December, 2012

First Friday Book Synopsis

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What is Your Red Ocean Strategy? – (Success in a Crowded Market)

First Friday Book Synopsis

So, this week I presented my synopsis on the terrific book Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. The group was the entire team at a growing firm, one that is vibrant, alive, energetic… The kind of place people like to show [.].

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A Quote for the Day, from Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf

First Friday Book Synopsis

{My blogging will be intermittent for a few days — we will have family with us for the holidays. After yesterday’s ghastly event in Connecticut, I will be glad to see my grown sons and our granddaughters…} So, here’s a quote for the day from Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and [.].

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A Message from Amy Krouse Rosenthal – Please Beckon Lovely

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Amy Krouse Rosenthall was the final speaker at TEDxSMU a couple of weeks ago. She was terrific — warm, gentle, human, caring… She ended with a challenge that from 12/12/12 through 12/21/12 we should all beckon lovely. Beckon lovely is much better than beckoning ugly (as she illustrated it: that’s just “ugh”). Here’s my reminder [.].

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Learn to Be Your Own Debrief Coach – (Consider Elizabeth Spiegel, & Peyton Manning)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Note: this is a post on how to become your own debreif coach. I think it is possibly as important as anything I have written, if you desire to keep getting better at what you do. First, a book excerpt: The ritual for students on the IS 318 team was that, win or lose, after [.

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The Real Test of a Leader – “We Admit, We’ve Been Wrong. We Apologize.”

First Friday Book Synopsis

To our customers,?? At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we can to [.].

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“I Just Wasn’t Ready” – Spielberg on Why It Takes a While to be Ready to Communicate Your Most Important Message(s)

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Here’s what I think. If you prepare a speech/presentation, and what you have to pull from is what you read for that particular speech, you’re not yet ready… The best speakers speak from “overflow.” They have this reservoir of material – books and essays they have read, speeches they have heard, life (with all of [.].

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Narrative; Myth – Why Stories Have to be at the Center of Organizational Culture

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(Bob Morris posted this on his blog this morning, The Dueling Myths of Business, and it kind of prompted the thoughts that follow). ————— Over the past 15 years, I have immersed myself in the literature of building and sustaining a successful business. Certain “lasting truths” have stood out and stood up. Here’s one. At the [.].

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