Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the book, you'll explore how leaders, at every level, can build a workplace culture that drives organizational excellence and unleashes the full potential of every employee. The Art of Clear Thinking is a book that will change how you interact with the world around you. Change is not the exception, it’s the rule.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Simone Biles , the famous and beloved gymnast, responded with sarcasm at the blatant vetting failure by USA Gymnastics: Recreation of Simone Biles Retweet of Mary Bono’s Nike Attack. After Simone Biles shared her dismay at this decision, Mary Bono deleted the original tweet and offered a lackluster apology.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2014

NOTE: I am aware that I have done a very poor job with these posts, especially concerning my views about advances in technology. Those posts were highly misaligned with the books we have presented about technology, so I will not write about that subject anymore. However, I will share some thoughts about some of the […].

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Women on Business

JULY 18, 2011

That is what I am doing with Pattie Simone. In 2008 she did the keynote address at Think Tech about how consumers were using the new platforms in technology and she knew it was time to grow womencentric to the next level. When I talked with Pattie I knew I had met someone who belongs in my book “GUTSY: How Women Leaders Make Change”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2018

Guest post from Glain Roberts-McCabe: This year, I published my first book. When I was trying to think of a book title, I reached out to our community of ambitious leaders for advice. We’ve sped up technology and innovation but remain trapped in models, processes and working norms that were built in the early twentieth century.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2021

Ron Friedman’s first book, The Best Place to Work , is one that I often refer to as a definitive guide to creating a winning work environment. Most of us grew up with two basic stories about how top performers like Simone Biles, Jerry Seinfeld, and Steve Jobs achieve at the highest levels. That’s precisely why I wrote this book!

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Mark Sanborn

MAY 11, 2021

The exponential growth of technology has impacted every aspect of how we live and do business. We define platform as the technology you use. Years later, Simon Sinek wrote his bestselling book, Start with Why. Your future is more digital than it ever was. One big example: virtual presentations. 1 Platform.

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Tony Mayo

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

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?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

In the case of Enron, Sherron Watkins signaled to Ken Lay, the chairman of the organization, that something was wrong with the company’s partnerships and the way they were kept off the books. Simon Cooper, president and CEO of Ritz-Carlton, calls this “scriptless service”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2018

After the publication of their first book, Extreme Ownership , many people latched on to the aggressive implications of the word “extreme” and missed the more nuanced balance that a leader must have. This Is Day One : A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters by Drew Dudley (Hachette Books, 2018) This is Day One is about choosing to lead.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The following is a guest piece by cognitive scientist and author Dr. Carmen Simon. I’ve been intrigued by these questions and wrote the book “ Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content To Influence Decisions ” out of necessity. Dr. Carmen Simon is a published author, cognitive psychologist, and co-founder of Rexi-Media.

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Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 22, 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? More on Gandhi here.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Kind regards, Ian 22 March Dear all, First, some breaking news: the winner of CMI's Management Book of the Year 2022 competition is… The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical Solutions by Simon Fanshawe ( Kogan Page ).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you? Is it because of WHAT you do or is it because of WHY you do it?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In his book Start with Why?, Simon Sinek challenges what and how thinking. And because technology now enables work to be a thing you do rather than a place you go, the opportunity to identify and develop unique career pathways is greater than ever! Your ‘Why’ Should Not Be Because You Hate Commuting.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

leadership #EI #HR #coaching #focus #mindfulness 59 45,200 769 64,900 Daniel Pink Personal Development Author of 5 books. Author of twelve books. 2 43,900 26,300 471 Ken Blanchard Leadership Speaker, Leadership/Business Guru, and Author of over 50 books, including The One Minute Manager. Father of 3 kids. Husband of 1 wife.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Rafael Aguayo, Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. Edwards Deming, The New Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1994, p. Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Simon & Schuster, 2007, p. References.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

“I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO. Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. But, with his company recently sold, Simon was considering retirement. Many teach and some even write books. Two thirds serve on public boards. I have rebooted myself.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Sure, human beings, with “their limited computational abilities and their incomplete information,” as the great social scientist Herbert Simon put it , need to rely on the mental shortcuts and rules of thumb known as heuristics. Customers Decision making Information & technology'

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Hanna Rosin writes in her book “ The End of Men and the Rise of Women ” that women are no longer just catching up to men. Her response: a complete reinvention of her business, a new name, new technology and a reconfigured role ?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

As you’d expect from a self-confessed presentation geek, the walls of my study are lined with a multitude of books dedicated to the topic of presenting. Interactive Presenting – Technology Friend or Foe? Technology is your friend. Increasingly, I’ve been using a blend of technologies to engage online audiences.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

There are few things ever dreamed of, smoked or injected that have as addictive an effect on our brains as technology," writes Stanford psychologist Kelly McGonigal in her terrific book The Willpower Instinct. Or, as Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon put it way back in 1978: "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

Technology is meant to serve us. More and more, we're turning over this precious resource to our digital technology, allowing it to define the depth and span of our attention, and to seduce us into operating at such high speeds that we don't notice the insidious toll that's taking. Those are the qualities we ought to be cultivating.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 3, 2021

Having worked in global teams for decades, I enjoyed seeing these practical skills and strategies outlined in the book How to Communicate Effectively with Anyone, Anywhere. More details about the book and its unique AR feature can be found here. More details about the book and its unique AR feature can be found here.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

When one of us interviewed young leaders for a book , two of the top three reasons they sought particular jobs were “intellectual challenge” and “opportunity to impact the world;” and other studies have consistently highlighted the increasing focus younger workers in particular place on purpose in the workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Jim Collins and I studied this question in our book Great by Choice in which we analyzed CEOs and companies that led successfully in such a world. As I write in my book Collaboration , several barriers get in the way of effective information sharing. How do you lead in a world full of crises, shocks, terror and disruptions?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Technology, for example, has gotten way out ahead of our ability to manage it skillfully. As the polymath Herbert Simon put it so presciently way back in 1978, "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.". The ironic result is that, while the world keeps changing, we don't.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Simons—after all, he’s been around for decades, earning and donating vast amounts of money, generally enjoying life (despite the accidental deaths of two of his five adult children), and giving Dos Equis’s “ most interesting man in the world ” a serious run for his money. Forbes My family is obsessed with books and puzzles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

” In his book, Start with Why , Simon Sinek says that purpose should provide direction when deciding a company’s future: “Instead of asking, ‘WHAT should we do to compete?’

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Kotter’s book Accelerate.). The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Simon Sinek has a great TED Talk about hiring people because they believe what you believe, not because they have the particular skill you think you need right now. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 9, 2019

As Simon Sinek wrote about in his book Leaders Eat Last , Bob Chapman, the CEO of Barry Wehmiller, decided on furloughs for his employees. I believe most people spend 90% of their time distracted either by obsessive use of technology or by their own thinking (or both). The third obstacle is somewhat related to being busy.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In an era of technological advancement, it is crucial to question who benefits from these innovations. This inquiry is particularly relevant in the context of automation and artificial intelligence (AI), according to renowned economists Professor Simon Johnson and Professor Daron Acemoglu from MIT.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. In this book, Kanter shows how people everywhere can unleash their creativity and entrepreneurial adroitness to mobilize partners across challenging cultural, social, and political situations and innovate for a brighter future.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The business and civilian adoption of military technology is nothing new; we had mass adoption of the wristwatch after World War I when soldiers began attaching their pocket watches to their wrists for more practical purposes. Increasingly, the stuff we see in science fiction and comic books, becomes a business reality.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

But a single miscalculated remark can cascade into an avalanche of disapproval, a phenomenon Jon Ronson explores his new book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. The energy, finance, and technology sectors tend to tweet using a male-biased tone of voice. The algorithm is able to infer gender based on language.

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