LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Companies short on momentum have a heck of a time finding it, and those who enjoy momentum can ride the big surf for extended periods of time. Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. Business isn’t all that different. Let me tell you.

Rogers 101

Rogers Short-term Sports Long-term 101

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 418

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Section III: Strategy. Section VI: Persuasiveness. Section IX: Team Building.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Companies short on momentum have a heck of a time finding it, and those who enjoy momentum can ride the big surf for extended periods of time. Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. Business isn’t all that different.

Rogers 60

Rogers Short-term Sports Long-term 60

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2010

On 11th Jan 2010, Harvard Business Review’s blog featured a post titled “ Why Good Spreadsheets Make Bad Strategies ” by Roger Martin. Adding up sales won’t tell us what kind of a company we really have. It is almost easy to figure out “What” and “How” of processes once you have addressed “Why”. Don’t Kill It!

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Quality Compliance Metrics Blog 117

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. Case in point, like I joked about earlier, you ruined Everett Rogers’ model of diffusion innovation for me.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” – Will Rogers. As you learn, keep asking yourself “What are the implications for my career, my industry and my life?” You need to know the truth about how customers feel about your service, or why your company has difficulty with vendors. Leaders think for themselves.

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Learning-by-Doing Drucker Levitt Education 72

Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Having graduated from the management school of “initiation by fire” myself, I’d never really heard of coaching until I joined a leadership consulting/training firm in the late 90’s. I ended up taking a coaching program through The Coaches Training Institute because I thought it might make me a better “manager as coach”. Happy leading!

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Rogers Blog Learning-by-Doing Training 31

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Otherwise positive and productive team members begin to dread coming to work, and the group's best thinking gets siphoned off the company's mission as everyone scrambles to stay out of the bully's crosshairs. The question on the tip of everyone's tongue when this type of nightmare takes hold is, "Why doesn't senior management do something?"

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.” It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In the torrent of commentary following Steve Jobs' death, few have noted that his career and his company say something profound in the endless debate about the purpose of the corporation. Martin's manifesto is: "We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value.

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Short-term Rogers Long-term Price 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

There is little I see about the practice of risk management today that is particularly helpful. In many companies, the approach seems to be a combination of formalized risk tracking and cultural engineering. In my experience, neither contributes positively to managing risk. Roger Martin's forthcoming book with A.G.

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Risk Management Rogers Learning-by-Doing Document 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. In doing so, he discovered major flaws in the company that called for radical change. Others believe that leaders are born, not made.

Open-book 8

Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In his book Collision of Wills , University of Chicago sociology professor Roger V. A parallel occurs in the business world when two managers allow their rivalry to escalate into public, tooth-and-claw conflict. This is especially true at work, where status hinges upon our unique experience and competencies.

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Self-aware Restructuring Rogers Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

That’s why change management efforts commonly fail. To make change really happen, it doesn’t need to be managed, but empowered. Yet Semmelweis and Antioco had not only authority, but also had the facts on their side and were willing to risk their careers. Change management Getting buy-in Leadership'

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Leadership Early Adopters Video Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

Yet in talent development practice, companies spend millions of dollars and countless hours every year on self-reported assessments that only target self-knowledge. To illustrate, we recently collected data from an executive development program at a Fortune 10 company. And what we found was striking.

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Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Business Simulation Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

One day, at a particularly unproductive meeting, Harry exploded: “No one appreciates all the sacrifices I’ve made for this company. They articulated how much they felt Harry had sacrificed for the company, for them. Managing people' Of course, this is not rocket science, but there is sound theory that supports it.

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Rogers Sharpe Open-book Banking 12

Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It was Will Rogers who famously observed that “common sense ain’t all that common.”. For the past 40 years I’ve consulted and coached leaders from the factory floor to the boardroom in some of the world’s best companies in multiple industries. Senators, and headed worldwide communications at Campbell Soup Company.

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Morale Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Ethics 116

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

Sonnenberg, who serves on several boards and consults for companies you would know and respect, writes about issues important to your success. Duncan: In one of your essays titled “You Get What You Expect” you write about Roger Bannister, the great runner who proved that a four-minute mile is possible. Nothing syrupy here.

Advice 81

Advice Learning-by-Doing Blog Morale 81

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. This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Any company or organization is like a tree. They came from training, team building and people management perspectives.

Business Development 51

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. 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.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. Rather than using pithy labels like “Career Service” or “Employment”, we write initial summary statements like “Students write resumes in order to find jobs.”

Process 8

Process Productivity Products Participative 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. This holds true for any company, institution and for any person. Any company or organization is like a tree. Your company will. by Hank Moore. You should.

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Long-term Budgeting Quality Consultative 56

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

CO2

JULY 11, 2012

Not only did that give me a career, it gave me the confidence after a violent marriage. I used social media to market my business along with local coupon companies that offered online coupons for short periods of time. Gary, a manufacturing manager, complained that staff don’t give an inch. 733 # Votes. I had to get creative.

Real Estate 74

Real Estate Learning-by-Doing Rogers Taylorism 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Founders bet years of their lives on finding product market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company’s prospects. If an individual can gain a predictive edge, so can a company. But our approach to prediction seems stuck in the past.

Company 8

Company Participative Training Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

Sexual harassment scandals at companies such as Uber and Fox News have been a reminder not only that sexual harassment is still a regrettably routine feature of working life but also that even some of the most powerful perpetrators can, eventually, be held accountable. The company subsequently fired over 20 employees.

Rogers 10

Rogers Safe Harbor Document Report 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

First, as a raft of studies has shown, harassment flourishes in workplaces where men dominate in management and women have little power. Male-dominated management teams have been found to tolerate, sanction, or even expect sexualized treatment of workers, which can lead to a culture of complicity. Beginning in the 1970s, when U.S.

Report 8

Report Training System Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

A few years back, writing about a team that was dominating a different kind of football , the magazine claimed that FC Barcelona, the renowned soccer club, “has provided a distinctive solution to some of the most contentious problems in management theory.” What sane company would take that approach? ” Wow!

Sports 8

Sports Teamwork Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

The Cardinals, quarterbacked by an inspired Kurt Warner in the twilight of his illustrious career, mounted a spectacular comeback to go ahead 23-20 on a 64-yard touchdown bomb to Larry Fitzgerald with 2:37 left in the game. The Steelers, led by young star Ben Roethlisberger , leapt out to a 10-0 first-quarter and 20-7 halftime lead.

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CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 14

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. People don’t want to be managed; they want to be led. Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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