Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 24, 2016

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers. In his latest book, Under New Management , David Burkus challenges a number of conventional business practices. Under New Management is well worth reading. Under New Management is well worth reading.

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Performance Review Management Review Rogers 150

Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company. Among other things, this presentation is a good option for those seeking an example that provides historical business results of an organization practicing Deming management methods. by Will Rogers, or somebody else. Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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Deming Company Management Conference 53

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

Leading change well requires managing arational factors. Cliques, friendship groups, or conversely animosities affect the functioning of sub-systems in the company – group dynamics play a massive role in whether your change plan is successful or not. It first appeared in his book, “Managing Change … and making it stick!”.

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Rogers Creativity Planning System 243

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 22, 2014

” - Will Rogers. John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog shares that joy in work encompasses fun—that it is fun to take pride in what you do and help others. If so you are in good company with almost every leader. Our August Festival is all about Humor in the Workplace. Humor and Leadership.

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P&L Leadership Rogers McCarthy 498

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). Career Management. The book is organized around 10 topics.

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Advice Quinn Schein Resistance 266

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is also developing a software company building diagnostic competency for […].

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Levitt Kotter Christensen Rogers 99

Leading Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

O FTENTIMES managers and executives push for organizational change and growth, yet their businesses continue to suffer from profit loss, lack of productivity, a decline in employee morale, and frustration. Managers sending the wrong message? Employees do care about the bottom line, and managers are correct in their message.

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Bottom-up Rogers Creativity Guidelines 172

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’

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Long-term Short-term Metrics Rogers 221

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. In hiring talent at any level, especially senior managers and executives, this ‘fit’ is critical. Who wouldn’t like to be more fulfilled? A good test of this is to ask about priorities.

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Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Every person in the company matters to its success. She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. John Wayne and Roy Rogers had Gabby Hayes. Therefore, our loyalty to the company rises, and we are more productive. Further, they transform the company to greater plateaus.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

HR Digest

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to data from Layoffs.fyi, which tracks layoffs from companies using data compiled from public reports, there have been more than 45,000 tech layoffs in November 2022 alone. The dot-com bust of 2001 and 2002 isn’t exactly shrouded in secrecy, as many of the companies that failed back then weren’t “real” companies.

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Advertising Rogers Finance Engineering 52

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Too often companies and their senior leaders get bogged down with a small aspect of strategy, losing the forest for the trees. Lafley, former CEO of Proctor & Gamble, and Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, to write Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. That confusion is what led A.G.

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Strategy Rogers Document Reference 146

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 220

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 15, 2013

How to Create a Business Culture That Will Ignite Passion, Engagement, and Innovation Nan Russell True Alignment: Linking Company Culture with Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results Edgar Papke Happiness: A New Perspective James Hadley […].

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Blog Christensen Rogers McKinsey 75

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2013

It takes the “suggestion box” management approach of the 1970s and ’80s and turns it upside down. Before any decision can be made on any company matter, the decision-maker must seek advice. I observed that Japanese companies tended to emphasize the group and consensus, while American culture pushed rugged individualism.

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Advice Rogers Consensus Education 251

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 1, 2023

As one of the first Rhodes Scholars to complete graduate work in Women’s Studies, Hunter Arscott has been named by Thinkers50 as “one of the top management thinkers likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.” This is even more true for women! Check your “Outlook equity.”

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Career Open-book Books Rogers 99

leaderCommunicator

MARCH 28, 2014

5 Ways to Keep Email From Taking Over Your Life By Cathie Ericson, Fast Company “Do you feel like you spend half your day processing emails instead of actually working? They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network. Marsha Egan, CEO of InboxDetox.com…”. They should drive it…”.

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Rogers Guidelines Sports Tips 132

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The more common case, however, is that someone (the coach, general manager, or owner) plays a strong role in consciously and consistently putting together the right players, coaches, and front office that form a cohesive, effective unit. In recent memory, the New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers, San Antonio Spurs, and St.

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Team Rogers Diversity Franchising 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2013

Tellis HBR How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture? Your Survival Instinct Is Killing Youin the 21st Century'

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Govindarajan Blog Rogers McKinsey 80

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Karin Hurt of Let’s Grow Leaders provided How to Be a More Courageous Manager. ” Discover Roger on Twitter at @DoctorDuncan. Neal suggests: “How reactive or proactive you are as a leader makes a significant difference as to how successful your company is. Find him on Twitter at @greatleadership.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 241

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 11, 2012

Rogers , "to thrive in our digital age, businesses need to reimagine our customers: not as a mass of isolated individual actors but as networks --with each customer as a node linking and dynamically interacting with each other and with us." What new skills and capacities do we need to foster? According to author David L.

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Rogers Public Relations Open-book Case Study 74

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 11, 2011

” – Roger Allen A favorite pastime of those in the older generations is to lament the decline among the younger generations. In the eyes of their managers, peers, and direct reports, the Gen Y group is highly focused on obtaining results for the organization. The following is a guest post by Jack Zenger. In case you?re

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Rogers Teamwork Comparison Participative 223

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

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.

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Rogers Short-term Sports Long-term 101

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Today, I’d like to talk about staffing our organizations to meet the demands of growth and turnover–or simply, talent management. An organization’s growth in this decade and beyond will be determined by how its leaders respond to the challenges associated with talent management. Think about it.

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Resources Talent Management Rogers Constraint 52

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

Deming Institute

MARCH 23, 2017

Dr. Deming would come and talk to top management and come and listen to the workers. Dr. Deming’s willingness to criticize senior executives directly, even at huge companies (GM, Ford…), is well known. Edwards Deming drive to improve not just management but people’s lives. That is what he did. Edwards Deming.

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Deming Rogers Conference Blog 31

Lead on Purpose

JULY 24, 2009

Bob Seelert , chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi , launched an internal program called “Breakfast with Bob&# where he had breakfast with nearly every employee in the company (400 people), seven at a time. — The Product Management Perspective: The specific duties of product managers may vary from one company to the next.

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Rogers Taylorism Taylor Ethics 118

Lead on Purpose

JULY 14, 2009

Travel budgets are typically flush with cash, optimism abounds and your desire to discuss company direction is high. However, in difficult times one of the first things to drop off in many companies is customer interaction. Regardless of how well your company is doing, you need to communicate with customers.

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Travel Budgeting Rogers Taylorism 100

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.

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Rogers Short-term Sports Long-term 60

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2011

And high unemployment combined with the current economic malaise has forced many companies to cut back on middle-managers and travel. Can you develop people remotely? New technologies are being created at a rapidly increasing pace. All of this creates a toxic environment for leadership development. Mentoring is difficult [.].

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Leadership Development Development Middle Management Leadership 278

Deming Institute

MARCH 25, 2019

Per Carl Rogers, that which most personal is most universal”. Deming used to have a very simple way of saying this…our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Quote from Dr. Deming on the back jacket of first printing of The Fifth Discipline; “Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people.

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Senge Education Deming Industry 63

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Rogers Leadership Newsletter Strategic Planning 50

In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 20, 2011

You may want to call yourselves ” Twain, Rogers, Sawyer and Finn, Inc.”…. When you stop rededicating yourselves every day to the idea that better advertising is what the Leo Burnett Company is about. I suppose that is the difference between joining a company well established and being the establisher! Leadership.

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Advertising Human Resources Brand Rogers 155

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

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. In harsh economic times, the gut reaction of many companies is one of prudence and cost control: to take short-term actions that reassure shareholders and citizens. sascom Magazine.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology, suggests using activity-based management techniques to recognize which business activities and which customers are causing a drain on your bottom line.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66