First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Management Tips from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) 150 “tips”…almost unlimited “icebergs” Here are 150 “Management Tips of the Day” that have been featured by the Harvard Business Review blog ([link] On average, each has a total word count of about 50 and is best viewed as a reminder rather [.].

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Making Decisions to Make You Most Productive by Kevin Eikenberry on December 20, 2010 in Decision Making , Leadership , Learning Decisiveness is an important skill. Reviewing your goals and whys (regularly).

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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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Jason Womack

AUGUST 2, 2011

One client I worked with recently realized she was spending 10-15 minutes a day reviewing her "Sent Items" in her email looking for items that she had to follow up on. For 5 days, we tried an experiment: - 3 days (Mon/Weds/Fri) she set a timer for 10 minutes and reviewed her Sent Items (as per her normal). Hers.verbs!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 22, 2011

Taking the Performance Review Process from Painful to Productive. Learn how automated solutions can help HR professionals in small to mid-sized companies streamline the review process. Click here for more information on Taking the Performance Review Process from Painful to Productive. by SuccessFactors.

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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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2011

Take the Small Business Performance Review Process from Painful to Productive by SuccessFactors Learn the “insider’s secret” of automating goal-setting and performance reviews to drive and sustain productivity and engagement. It doesn’t have to be this way. Publications are entirely FREE to those who qualify.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer #QUALITYtweet – Video Review Simon Young at iJump reviews my book “#QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project” and other books in Thinkaha Series. Same holds true for your review processes. You can also watch this video at iJump TV website.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 18, 2012

McDonald Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why organizational success with social media “is fundamentally a leadership and management challenge” I agree with Anthony Bradley and Mark McDonald that leaders [.]. Bradley and Mark P.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 13, 2011

Yes, You Can Make Performance Reviews Worthwhile … and less odious for all parties. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rick Wartzman for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine’s “The Drucker Difference&# series (April 8, 2011). The key is to concentrate first and foremost on employees’ strengths.

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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

APRIL 18, 2012

McDonald Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why organizational success with social media “is fundamentally a leadership and management challenge” I agree with Anthony Bradley and Mark McDonald that leaders [.]. Bradley and Mark P.

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QAspire

JULY 25, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect A few weeks back, my friend Becky Robinson at Mountain State University gifted me with a copy of John C. Have a good productive weekend! Tags: Book review , communication lessons , John C. Have a GREAT week ahead!

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Jason Womack

AUGUST 3, 2011

What is productivity? One of my mentors long ago said the ultimate in productivity is what's called "Self Management." If 20 of you leave a comment, I will choose ONE person at random to send a "Productivity Pack" to for FREE! That is, what IS a productive day to YOU? Thank you, everyone, for making today possible.

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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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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.

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Management Excellence

MARCH 4, 2011

This week's selections feature content on reinventing management, the strategic and practical implications of upgrade plans for consumer electronics products and some guidance on improving our decision-making by better utilizing outside advisors.

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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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Tim Milburn

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Home About SPEAKING RESOURCES Archives CONTACT Book Review: Acting Up Brings Everyone Down 0 Comments I first heard of Nick McCormick when he sent me a copy of his first book, Lead Well and Prosper. One Less Option New Word: Critischism Choosing Three Words for 2011 You can subscribe to the RSS feed of timmilburn.com by clicking here.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Brand New Resources for New and Longtime Leaders by Kevin Eikenberry on October 18, 2010 in Leadership , Learning In early 2011 my next book, co-authored with Guy Harris, will be published. Register now!

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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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Jason Womack

AUGUST 14, 2011

I started off by sharing my perspective of the productive process, and what you can do to improve workplace performance habits and practices. Among some of the things we talked about was this "four-phase" approach to productivity: 1. Identify: 2. experiment: 4: Assess: Again, we start by identifying something as possible.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 19, 2011

Stelzner John Wiley & Sons (2011) If your product, service, project, or business were a rocket…. Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition Michael A. Where to begin?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Within the context of business, mindfulness offers simple – but extremely effective – ways for leaders and their teams to increase productivity. In today’s fast-paced, high-pressure marketplace, leaders are continually looking for ways to improve productivity both for themselves and their teams. The Bottom Line. All rights reserved.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. Jeff is Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University and Wharton.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 3, 2012

Of course, in order for us to truly reap the benefits of this exercise, we need to review the events of the previous year; of taking note of what we endured, learned and gained from those past experiences which can serve as the foundation that we build upon as we move forward. What Has 2011 Taught You About Business and Leadership?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 25, 2011

Eat People…and Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs Andy Kessler Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2011) How and why “Free Radicals” create wealth for themselves and meanwhile improve the world Initially, I was somewhat put off by this book’s title but it certainly caught my attention and thus served its purpose in that respect.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 2, 2011

In many cases, organizations fail to understand or recognize the detrimental effect their “do more with less” approach has on employees’ productivity and rising frustration levels. How can leaders create a more enabling environment to increase productivity? A lack of support creates significant productivity issues.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 21, 2013

1) Productivity rises: Gallup performed a meta-analysis across 199 studies covering 152 organizations, 44 industries, and 26 countries – which was featured on the Harvard Business Review blog – and found that general productivity was 18% higher at companies where employees were more engaged than not.

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The Recovering Engineer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The book is scheduled for release in January of 2011. Here are the links one more time: How to Make a Smooth and Rapid Transition to Leadership Secrets to Make Your Next Performance Review Meeting Productive, Powerful, and Painless If you liked this post, please tweet it, like it, share it, or leave a comment.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 4, 2012

As a result, Campbell’s experienced not only improved productivity and profitability under his stewardship, but the company also received numerous awards recognizing the organization as one of the best places to work.

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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. Servant Leadership Review: Battle Los Angeles Movie.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 21, 2014

In the course of reviewing this material, you may recognize yourself. If I were to give you a productivity enhancement tool that would help you save some time and that would definitely increase your efficiency, would your ears perk up? Here is the productivity enhancement tool – REDUCE THAT NUMBER! You may say, “That’s me!”

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 27, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

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? How can you communicate more effectively and efficiently in 2011? What can you do differently in 2011 to make faster and more reliable decisions? Do you stand by what you say?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 16, 2011

Reinventing the Wheel: The Science of Creating Lifetime Customers Chris Zane Ben Bella Books (2011) How to establish and then sustain long-term (if not lifetime) customer relationships What we have in this book is a personal account by the founder and CEO of Zane’s Cycles. It began when Chris Zane was 12 and repairing bikes [.].

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