Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Managers can learn to be more strategic through understanding, exposure and challenge. Do whatever you can to explain not only the vision and the direction, but why those decisions are being made. (This doesn’t mean that tactical behaviors aren’t important, but they don’t differentiate the highly effective leaders from everyone else.).

Management 479

Management How To Game Theory Tactics 479

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

How do those without extensive training in statistics equip themselves with the skills necessary to thrive (or even just survive) in our age of “big data”? What kind of education do I have to go back and make sure that I have? What do I study? How much education do I need? So it’s by experience.

Mentor 16

Mentor Career Uncertainty Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In other words, Tirole does what modern academic economists do, only better than almost anyone else. He then usually brings in the tools of game theory, in which his protagonists have to contend with other rational actors and the moves they might make. What are the aspects that distill the situation down to its very essence?’”.

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The unsolvable problem that has become the "white whale" of my career's own captain story was posed by Nick Donofrio, IBM's senior vice president of technology (and official protector of innovators) a year before I wrote "Breaking Out." How do you know what to share, and what not to share, before you share?" Unsolvable problem.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Open-book Innovation Disruptive Innovation 8