Leading Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience, many companies view “growth” as increased top-line revenue or sales, additional product lines, or entry into new markets, for example. In order to develop a culture of continuous improvement there are two primary areas of focus: behavioral changes and a clear system to enable ideas for change.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, is the author of several best-selling books including The Innovator’s Dilemma , topped the Thinkers50 list for the second time running – an achievement matched only by management legends Peter Drucker and CK Prahalad. The Thinkers50 book series is now available from McGraw Hill.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 14, 2009

Today’s post is a link to Stewart Rogers ‘ blog the Strategic Product Manager , which contains several great leadership quotes from McKinsey. 2 Responses Stewart Rogers , on August 18, 2009 at 6:40 am said: Thanks for the mention! 2 Responses Stewart Rogers , on August 18, 2009 at 6:40 am said: Thanks for the mention!

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In my new book “ Xbox Revisited: A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal ”, I explore the challenges we faced building the Xbox business and then apply those lessons to our civic organizations. This situation creates Kenny Roger’s proverbial gambling dilemma of “knowing when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em”.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. They understand the need for talent and are effective at recruiting, deployment, development and retention of tier-one talent. If you possess no competency whatsoever give yourself 0 points. Section IV: Tactics. Section IX: Team Building.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes. Thank you for your insight.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# Those who currently lead are aware that our times and this market demands flexibility and quick decision making.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. We’re glad to hear that you thought the article worked as an entire book. LARRY: Sure. Thank you, by the way.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision. Futurism: the foresight to develop hindsight that creates insight into the future.

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Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

It seems like everyone wants to be known as a thought leader, but there are no real criteria for who can stick that label on their marketing materials. He’s written 11 books that have sold more than 5 million copies, and he’s still coming up with fresh ideas and insights on leadership and organizational health.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I have written several books, on business, entertainment, history and pop culture. My four Legends books include “Pop Icons and Business Legends,” “The Classic Television Reference,” “Houston Legends” and “Non-Profit Legends.” There has never been a full-scope book on non-profit service. This series will have three more to come.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 6, 2009

I would review Stewart Roger’s and The Productologist as well as your local product management association. Stewart Rogers recently shared this with me: As someone who has attended four Product Camps, I still get excited for each and every one. There are several good sites that list upcoming Product Camps.

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Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

It seems like everyone wants to be known as a thought leader, but there are no real criteria for who can stick that label on their marketing materials. He’s written 11 books that have sold more than 5 million copies, and he’s still coming up with fresh ideas and insights on leadership and organizational health.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. Reply Stewart Rogers , on June 26, 2009 at 9:54 am said: – I learned we have RULES (1) I bet this was a boy! Reply A new Leadership Development Carnival « Lead on Purpose , on July 7, 2009 at 8:59 am said: [.] Amazing how far that still goes in the world today.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. You need an iPhone to look at existing (potentially competitive) apps so you can better understand your market(s) and write effective requirements that will move your product line in that direction.

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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. I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the kind words Dan, and I hope you enjoy the book. One example from my latest book, Ruthless Focus, is Staples.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Check out these new and forthcoming books from HBR Press: The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge. For the traditional producers of culture — the creators of movies, design, advertising, publishing, magazines, newspapers, and corporate R&D — this book will inspire new innovation and creativity. by Doc Searls.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

In my new book, Power Genes , I explore the link between a person's family history and the power style this person frequently displays on the job. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser. I'm at a loss when it comes to managing Cynthia," Roger confessed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

Initially, these innovations are adopted only by the least demanding industry consumers or those who couldn't afford to participate in existing markets (like the college students who use Reddit to find entertaining Youtube videos instead of paying for HBO). The ecosystem will develop. Bundling good. Internet expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bob Lutz in his recent book Car Guys vs. Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The result, he says, was inferior cars and a decline in the firm. Strategic judgment.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

But remember: the most powerful businesses don't result from careful analysis; they emerge, often unexpectedly, from trial-and-error execution (a point made nicely by Roger Martin in his recent blog post ). Consider a remarkable stream of research that Peter Sims describes in his must-read book, Little Bets. Visit a potential customer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

But according to research one of us (Julia) conducted for her book Pivot Points , the key differentiator between the career arc of someone who becomes a successful business leader and the average person is consistency in how the person makes major decisions. Others believe that leaders are born, not made.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

In it, he interviewed me about my approach to personal development. Last year I read more than 100 books. That’s about two books per week, or one every three or four days. In addition to stacks of books, my reading includes articles, news reports, opinion pieces, and various blog posts. Frank Sonnenberg. Like reading.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It was Will Rogers who famously observed that “common sense ain’t all that common.”. This delightful book includes 51 four-page chapters. This is a book that deserves a place atop your reading stack. Check out Frank’s new book, The Path to a Meaningful Life. In it, he interviewed me about important life lessons.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. Think BlackBerry, for example.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. Business development. Many books have been written on the subject of leadership. Mid-Level Sellers (consumer services, multi-level marketing, retailers, vendors). It’s lonely at the top.

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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

Breaking down silos and decision-making hierarchies, understanding customers better, bringing products to market faster — these are imperatives for many companies today. As anyone who has tried knows, it can be tough to make these changes and — just as important — embed them into the fabric of an organization.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Business development. There are three key ingredients in developing deep leadership roots. The evolution, education, enrichment, professional development, training and life experiences that one amasses. Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. Leadership & Managing People Book. The result was that their ideas were not developed. Adapted from.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

When doing research for our book , we found that the main reasons most companies suffer from this syndrome are that they make across-the-board cuts that are unconnected to their strategy, and fail to make the cuts sustainable. At the same time, Eagle Snacks was gaining market share with innovative new products and its own distribution system.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

And the development leader failed to identify any new ideas for store layout or building features. Each of these executives offered plenty of ideas when the discussion turned to promotions, social media tactics, and marketing messages. They were happy to maintain the age-old silo between marketing and operations. I was stunned.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

Confused as to why P&G has suddenly been deemed a dog by pundits and analysts, while Unilever held up as a poster child, Forbes blogger Steve Denning called up Roger Martin , Dean of the Rotman School of Management. DEAR SIR I AM A NIGERIAN PRINCE. Do Not Use These Phrases in Your Email (ComputerWorldUK). — Tim Sullivan.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: How did your journey in leadership and business development shape your perspective on organizational change over the past decade? The HR Digest: In your book, you discuss unique leadership competencies and how leaders connect employees to customers. In the late 1970s 95% of market value was derived from earnings.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

But here's what I believe it might just be called tomorrow, when the history books have been written, and the debates concluded: a Eudaimonic Revolution. Jane Jacobs , the Galileo of urban economics, whose last book Dark Age Ahead might be said to have been a lament for the loss of eudaimonia, and a warning of the fatality of opulence.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping. Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts, also at last night's event, talked with Rotman Dean Roger Martin about the necessity to have an evolving digital strategy in the face of what she called a "mobile metamorphosis."

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