First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 22, 2011

Chan John Wiley & Sons (2010) A chorus of eloquent voices that suggest “a sense of what life is, can be, or should be” Prior to reading this book, I had already read two biographies of Warren Buffett, Roger Lowenstein’s Buffett: [.].

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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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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 305

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.". The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist. During his ten year tenure as GE's CEO during the 80s, Smith made breathtaking strategic and operating blunders.

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CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Goals could include discovering the next great drug, having a large loving family, becoming a vice president, achieving financial security, having great friendships, finding a life partner, and yes, even becoming a CEO. is CEO of Metrus Group. Talent fit is also important. Here is where fulfillment becomes important. About the Author.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. 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.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 315

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has faced intense criticism for asking his baristas to engage customers in a discussion about race in America. But this kind of “CEO activism” is actually a step forward for corporate involvement in the public square. But CEO activism is a different animal.

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CEO Policies Politics Rogers 8

Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

Am I saying that we should not aspired to be CEOs? Is the paradox of abundance operating in the background of your life? The concept of a fully functioning person from, On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers. Bigger is better, more is more. Not at all. I have been thinking about this a lot lately and know it is so for me.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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Human Resources Chief Operating Officer Ulrich Operations 15

Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. Instead, we’ve looked for a new scapegoat, chosen to operate from the same fundamental theories, and doubled down on the same fixes."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” We believe the answer is yes. Truly, business interests and societal interests can be one and the same.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises. Roger Schwarz. The company recently took a hit on the stock market. You and Your Team Series.

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Long-term Short-term Strategy Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure." Heineman, Jr.

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Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Rich Horwath, CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, found in his research that 44% of managers spent most of their time firefighting in cultures that rewarded reactivity and discouraged thoughtfulness. Having risen through the supply chain ranks, she spent most of her time reacting to operational missteps and customer complaints.

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Supply Chain Chief Operating Officer Execution Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

But in order to realize this future, we need to learn and employ the lessons from the architectural evolution of the internet, facilitating openness and distributed operations rather than the closed proprietary systems of individual manufacturers and service providers. So that’s what Eric Schmidt did. In essence, he learned how to manage it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

“We were Abelson-Frankel, yet operated as two separate agencies.” But according to research one of us (Julia) conducted for her book Pivot Points , the key differentiator between the career arc of someone who becomes a successful business leader and the average person is consistency in how the person makes major decisions.

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Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In a knowledge economy, top-down direction is particularly detrimental because employees are bound to know more than their supervisors do about the specialized fields in which they operate. They may also know more about the customer—his needs and desires. Knowledge workers have to manage themselves,” Drucker advised.

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

As the CEO or manager, demonstrate through your questions, actions, and policies, that you understand the interests of your staff and/or team members and that their interests are reflected in the way you make decisions. 5) Operational Transparency -. To create trust you must give trust. Transparency is organizational honesty.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. Social media evangelists tell CEOs they need to stop focusing so much on driving sales and “connect instead of promote.” Size and speed.

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Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] bosxs Thanks for this [link] CEO Success…It’s not Random | N2 Growth Blog [.] Business Acumen: Great CEOs have a deep understanding of the business and a strong orientation toward profit. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

In their book in Getting to Yes , Harvard negotiators Roger Fisher and William Ury define an interest as a broad desire that a person or group of people have for something. Although the brothers were effectively the CEO, COO, and CFO, they wouldn’t talk to one another for months after a fight, not even on business matters.

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CFO Positioning COO Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Your job as manager is to ensure that team members are “providing regular constructive feedback,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “You want to give everyone the opportunity to say his piece,” she says. Set expectations early. Case study #2: Focus on empowering your team.

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Team How To Case Study Open-book 11

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

That’s why CEOs of many organizations established executive teams – a group of senior leaders who work together to define goals and ensure everyone keeps them in mind. David Silverman: Shared consciousness is the single most important capability for organizations operating in complex environments.

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Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

For example, imagine that the CEO’s chosen strategy is to differentiate on the basis of superior “fit and finish,” e.g., the flawlessness and detail-orientation of her products. That would only be a valid argument if the CEO’s choices were truly unconstrained. Insight center. Where will we play? How will we win?

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Execution CEO Strategy Definition 8

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. Everything operated as its own unit. Clodfelter continues: “ It is hard to be at rest when the CEO could walk by at any moment, shoot you an email, or ask you a question.” . He made it a goal to provide life preparation for students to take their place in society after graduation.

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Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

” The key to successfully dealing with interrupters is to quash your frustration and instead “operate from a mindset of curiosity,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. . “This is a basic instinct and you will always have a flash of annoyance.”

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How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

But in the business world, their precise equivalents are standard operating procedure. CEOs routinely go to the microphones to apologize or make excuses for missing the analysts' consensus earnings estimates — even if their real results are substantially up. It is time business learned a few things from football.

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CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

When Roger Enrico took the helm as CEO of Frito-Lay, in 1991, the company was developing an innovative and distinctive approach to direct-store delivery that would allow it to consistently deliver the right products to the right stores at the right time. They cut costs to grow stronger.

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Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

In the real world of quarterly numbers, though, embracing failure mostly remains a throwaway line in CEO speeches. It’s a membership organization created to serve more than 350 independently owned and operated stations, each with its own board of directors, objectives, agendas and strategies. The results?

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Team Metrics KPI Rogers 13

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Transformative change requires an organization to change not only how it operates but, even more importantly, how people think. Kenny Rogers has a line in his song, The Gambler that goes: “ you’ve got to know when to hold em and know when to fold em ”. However, a few days later, the CEO called and apologized for our experience.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

And fans have shown up at games waving signs aimed at the players (“ Protest on your own time, not on my dime “) and the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell (“ Goodell stand up for the anthem ”). This force was the uniquely talented individual, without whom business could not operate.

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