You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Of course, the prospect of firing someone was a very unpleasant and scary one. Of course I had to do it again. Many years ago I had to terminate a young woman’s employment. She was not performing well and it seemed that she, and the job to which she was assigned, simply did not fit. I liked the woman.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Managing and Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan → September 6, 2010 · 12:55 am ↓ Jump to Comments Taking Inventory & A Model For Making It Meaningful Labour Day weekend always feels to me like a harbinger of renewal. There are of course a myriad of possible questions that I have not come up with here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Those three activities ( detailed in an article Gilbert co-authored in December's Harvard Business Review based on his experience transforming Desert News and Deseret Digital, Utah-based media organizations) don't happen accidentally. For Gilbert, that meant attracting people who had worked at pure-play Internet companies like Yahoo!,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. Innosight director Clark Gilbert's doctoral research on this topic (with a particular focus on the newspaper industry's response to disruptive change), is a very worthwhile read on this topic. This is hard stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Our colleague Clark Gilbert described more than a decade ago a great irony of disruption. Gilbert’s research showed how executives who perceive threats are rigid in response; those who see opportunities are expansive. What new opportunities does the disruption open up? Approach new growth with appropriate humility.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

All things being equal, of course, you'd rather have a skilled entrepreneur than an unskilled one. There is lots of work to be done, of course. Innovation is, of course, an intensely human behavior. I argued in that post that the increasing ease of innovation meant that entrepreneurs were destined to become commodities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

In a recent study conducted by Marina Milyavskaya and her colleagues, college students were asked to report three goals they intended to accomplish throughout the course of the semester. The writer Elizabeth Gilbert rightly expresses this concern in her inspiring TED talk. Inspiration facilitates progress toward goals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2011

Psychologist Dan Gilbert and his colleagues have done work exploring how people's lives are affected by negative events. The specter of failure looms large when there is potential risk in a particular course of action. People shy away from opportunities that might go wrong for fear that they will regret failing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

We often find it when we experience nature, art, or entertainment, and, of course, when we fall in love. And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time. What is your secret letter?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. Sometimes rising (or even flat) revenue and profits are good things, of course. newspaper industry. The sentiment in the room was clearly triumphant.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The other main contenders seemed to be Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein, Stanford economics professor John Taylor, and of course Columbia Business School dean (and economics professor) Glenn Hubbard, whose students made an awesome viral video about his purported disappointment at being passed over.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan. But of course, that depends a lot on what a person’s job is. Teach a course at a university or local college. Spend a day with a millennial in your company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

But, of course, it was possible. Harvard happiness researcher Daniel Gilbert has shown that children don’t increase parents’ short-term happiness ; in fact, on a day-to-day basis, parents prefer almost anything (from watching television to exercising) to spending time with their kids. Partly, of course, this anxiety is exaggerated.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Except funding, of course. The young staff certainly seemed to be enjoying itself in the lounge that was well-stocked with booze and snacks. "So, So, what does your corporate parent give you?" Absolutely nothing," the leader replied without some degree of pride. Otherwise, they completely leave me alone.".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

Cities live or die as economic entities, and Detroit''s economy of course grew up around its automotive entrepreneurs. The downtown Detroit boomlet is to a remarkable extent the work of one wealthy risk-taker, Quicken Loans chairman and co-founder Dan Gilbert. It has also been uniquely dysfunctional. Entrepreneurs. million square feet.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Of course, for most traditional publishing incumbents, “great” is not the word that springs to mind. There’s a reason Innosight Advisor Clark Gilbert, who demonstrated the value of this approach as he transformed the Deseret News and Digital Media, calls this the toughest problem in business today.

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