First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 14, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding interview featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and conducted by Joanna Barsh.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2012

What Matters Now by Gary Hamel is probably one of the most important books you could read this year. It is an invitation to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, management, institutions, and life at work. What matters now is that managers embrace the responsibilities of stewardship.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2012

What’s disconcerting, though, is how often top management is surprised when “not” happens. Gary Hamel, The Future of Management What limits innovation in established companies isn’t a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but dearth of pro- innovation processes.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource.

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Mentor Advertorial Kotter Hamel 228

CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Lately I have been using a slightly different time management technique which I call the "See Do" method. Where the system has flaws and things required to make it effective: 1 - All other time management systems (including the ones I write about in my time management book ) use a priority system. See a spot, wipe it.

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System Management Hamel Innovation 133

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 27, 2012

Put bluntly, there’s simply no way to build tomorrow’s essential organizational capabilities – resilience, innovation, and employee engagement – [.]. For most of us, weekends provide an opportunity to take a rest from thinking about weekday concerns and consider less urgent – but perhaps much more important – issues.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Strategy guru Gary Hamel wrote in the Harvard Business Review: “Corporations around the world are reaching the limits of incrementalism. ” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation. Authenticity creates trust; trust is a must-have ingredient in the risk-taking recipe required for innovation.

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Six Sigma TQM Airlines Wilde 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The Harvard Business Review 's mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact on a changing world. Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

And my research is essentially about how to help particularly large organizations become better managed, better organized, and more well-equipped for the future. Management still matters significantly. Why does management still matter? My personal crusade here is to bring management back onto an equal putting with leadership.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yves Doz is Professor of Strategic Management and Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation, INSEAD. He started working on innovation and multinationals during his doctoral studies at the Harvard Business School, in the 1970s. Together with C.K. Their book, The Multinational [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

A workshop attendee asked me this seemingly simple question: "So, what else should I read to learn more about innovation?". But in thinking it through, I did eventually end up with a highly personal list I call " The Masters of Innovation " (which appears in my latest book ). To see my selections, click here. So what makes a Master?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. Why does a statement like this produce breakthrough innovation?

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Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is the result of the rapid shifts that have been occurring in the business world over the last few years--the commoditization of goods and services, the individuation of value, the transformation of the workforce--which I discussed in my previous blog post. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation.

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