First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 28, 2011

The CEO’s Strategy Handbook: How to create, sustain and accelerate profitable growth Stuart Cross Global Professional Publishing (2011) How to manage strategy effectively and on a continuous basis In fact, everyone in a given enterprise (including but not limited to C-level executives) should be actively engaged in effective management of strategy.

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Handbook Strategy Review Books 80

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 19, 2014

With more than 150,000 copies sold, “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning,” Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith’s classic guide to successfully combining these two interrelated roles has proven to be deeply influential among professionals in virtually every industry and leadership role.

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Mentor Govindarajan Management Handbook 127

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Join us in this cover story celebration of Liz Ryan, a change driver of the decade, as she unveils the secrets to creating workplaces where authenticity, trust, and innovation thrive. It doesn’t work well for hiring managers, candidates, agency recruiters or the HR and TA people who administer the recruiting engine.

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Ryan Handbook Letter Competitive Advantage 59

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Earlier this year brought the book, Create The Future: Tactics For Disruptive Thinking , by J eremy Gutsche , CEO of Trend Hunter. Gutsche shares that, Create The Future , "is a book about Disruptive Thinking, so it makes sense that it shouldn't follow conventional norms. It's the ideal guide to turn your big idea into a reality.

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How To Handbook Tactics Open-book 65

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

Blue Ocean Strategy 220

Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 220

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2012

Last week my wife and I went to see the historian David McCullough speak about his new book The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. This summer I’ll be reading The Greater Journey and another of McCullough’s books, The Great Bridge. If you’ve not already picked up books for summer reading, I encourage you to check out these titles.

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Conference Handbook Rogers Media 246

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Managers at all levels, and business owners, seek answers to the following important questions: What's changing in the workplace and the workforce today? How should I set and manage expectations? Managed correctly, conflict can be a positive source for innovation and creativity. Are the right issues being addressed?

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Handbook eBook Resources Policies 70

Strategy Driven

MAY 9, 2019

What you might not know, however, is that other such instances of lightning strikes of inspiration are documented throughout the history books and span well into the present day. Chris Griffiths, author of The Creative Thinking Handbook: Your Step-By-Step Guide To Problem Solving In Business, is founder and CEO of OpenGenius.

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Handbook Creativity Innovation Document 107

Lead Change Blog

JULY 9, 2019

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Ready to Book a Motivational Speaker? Joel advises: “Booking the right professional keynote speaker will make all the difference in your event, and in your company. Laura Schroeder of Working Girl contributed Alchemy: The Secret to Leading Innovative Teams.

Leadership Development 224

Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 224

Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

I am very pleased to let you all know that my new book, Double the Love: 11 Secrets for Cultivating Highly Accountable and Engaged Teams , is available on Amazon.com. The e-book format will be on amazon within a week. The book features a model that I have been using with leaders and groups for several years.

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Books Chief Technology Officer Chief Executive Officer Open-book 63

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Managers and co-workers. HR must give the new employee a copy of the employee handbook and answer any queries that they may have. Show the new employee the meeting rooms and explain the process of booking them. Work Environment. Job Description . Benefits and its Eligibility. Company culture. Company background .

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Productivity Products Guidelines Compliance 81

Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In a truly innovative move, the new management team rewrote the employee handbook giving the green light to profanity and dirty jokes “because a loose, fun, nonlinear atmosphere is important to the creative process. What are the best and worst examples you’ve ever seen of a leader managing the impact of his or her footprint?

How To 169

How To Handbook Executive Coaching Case Study 169

Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

I am very pleased to let you all know that my new book, Double the Love: 11 Secrets for Cultivating Highly Accountable and Engaged Teams , is available on Amazon.com. The e-book format will be on amazon within a week. The book features a model that I have been using with leaders and groups for several years.

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Books Chief Technology Officer Chief Executive Officer Open-book 40

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Discipline I.

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System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. Discipline I.

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System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 17, 2010

Cultures that have these values exhibit superior strategic alignment, employee engagement, productivity, innovation and overall performance. Here’s a list of the values and their definitions: From Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification By Christopher Peterson and Martin E. why is everyone smiling?

Self-aware 278

Self-aware Teamwork Open-book Emotional Intelligence 278

Ron Edmondson

MAY 3, 2013

Brad recently released The Catalyst Leader , a book only he could write. Regardless of your time in ministry, this will be a helpful book. Recently I asked Brad four questions about the book: What is the Catalyst Leader about? Why write this book now? Catalyst is lead by an impressive guy.

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Handbook Influence Sharpe Books 42

QAspire

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Between these two extremes, there are people who stick to their primary pursuit but still manage to go wherever their energy takes them. That is where ideas overlap and innovation happens. There are people who stick to their primary pursuits for long and then there are those whose energy keeps changing direction.

Learning-by-Doing 70

Learning-by-Doing Energy Handbook Library 70

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Sadly, it didn’t take very long to realize that the plant had a very traditional management style, very traditionally combative labor/management relations, and a typical blame-and-shame, command-and-control environment that made people miserable and didn’t deliver quality to the customer or any of the right business results.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Hess Learn or Die is a book everyone who is serious about learning and growth—personally or organizationally—should read. Baldoni also provides an appendix that works as a handbook to guide you in this. Blog Post ).

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

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 Bill Lee.

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Books Handbook Rogers Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Over the past year we have been writing the HBR Leader’s Handbook — a primer for aspiring leaders who want to take their careers to the next level. Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. Focus on measurable results.

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Skills McKinsey COO Handbook 13

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

John Hunter , from Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog , says “ One item I think every leader should have in their IDP is to continue to improve coaching their staff. One book, I would have anyone who worked for me read is the Leader''s Handbook. I raise these and other questions in my blog post, Get Your Reality Checked.”.

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Leadership Development Development Planning Self-aware 283

HR Digest

APRIL 16, 2020

Whether you want to stay up-to-date on HR news, read in-depth HR articles, or find new ideas on strategy, innovation, and leadership, The HR Digest Magazine is here to suit your needs and help you stay more informed. The HR manual is like an employee policy handbook and aims at describing workplace practices and compliances.

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How To Policies Compliance Document 69

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

The reality is that while your company may manage diversity, it probably doesn''t hold anyone accountable for whether your applicants and employees are treated fairly and without regard to gender, race, and ethnicity in hiring and promotion decisions. How does your company innovate and achieve revenue or productivity gains?

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Diversity Human Resources Benchmarking Handbook 8

Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 6, 2012

” which also is the title of a chapter I wrote for ASTD’s The Management Development Handbook: Innovations for Today’s Managers (edited by the talented and charismatic Lisa Haneberg). Kevin Eikenberry, Alfredo Castro and I will join Lisa in a panel discussion at the conference and a book signing.

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Article Media Creativity Handbook 170

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Many of the things we need to know to be successful – to innovate, collaborate, solve problems, and identify new opportunities – aren’t learned simply through schooling, training, or personal experience. As a manager for Bain & Co. billion per year from employees failing to share knowledge effectively.

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Company Licensing Knowledge Management Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

It’s time for companies to embrace their rebel talent as a way to foster innovation, employee engagement, and change from within. Making the idea community property will improve it as more people will be bringing fresh perspectives to it, and you can avoid the backlash that can sometimes occur when you challenge management orthodoxy.

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Handbook Construction Bottom-up Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders.

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Leadership Insurance Learning-by-Doing Emotional Intelligence 10