First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 11, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Katherine Bell for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org [.].

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 30, 2023

However, the pace of international trade of goods and services has been waning significantly since 2011, a trend that is being driven in part by the growing tide of nationalism. In this context, the question arises: how can industrial companies ensure sustainable growth in today’s global markets?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Good Company: Business Success in the Worthiness Era Laurie Bassi, Ed Frauenheim, Dan McMurrer, with Larry Costello Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2011) How and why companies must prove worthy of consumers’ business, employees’ best efforts, and investors’ dollars What’s in a word?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 27, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Finding & Keeping the Best People Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to recruit, hire, onboard, and retain the workers who possess the character, talent, and skills your company needs This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in HBR.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 11, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Katherine Bell for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org [.].

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 28, 2011

RT @ senendp : Coffee House Book Review – “The Drucker Lectures&# by Peter F. RT @ shawmu : Good stuff RT @ Geoff_Snyder : Coffee House Book Review – “The Drucker Lectures” [link] via @ tanveernaseer *Tx Shawn #. Can social media make your company smarter? Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-01-14.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As businesses plan for 2021, it’s a perfect time to practice 2020 Hindsight – reviewing observations from this year for insights and learnings to leverage in the coming 12 months. The operating model you’ve had in place for the past 10 years may have been perfect for 2011 but doesn’t work as well as it needs to for 2021.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Increasing Customer Loyalty Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to create customers who are profitable This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 13, 2014

An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. I’d like you to think back to three major or difficult decisions you had to make over the past year and review how did you make them? Good To Great.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Making Smart Decisions Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How best practices and expert advice can help you and your associates make smarter decisions In their classic book, Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis assert that what really matters “is not how (..)

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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

AUGUST 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi Harvard Business Review Press (2011) The strategic power of coherence According to Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi in the first chapter, to achieve and then sustain a competitive advantage, a company “must be resolutely focused and clear-minded (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 23, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Collaborating Effectively Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why to establish and then nourish mutually high-impact partnerships within and beyond your organization This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in HBR.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 21, 2010

I believe small companies make hiring mistakes more frequently. To make matters worse, we typically see small companies retain Low Job Fit talent. The result is a long-term performance drag on the bottom line of many small companies. The result is a long-term performance drag on the bottom line of many small companies.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 10, 2014

Zappos’ CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer-Led Culture By Tony Hsieh, Harvard Business Review In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions. 6 Habits of Resilient People By Gwen Moran, Fast Company On April Fool’s Day 2011, I was unexpectedly diagnosed with early-stage invasive breast cancer.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2011

How NET PROMOTER Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World Fred Reichheld with Rob Markey Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Here is an open-source system whose “engine” can drive profitable growth This is a revised and expanded second edition of a book published in 2006. The Ultimate Question 2.0:

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « Possibility Maximizer: American Express OPEN Forum | Main | Possibility Maximizer: Success.com Interview Podcasts » January 03, 2011 The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week - 2010 Rewind Edition Happy Monday and welcome to 2011! Tom Peters!

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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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LDRLB

AUGUST 2, 2011

First off, I am definitely not qualified to review a book on social media. So I’m approaching this review from the perspective of a business leader looking to learn more about how best to embark into online social networking endeavours. Your employees are already talking about your company on Facebook, or at the local pub.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Franz McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why the Toyota Way principles can achieve excellence in every part of almost any organization all the time I have read and reviewed all of Jeffrey Liker’s previously published [.]. Liker and James K.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Michelli McGraw-Hill (2011) Happiness should – and CAN – be an experience shared by everyone involved I have read and reviewed all of Joseph A. The Zappos Experience: 5 Principles to Inspire, Engage, and WOW Joseph A. Michelli’s previous books and consider each a unique and brilliant achievement.

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Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Does your company have a "master process"? Harvard Business Review). Business Process Management articles (BPM Institute) (Oct 2011). Our clients use Six Disciplines as the master process, which includes a series of annual, quarterly, weekly and daily repeatable cycles. Process Improvement (short video). Not sure where to start?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Walter Kiechel for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * Like Satan in the book of Job, [.].

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Tom Stewart is Booz & Company’s Chief Marketing & Knowledge Officer. In a recent email update, he asks several intriguing questions: Are there CEOs anywhere in the world who want their companies to become less innovative? Is anyone calling on employees to do a better job of thinking inside the box?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Escape Velocity: Free Your Company’s Future from the Pull of the Past Geoffrey A.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest post from John Mattone: The fundamental belief underlying Positive Performance Management (PPM) is this: Leaders and their employees must strive to make performance reviews complete, honest, and timely. Reduced Commitment and Alignment: “Neither my boss nor anyone in this company cares about me or the talents I bring. Your words.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s Great Companies Jim Stengel Crown Business (2011) How and why “maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.” Jim Stengel begins the first chapter with two separate but related questions: “What makes a business grow beyond the competition?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters Michael Burchell and Jennifer Robin Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) This is a book I have eagerly awaited. Year after year, Fortune posts its annual list of the “1oo Best Companies to Work For.” I have never questioned the selections nor [.].

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Management Excellence

APRIL 2, 2011

This week's selections feature content on: moving forward, taking steps to ensure that your company will appeal to the best and brightest of the Facebook Generation and some thoughts on Enchantment with Guy Kawasaki along with some new productivity tools. Every week, I share three thought-provoking management posts for the week.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 24, 2011

Wikibrands: Reinventing Your Company in a Custiner-Driven Marketplace Sean Moffitt and Mike Dover McGraw-Hill (2011) How the new levers of brand development achieve customer participation What is the meaning of the noun wikibrand(s)?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 29, 2011

Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence Tim Sanders Tyndale House Publishers (2011) A grandmother for all seasons In this his latest book, Tim Sanders creates a context, a frame-of-reference, for several concepts introduced in earlier works, notably in Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go [.].

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Women on Business

AUGUST 7, 2011

While I haven’t read the book, an article on Reuters suggests that the book Aligning Technology with Strategy by Harvard Business Review advises companies evaluate their IT costs to prevent overinvesting. Specifically, companies should: “Spend less. Evaluate expected returns from IT investments.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. I’d like you to think back to three major or difficult decisions you had to make over the past year and review how did you make them? Good To Great.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Researchers in Australia recently had an opportunity to explore the idea of brand devotion, identifying companies such as Nike, Volkswagen, Harley-Davidson and Louis Vuitton as having generated "cult-like" followings. Loveworks follows Brian''s books Basics: Online Marketing (2010) and Basics: Marketing Management (2011).

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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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LDRLB

AUGUST 2, 2011

First off, I am definitely not qualified to review a book on social media. So I’m approaching this review from the perspective of a business leader looking to learn more about how best to embark into online social networking endeavours. Your employees are already talking about your company on Facebook, or at the local pub.

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