First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 30, 2012

Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work Michael Michalko New World Library (2011) How and why conceptual blending of dissimilar subjects, ideas, and concepts is the most important factor in creative thinking Those who have read any of Michael Michalko’s previously published books, notably Cracking Creativity and Thinkertoys, already (..)

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Creativity Library Books Review 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 3, 2012

A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis suggest in Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, leaders [.]. Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Better yet, for those of you bold enough to place yourself under what might be the harsh scrutiny of others, you can get the benefits of a mini leadeship 360 review by asking your co-workers to rate you as a leader. It is as comprehensive for leadership traits as I’ve seen in many other assessments. Thank you for sharing this freely.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 343

QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2010

On 11th Jan 2010, Harvard Business Review’s blog featured a post titled “ Why Good Spreadsheets Make Bad Strategies ” by Roger Martin. It is almost easy to figure out “What” and “How” of processes once you have addressed “Why”. The ideas presented in the post complements my views.

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Quality Compliance Metrics Blog 117

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes." We sat down with Rotman Dean Roger Martin, author of Fixing the Game , to talk about the skewed incentives of CEO compensation. Well, a girl can dream.). Video interview. What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL. Interactive infographic.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. Share an ah-ha moment, an experience, a process, but share…This post can be a game changer to many people if those who read it are willing to share their collective wisdom.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 360

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

3 steps to building virtue into your organization: Introducing and executing this commitment to virtue requires you to adopt a consistent, three-stage process of, 1) establishing standards, 2) reviewing standards, and 3) making adjustments accordingly. Review how well your organization lives up to the established principles.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

One of the most recent and most trenchant critiques comes from Roger Martin , dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, in his book Fixing the Game (Harvard Business Review Press 2011). But this is at it should be.

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Short-term Rogers Long-term Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. Twelve-year-old Roger Ruiz was expelled from his public school in rural Nicaragua. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Consider an example drawn from government elections: in 2011, Neil Malhotra found (with coauthors Melissa Michelson, Todd Rogers, and Ali Adam Valenzuela) that even a well-chosen cold-text — that is, a message sent to people who had not requested to be texted — increased voter turnout in the California elections.

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Letter Reference Rogers Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

The report came from a task force led by Rotman School of Management Dean and HBR contributor Roger Martin. On June 1st, Canada's Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity released a new, large report on Canada's Innovation Imperative. It paints a worrying picture of Canadian innovation.

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Innovation Porter Rogers Human Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2015

As of 2011, only 26% of teens were employed. The article was co-authored with Roger Johnson, who holds a PhD in microbiology from Columbia University, and is former Assistant Professor at UMass Medical School. The abysmal job market for teens is forcing many of them to think differently about work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

As Roger Addison, a performance consultant, told me, "HR doesn't think like the business. Being Inbred : HR hires HR experience, and HR has historically been mainly engaged in personnel, compliance, and transactions. HR professionals without operational experience have less credibility and aren't comfortable giving operational advice.

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Human Resources Chief Operating Officer Ulrich Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Research I conducted with Professor Yvonne Rogers and Dr. Ana Moutinho from University College London and with the English National Opera, suggests that AR apps could offer innovative support to cultural institutions as well. And Google Sky Map can help you identify stars and planets if you just point your phone camera view toward the sky.

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Not surprisingly, as Jean Rogers, the Executive Director of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), points out in a Greenbiz blog , "It''s no surprise that banks and financial sectors are the institutions least trusted by U.S. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin of the Rotman School, design thinking has three major stages. During early 2011, Shuttleworth’s team interacted with customers of two of the key products to understand their needs. Related Video. The Explainer: Design Thinking. Popularized by David M.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. As Roger Martin argued in his book Fixing the Game , stock prices are all about (often incorrect) expectations of future earnings. At 74% of the 1,471 companies that have voted so far in 2013, according to Equilar''s say-on-pay tracker , the "yes" percentage exceeded 90%.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively Roger Fulton’s book, Common Sense Management , offers these quick tips for how to be an effective leader: • Don’t Blame Others – When in a position of power, everything that occurs is your responsibility, even the errors.

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