Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Their new book is BULLETPROOF PROBLEM SOLVING: The One Skill That Changes Everything. New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 81

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

This isn’t rocket science, rather it’s just plain-old, good leadership. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. It is actually the fiduciary obligation of a CEO to make the needed changes to protect shareholder value.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 305

Tony Mayo

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? Resistance is futile.

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Mayo Executive Coaching Gordon Newsletter 113

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership. Understanding and respecting other’s perceptions is such a critical part of being an effective leader that absent this ability I truly believe you cannot be effective in a leadership role.

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Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

I later read that Gordon Moore had said that was as likely to be adhered to as the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. (As As usual, and luckily for Stanford, Gordon was right.). Plus he had already contributed to the business literature with his best-selling book High Output Management (1983).

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EVA Case Study Class Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Our brick institutions have in no way caught up with what today’s technologies make possible in terms of virtual learning and individualized, customized instruction. The Carnegie Foundation’s findings resulted in a thick book called The Education of American Businessmen , also published in 1959.

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Education Drucker Globalization Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Business education today is anachronistic – it has in no way caught up with what today’s communications technologies make possible in terms of individualized instruction and virtual learning. The Carnegie Foundation’s findings resulted in a thick book called The Education of American Businessmen , also published in 1959.

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Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership.

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8