Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

” — Oscar Wilde. “It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration–nay, it is very easy; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.” . “When we speak evil of others, we generally condemn ourselves.” ” — Unknown.

P&L 165

P&L Construction Sharpe Learning-by-Doing 165

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Many managers of data science teams become managers because they were great individual contributors and not necessarily because they have the skills or training to lead a team. (I Great data scientists have career options and won’t abide bad managers for very long. What does it take to become a great manager?

Team 8

Team Management Diversity Long-term 8

The Practical Leader

JUNE 22, 2011

He began his distinguished psychology career in the late sixties studying pessimism, learned helplessness, and depression. His evidence-based approach clearly sets Flourish apart from most personal growth books puffed up with fluffy theories and wild claims. This is especially evident in Flourish with 50 pages of fine print footnotes.

Review 53

Review Emotional Intelligence Positioning Wilde 53

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It’s your job as a manager to make work meaningful for the members of your team. Have you stopped to consider how they’re finding meaning in their careers? Seeing your work in the wild and powering a business, which is of course a group of people, is very rewarding.” Suparat Malipoom/EyeEm/Getty Images.

Waldroop 8

Waldroop Agility Advertising Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Here's what we believe, surveying the landscape: It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change. But to be fair, Moore made what was seen as his seemingly wild prediction 47 years ago. Obviously, you are going to have to keep doing this for the rest of your career.

Retail 13

Retail Gordon Education Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

He wasn’t where he wanted to be at this point in his career. And while you can’t spend all your time pursuing those objectives, you definitely won’t get there if you don’t spend any of your time pursuing them. I was coaching Sanjay,* a leader in a technology firm who felt stuck and frustrated.

Definition 8

Definition Wilde Planning Productivity 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

These pointers are offered to help manage time and resources. They came out unfulfilled because they didn’t really have clear objectives going in. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away. Wanna-Be Networkers.

Committee 52

Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I don’t know how profound you can say the influence will be,” says Joshua Gans, a professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Business, “but it was at a time where he was a pioneer racing to the fore in terms of thinking about strategy in those sorts of markets.”. Sheesh, when did he do it?”.

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

I argued that such rating systems don’t accomplish the task managers expect from them, which is to accelerate the performance of their people. However, even if these were sufficient goals, managers would still be frustrated by how poorly ratings-based Human Capital Management (HCM) systems achieves them. False Precision.

Management 11

Management System Learning-by-Doing Welch 11