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DECEMBER 15, 2021

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MAY 27, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas John Butman What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential Robert Steven Kaplan The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial […].

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 3, 2020

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past week. This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs: Human connection bolsters the immune system. Typically, as you might have noticed, I tend to cover broad topics.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Marjorie Kaplan, president of the Animal Planet and Science networks, who says true creativity comes from the ability to tolerate [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 19, 2013

Eric Schmidt on "Disruptive technologies" HBR HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing How to Listen When Someone Is Venting John Butman Management Tip of the Day Margaret Heffernan Mark Goulston Mark Kaplan Mason Donovan McKinsey & Company McKinsey Publishing Michael D.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 30, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Tim Harford Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and BetterAdam Pash and Gina Trapani Negotiation Brian Tracy What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Managers as […].

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

In What You''re Really Meant to Do , Robert Kaplan tells the story of a television producer that got passed over for a promotion. You undermine your "ability to exhibit character and leadership traits" that could help your career, says Kaplan. Initially, he took the easy way out. He chose to frame it as a "political" issue.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 10, 2013

Posted in Leadership Development [link] I am so honored to share the screen on Huffington Post Live with Angela Maiers, Saul Kaplan,Robin Chase, Whitney Johnson and Brian Cuban as we discuss Choose2Matter - helping our kids realize how much they have to offer and give to the world. You know how excited I get over up and coming leaders!

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 21, 2013

Bob''s blog entries A brilliant explanation of the ROI of a workplace community within which diversity and inclusion are core values Bibliomotion Challenges to Creating Inclusion Key Elements That Define Insider and Outsider Group Membership Mark Kaplan Mason Donovan original meaning of "barbarian": non-Greek.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders [.]. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2013

Kaplan and Robert B. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March. Fear Your Strengths : What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem by Robert E. Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future by Dorie Clark.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2013

What You''re Really Meant to Do : A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential by Robert Steven Kaplan. Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders : Leadership and Character by Al Gini and Ronald M. Change Intelligence : Use the Power of CQ to Lead Change That Sticks by Barbara Trautlein.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Actually, what we should fear are complacency and self-satisfaction as well as the assumption that “just good enough” really is. As I began to read this book, I was reminded of the title of […].

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

What You Really Need to Lead : The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner by Robert Steven Kaplan. Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer. H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. Always Hustle. by Brad Lomenick.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 29, 2013

What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential Robert Steven Kaplan Harvard Business Review Press (2013) To paraphrase Walt Whitman, “We are large, we contain multitudes.” Many authors […].

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

The difference, says Harvard professor Robert Kaplan, is “how they deal with these periods of confusion and uncertainty. With many down-to-earth examples, Kaplan will expand the range of questions you should be asking yourself. They feel as if they should be somewhere else, doing something else.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. Millions of future business owners feel trapped by those voices-like they are meant for something more but are stuck where they are.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But then as now, there is no greater attribute for a ruler than humility built on an accurate assessment of his own limits, from which the finest cunning emerges.” — Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics. “In

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

. * * * When I started the Corner Office column more than four years and about 250 interviews ago, I set several guidelines for the conversations I would have with top […].

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays pull some of the best together here on my blog. 3 Everyday Leadership Lessons for Managers By: Achim Nowak via Switch & Shift Blog I never watch Anderson Cooper. Within minutes.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Rosebeth Moss Kanter essentially argued this a few months ago in her Harvard Business Review blog. Innovation culture innovation kaplan organizational culture' More and more of my clients are telling me that “we have plenty of ideas, we just can’t get traction with any of them.” They’re stuck.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Third, there are tools that I have found valuable in my work with some of the most successful organisations in the world."

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2011

What to Ask the Person in the Mirror : Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential by Robert Steven Kaplan. Better Under Pressure : How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others by Justin Menkes. From Bud to Boss : Transition to Remarkable Leadership by Kevin Eikenberry and Guy Harris.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Kaplan and David P. In a book published in 1996, The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action, Robert S. Norton developed in much greater depth and detail a concept they introduced previously in an HBR article (January/February, 1992): the balanced scorecard.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2012) The power and value of serendipity on the other side of complexity As I began to read this book, I was reminded of an observation by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “I wouldn’t give a fig for simplicity this side of complexity but [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Kaplan in his recently published book, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential, published by Harvard Business School Press (2011). Here are some invaluable ideas provided by Robert S.

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APRIL 15, 2011

Kaplan and David P. The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment Robert S. Norton Harvard Business Press (2000) The Perilous “Journey&# to Breakthrough Performance Note: This is another “business classic” I read when it was first published and then recently re-read it.

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Balanced Scorecard Norton Kaplan Strategy 89

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 1, 2011

The Prime Solution: Close the Value Gap, Increase Margins, and Win the Complex Sale Jeff Thull Kaplan Publishing (2005) Many of the same core concepts in this book were previously discussed in Thull’s Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes are High! However, what we have here is a much [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 1, 2011

Marketing to Women: How to Understand, Reach, and Increase Your Share of the Largest Market Segment Marti Barletta Kaplan Business (2002) How to Succeed in the World’s Largest Market Segment In this uniquely informative volume, Barletta answers three separate but related questions: “What makes women a worthwhile market?”, “Why market differently (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article written by Robert Steven Kaplan and made available by The McKinsey Quarterly at its website. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sign up for free email alerts, please click here. * * * As executives become more senior, they are less likely to [.].

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

In The Power of Vulnerability , Barry Kaplan and Jeffrey Manchester explain that the secret to unleashing the power of leaders, teams, and organizations, is through vulnerability. H ANG UP THE CAPE. Effectiveness in leadership is not about having all of the answers but not knowing and accessing the power of those you lead.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Today began with a drive East from my home in Connecticut to Saul Kaplan’s wonderful Business Innovation Factory Conference (called “BIF-6″) in Providence, Rhode Island. I understand that some of the BIF-6 sessions will be available online so if and when they are posted I’ll blog the links to some of my favorites.)

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 10, 2018

Cast relates a conversation he had with Stuart Kaplan, the director of leadership recruiting at Google to make this point: As you progress [in your career], your relationship with others is more important than your knowledge of and relationship with data. In short, they lack interpersonal skills.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 1, 2011

PrimeTime Women: How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders Marti Barletta Kaplan Publishing (2006) The nature and extent of a “prime marketing opportunity&# Those who have already read Marti Barletta’s Marketing to Women will welcome this sequel in which she develops in much greater depth her core concepts with regard (..)

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2011

I like the way author and blogger Mary Jo Asmus stated it in a recent blog— “Connect with your heart when your head wants to rule. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. Some executives fail to identify the danger signals because they repress their feelings as if feelings are something to be avoided. and Kaiser, R.B. Developing Versatile Leaders.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 27, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism Robert [.].

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog). Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). “This is a guidebook, with practical business advice, that if followed, will enhance your business and provide solutions to every day small business problems. “I've read and participated in many 'best practice' methodologies over the years.

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