First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 9, 2013

Employees are an organization’s lifeblood, but recent research suggests that it could become harder for companies everywhere to find skilled workers — and for unskilled workers to find jobs.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2018

For instance, while buyers most want to talk about : What my company is trying to achieve with the purchase The reasons my company needs to make the purchase My company’s overall goals … sellers most want to talk about : Pricing How the product/service works (a product demo) So, if you sell, you need to read this book.

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Ramaswamy Open-book Prahalad Bottom-up 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Large companies have millions of people in the form of suppliers, employees, distributors, customers, customers' customers, and other stakeholders. Individual people populating the company's value chain are emotionally unconnected and unengaged because nobody has set up the process through which they could come together as a community.

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CEO Company Ramaswamy Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

When participants from a high-performing division of a Fortune 100 company were polled during a Thunderbird webinar, fully 60% said their division was successful despite their leaders. And 35% of respondents in a broader study of all high-performing companies said the same thing. How does that happen? FOREVER ENTREPRENEURIAL?

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Ramaswamy IPO Webinar Participative 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Besides, both of these companies are publicly traded, and both are still largely controlled by a small investor group or influential leadership team. Both companies are managed by professionals. The Hermès extended family wishes to continue to control the company. Hermès is led by Patrick Thomas, not a family member.

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Ramaswamy Supply Chain Brand Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Here''s how the "jobs done" segmentation works: Step #1: Identify the contexts in which customers are using the company''s products. In one presentation, we were exuberant about Big Data and Little Data, and in the next, speaking what seemed to be 1960''s voodoo psychographic language.

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Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK/CD REVIEWS Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance Jason Selk The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield Leadership: [.].

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