First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard [.].

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Blog Creativity Review Innovation 89

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. ” Will Rogers. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Quotes on community stewardship, leadership and related topics. Strategic planning, how-to instructions.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 50

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

When human learning slows down, people tend to lose creative and problem solving capacity. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Innovation Leadership Strategy' No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Consider, first, rampant excesses in a most unlikely part of the financial scene — the market for microcredits to the world's poorest people. Can you distinguish between genuine creativity and mindless imitation? Which raises the biggest question of them all: Why do so many smart people keep doing so many dumb things?

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Rogers Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Soon consumers will be able to: (1) control the flow and use of personal data, (2) build their own loyalty programs, (3) dictate their own terms of service, and (4) tell whole markets what they want, how they want it, where and when they should be able to get it, and how much it should cost. Conversation-powered leadership.

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Books Handbook Rogers Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program. Weatherhead, Jr.

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Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

There are three key ingredients in developing deep leadership roots. Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Care for the industry, the product and the process (a defined Vision). Core Values: Ethics.

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Long-term Budgeting Quality Consultative 56

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

There are three key ingredients in developing deep leadership roots. Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Executive-Leadership Abilities. The base waters and feeds every part of the tree.

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Long-term Benchmarking Quality Process 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. As a result, a new era is emerging.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 13