Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

One of my favorite change quotes comes from a book by Michael Fullan, a Canadian expert on educational change, who wrote in Leading in a Culture of Change [2001]: “Change is a double-edged sword. While many of us know change is typically rapid and non-linear, less often is depicted its exciting potential for creative, innovative solutions.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Those things that make life special — spend time with friends and family, read a good book, watch a fun video, catch that movie you’ve been wanting to see. To help you relax, I’ve linked to some of my favorite books, videos, and music I’ve experienced this year. The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 30, 2013

Connection Cultures are required to maximize innovation, employee engagement and productivity, a case we made in our book Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity. Some years ago I gave a presentation on Connection Cultures at the Innovation Council.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 19, 2013

The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet Ramez Naam University Press of New England (2013) How and why “the infinite power of ideas” can help the human race to manage finite natural resources I agree with Ramez Naam that “the choices societies make affect their rate of innovation.”

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. For those of you that have read Out of the Crisis, Deming asks in that book: Need any country be poor?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 16, 2017

In fact, I contend, almost every innovation or breakthrough comes because of a constraint, forcing you to think in different ways. With her big sisters’ help, she found a $5 book on how to make balloon animals, bought the air pump and the balloons on a loan from mom, and set up her stand. Time to re-frame. Listen to their story.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 17, 2012

Roger Martin calls it the responsibility virus and it always begins with the germ of fear. Martin explains that, “Take-charge leadership is the stuff of Hollywood and history books, deeply ingrained in our consciousness.” This vacillation between over- and under-responsibility is an endless loop.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The Five Rules Every New CEO Should Follow by Roger Martin. How Leadership Can Make or Break Classroom Innovation from @MindShiftkqed. 7 Unconventional Reasons Why You Absolutely Should Be Reading Books. Which Comes First: Organizational Values or Personal Values? by Jon Mertz.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 2, 2013

What happens if our efforts to solve a problem aren’t producing innovative results? Why is it so difficult to achieve innovative breakthroughs in thinking? In both books, the authors describe the technique of using the non-dominant hand as the pathway to specifically activate the right hemisphere of the brain. Sound bizarre?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Stuart and Des are the authors of more than 15 books available in 20 languages.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). The book is organized around 10 topics. Here is a sample from each: Meaning and Purpose.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

Innovation and creativity are supplanted by overhead creep, loss of productivity, and poor business decisions. Provide a process for employee-owned, sound and innovative business decisions that are tied to sustainable growth and profit. Agility and flexibility are replaced by process and a mind-numbing disconnect from business goals.

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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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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 4, 2012

By enabling the nearly costless distribution of perfect copies of music, books, and movies, digital technologies intensified a behavioral enigma that always lay at the heart of copyright law. Source: Roger Parloff , senior editor, FORTUNE, July 23, 2012. These works are what economists call public goods.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win Steven Gary Blank Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21st [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 20, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Lessons from the Sandbox: Rediscovering the Keys to Business Success Alan Gregerman Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto Michael C.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A.G.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 11, 2012

Rogers , "to thrive in our digital age, businesses need to reimagine our customers: not as a mass of isolated individual actors but as networks --with each customer as a node linking and dynamically interacting with each other and with us." What new skills and capacities do we need to foster? According to author David L.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 15, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Trust, Inc.:

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 31, 2010

Filed under: Leadership , Knowledge , Learning , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | learn , opportunity , value , Mark Sanborn , design « Five championship strategies Book Review: Here Comes Everybody » Like Be the first to like this post.

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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! Take a few minutes and learn about Leadership Lessons from McKinsey.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2020

I wrote my dissertation and all of my books at that table! When I was writing my second book, Leading on the Creative Edge , I would write from 6:30 to 9:00 a.m. I was also mentally “done” with the book for the day. As a matter of fact, my first book, Why didn’t I think of that?, Finding your creative time.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Rogers , "to thrive in our digital age, businesses need to reimagine our customers: not as a mass of isolated individual actors but as networks --with each customer as a node linking and dynamically interacting with each other and with us." What new skills and capacities do we need to foster? According to author David L.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. 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. DAVID: Yeah.

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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.&# I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. 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. Focus on value creation.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool. It is as comprehensive for leadership traits as I’ve seen in many other assessments.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Jumping the S-Curve: How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top, and Stay There Paul Nunes and Tim Breene Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How companies can reach progressively high levels of achievement The title of this book refers to pattern of consistently elevating (“jumping”) a company to progressively high levels of achievement.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

The Batten Institute has been tasked with helping Darden become a thought leader in innovation entrepreneurship. I support that role by supporting our professors, doing research, and conducting our own research into practical questions around innovation. DAVID: This has nothing to do with the book. ” ANDREW: It is great.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 12, 2011

Chesbrough is Adjunct Professor, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Executive Director of its Center for Open Innovation. His landmark book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (2003) articulated a new paradigm for industrial research and development.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 20, 2009

2 Responses Chelsea , on August 24, 2009 at 6:59 am said: what a sweet story, You must be very proud:-) X C Reply Stewart Rogers , on September 6, 2009 at 4:53 pm said: Not sure what to say, but this made me smile. Congratulations to your family.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 25, 2011

Roger Babson # smbiz #sales #. Innovation # ff @ LDguyMN @TanveerNaseer @ tnvora @workengagemen… (cont) [link] #. RT @ MarkOrlan : Coffee House Book Review – “Wikibrands” by Sean Moffitt and Mike Dover [link] ~@TanveerNaseer #. RT @ ronkarr : It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Thanks Mark!

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 16, 2009

One Response Stewart Rogers , on May 19, 2009 at 6:44 pm said: Also worth noting that the player that takes the most shots is not always the most successful. Take inventory of the opportunities you have, decide which ones make sense, and take the shot. But sometimes they are.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard [.].

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 24, 2009

Reply Stewart Rogers , on July 31, 2009 at 5:15 am said: From a product management perspective (as leaders), maybe something important does happen in the office. Filed under: Leadership , Trust Tagged: | Bob Seelert , expertise , role , success « The right people Leaders’ focus » Like Be the first to like this post.

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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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