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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) A 21st century version of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave In his comments in the “Editor’s Note” section that precedes the Introduction, Warren Bennis acknowledges that he was fascinated (..)

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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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OCTOBER 19, 2013

At the end of 2002 he started his own innovation organization to spread, train and facilitate the FORTH innovation […]. Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein and ECCI XII (Faro (2011).

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MARCH 11, 2011

Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results Roger Connors and Tom Smith Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2011) A comprehensive, cohesive, and cost-effective methodology to achieve breakthrough results In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests that much (most?)

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NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Hansen Harper Business/A HarperCollins Imprint (2011)Additional and even more valuable revelations about “the principles that distinguish great organizations from good ones” For as long as I can remember, Jim Collins has been a research-driven business [.].

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Hansen Harper Business/A HarperCollins Imprint (2011) Additional and even more valuable revelations about “the principles that distinguish great organizations from good ones” For as long as I can remember, Jim Collins has been a research-driven [.].

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Velocity Manifesto: Harnessing Technology, Vision, and Culture to Future-Proof Your Organization Scott Klososky Greenlead Book Group (2011) Digital plumbing + high-beam strategy + high-velocity culture = business success (however defined) Almost immediately, Scott Klososky establishes and then sustains a direct, personal, and at times almost confrontational (..)

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) How and why leadership is about the growth and positive change that almost anyone can bring about while working with others All organizations need effective leadership at all levels and in all areas of their operations. [.]. Jansen Kraemer Jr.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

Bacon AMACOM (2011) Bacon explains his own model of power and influence: “There are five sources of power that stem from your position and participation in an organization: role power; resource power; information power, network power; and reputation.” The Elements of Power: Lessons on Leadership and Influence Terry R.

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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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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

How Too Much Information Is Hazardous to Your Organization Jonathan B. Spira John Wiley & Sons (2011) How and why more information usually means less information has impact Chip and Dan Heath are the co-authors of two brilliant books, Made to Stick and Switch. In the first, they explain (as its subtitle suggests) “why [.].

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JUNE 1, 2012

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, and Bill Huyett John Wiley & Sons (2011) How executives can make much better decisions – “even as markets, economies, and industries change around them” All organizations need a solid foundation on which their executives can base their most important decisions about strategy, (..)

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MARCH 24, 2011

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Gino Wickman Virtual CEO (2011) Without traction, no individual or organization accomplishes anything. As I began to read this book, I was reminded of a book co-authored by Chip and Dan Heath in which they explain why a few ideas “stick&# but most don’t. It can also be [.].

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JULY 5, 2011

The Bully-Free Workplace: Stop Jerks, Weasels, and Snakes From Killing Your Organization Gary Namie and Ruth F. Namie John Wiley & Sons (2011) Tolerance of inappropriate behavior condones it.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage Scott Keller and Colin Price John Wiley & Sons (2011) How to achieve and then sustain both outstanding leadership and management throughout the given enterprise Scott Keller and Colin Price acknowledge that although there is a “multitude” of books about business leadership (..)

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Moore Harper Business/A HarperCollins Imprint (2011) How to free your organization from “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” The quotation in the title of this review is from Leading Change in which James O’Toole brilliantly explains why most [.].

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Breaking Away: How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth – and Why Others Fail Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why to create a “magic mix” of innovation leadership with innovation processes Year after year, annual lists of the most highly creative organizations include “the usual suspects”: Amazon, (..)

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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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APRIL 19, 2011

I thought a survey of CEO’s published in the Monday, April 18, 2011 edition of the Wall Street Journal underscores that many just never learn. a non-profit research organization. The survey was conducted by the highly credible Conference Board, Inc.,

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APRIL 25, 2011

Fully Charged: How Great Leaders Boost Their Organization’s Energy and Ignite High Performance Heike Bruch and Bernd Vogel Harvard Business Review Press (2011) The power and impact of “organizational energy” As I began to read this brilliant book, I was reminded of how much of value that Tony Schwartz has to say (in The Way [.].

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Derek Dean and Caroline Webb for The McKinsey Quarterly (January 2011). Source: Organization Practice [.]

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JANUARY 28, 2012

Andrea Kates (akates@BusinessGenome.com) is the founder of the Business Genome® project and author of the visionary bestselling business innovation book, Find Your Next (McGraw-Hill, November 2011).

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MARCH 12, 2011

Cook to the “Talent Management Perspectives&# series featured by Talent Management magazine (March 2011). To receive a free subscription to TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazine, please click here. * * * How do you prepare an organization, its leaders, the employees and the transported [.].

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Andrea Kates (akates@BusinessGenome.com) is the founder of the Business Genome® project and author of the visionary bestselling business innovation book, Find Your Next (McGraw-Hill, November 2011).

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MAY 16, 2011

Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People Brian Tracy AMACOM (2011) “Why are some companies more successful and more profitable than others?&# It is at least theoretically possible for an organization to have full engagement of its workforce and that any one of those involved is always fully engaged. That [.].

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Taylor for BNET (January 4, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. Here is an article written by William C. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Ever since the publication, nearly two decades ago, of [.].

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JULY 20, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mel Stark and Mark Royal for Talent Management magazine (5/10/2011). To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * Experts from Hay Group, which partnered with [.].

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done Peter Bregman Business Plus/Hatchette Book Group (2011) Do you need a FIND ME button for your life? Look no further. I have been following Peter Bregman’s HBR blog posts for several years and consider him one of the most thoughtful and most [.].

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The Coming Jobs War: What Every Leader Must Know About the Future of Job Creation Jim Clifton Gallup Press (2011) How and why entrepreneurs can – indeed must – win America’s “next everything war” The war to which the title of this book refers will never be declared officially but I am convinced that it [.].

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Frank Princeton University Press (2011) How and why “departures from rational choice” (with and without regret) have occurred and what to do about them Frankly, I expected this book to be about (for me, at least) incomprehensible economics and dull. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good Robert H.

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JANUARY 29, 2012

Roadmap to Revenue: How to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy Kristin Zhivago Bristol & Shipley (2011) How to determine what, when, and how prospective buyers wish to make a purchase In a sales environment in which consumers now have much more information — and thus have much more control – during the [.].

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tom Friedman and featured in the November 20, 2011, issue of The New York Times. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * In recent years, we’ve been treated to reams of op-ed articles about how we need better teachers in our public [.].

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APRIL 9, 2011

Hallowell explains in his most recent book, Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People, published by Harvard Business Review Press (2011), “Many people need help in getting rid of the obstacles in their way. As Edward M. In the workplace, this is the challenge that managers face: to help people overcome [.].

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AUGUST 3, 2011

As One: Individual Action and Collective Power Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley Portfolio/Penguin (2011) How and why “As One behavior” can accomplish almost anything There is so much to be said about what this book offers. Where to begin? Perhaps my purposes are best served by providing a series of five key points: 1. Mehrdad [.].

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MARCH 28, 2011

Stewart for BNET (March 22, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. Here is an excerpt from article written by Thomas A. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. To read the complete article, please click here. * * [.].

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Innovator’s Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth Michael Raynor Crown Business (2011) How and why disruption “provides an explanation of creative creation Frankly, I was unable to fully understand (much less appreciate) the significance of what Joseph A.

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