’t about the future of air travel, and none of the submitting companies are clients of ours (yet). Tagged as: Boeing , future flight , NASA { 4 comments… read them below or add one } Thabo Hermanus January 23, 2011 at 7:59 am Kevin, this really pushes the boundaries and the pictures are awesome.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 19, 2012

Fast Company has called Shama “an online marketing shaman” and Entrepreneur Magazine has dubbed her the “Zen Master of Marketing”. Click on the player below to listen to the podcast: [Visit my website to listen to this podcast] Noteworthy links : Buy Shama Kabani’s book “The Zen of Social Media Marketing” on Amazon.com (or Amazon.ca

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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CO2

OCTOBER 16, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. via Questions Are The Answer | Management Innovation eXchange. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions.

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CO2

JANUARY 26, 2011

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Find out about 10 of the most incredible company-sponsored trips ever taken, and don’t forget to send your boss here, too. Regis became booked solid.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager. If your company is in products, services, or businesses that you wouldn’t enter into if you weren’t in that particular arena today…GET OUT!

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Okay, so you founded the company, but does that mean you should also be the chief executive? Which hat, or hats do you wear? What does a CEO really do anyway?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Ask yourself this question…Who is more loyal; an employee who has been with the company a long time but is an under-performer, or a less tenured employee who always goes the extra mile and consistently exceeds expectations? the company is not leveraging its true talent base.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Books that predict the future are interesting, although perhaps preparing for it, and creating it, usually provide greater returns. Jeanne Meister and Karie Willyerd recently published an HR-focused book, The 2020 workplace: How innovative companies attract, develop, and keep tomorrow’s employees today.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 28, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Five Minutes – a Key to Successful Time Management by Kevin Eikenberry on January 28, 2011 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning , Manage Projects , Personal Development Every leader I talk to tells me they are busy.

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Succession Management Learning-by-Doing Goal 207

Coaching Tip

MARCH 15, 2011

Understanding and using time to overcome life’s challenges is a topic I cover extensively in my book, THE POWER OF ADVERSITY: Tough Times Can Make You Stronger, Wiser, and Better. All it takes is the desire to be innovative and creative in tackling a problem. Entrepreneurship.

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Pharmaceuticals Creativity Long-term Power 84

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 12, 2012

Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Stephen Wunker McGraw-Hill (2011) How to locate, penetrate, and dominate in new markets or in new customer segments Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about where and how to generate new revenue sources when competing in a global economy such as the current one, (..)

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Marketing Review Books Globalization 75

Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

There are two important things you should know about this book right away: This book is written by a good writer who has been an executive in a Fortune 500 company; so, it is not only well written, but it’s readable and practical. This book is a Second Edition – a “revised and expanded&# book.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

You will also be competing to retain talented employees that other companies would like to lure away. What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? If you don’t have direct competition you’ll surely have indirect competition.

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CO2

OCTOBER 16, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Check out this newly released book. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip. I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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CO2

OCTOBER 16, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. via Questions Are The Answer | Management Innovation eXchange. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 12, 2012

Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Stephen Wunker McGraw-Hill (2011) How to locate, penetrate, and dominate in new markets or in new customer segments Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about where and how to generate new revenue sources when competing in a global economy such as the current one, (..)

Marketing 70

Marketing Review Books Globalization 70

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 29, 2010

In my upcoming book, From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership , my co-author Guy Harris and I talk about task functions of leadership and people functions of leadership – and these facts are one reason why this difference is so important. I am looking forward to your new book.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Toxic personalities will put a damper on morale, attempt to intimidate and/or manipulate co-workers for personal gain, and can even chase away a company’s best talent. Here are "9 Signs That Your Next Company Cares About Its Employees." link] Donna Svei Great post Mike. I Think Not.

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Environment Blog Due Diligence Brand 419

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

September 20, 2011 Servant Leadership. Monthly: September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Servant Leadership Observer – April 2011. Servant Leadership Observer – March 2011. Book Says Servant Leadership Critical for Marketing Leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

If you’re passionate about something it means you care so much that it hurts…Refusing to surrender, and having the ability to make the tough decision or the needed sacrifice, will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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