Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 16, 2014

People who inspire us lift us up, creating openings for our hearts to swell and our brains to find the creative juice to become inspiring. Some might say she’d try anything, but I would say that she chooses her creative ventures carefully, and they’ve served her business well.

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Rogers Creativity Globalization Review 230

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett Columbia Business School Publishing (2013) Here’s a blueprint “for deploying design thinking across levels and functions in order to embed a more creative approach to problem solving as a strategic capability in Organizations” Here’s (..)

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Christensen Rogers Review Magazine 98

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Ed Catmull writes in Creativity, Inc. Random acts are in play constantly, yet these same destructive forces own creative possibilities. ” Accepting losses and missteps as inevitable opens time for managers to plan restoration and even unexpected improvements. Every night I both lost and learned.

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Insurance Rogers Engineering Middle Management 150

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture. it wasn’t fun.

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CEO Company Rogers Human Resources 242

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 20, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Lessons from the Sandbox: Rediscovering the Keys to Business Success Alan Gregerman Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto Michael C.

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Blog Christensen Rogers McKinsey 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "5 Insanely Simple Work-Life Balance Shortcuts From People Who ''Have it all''" "Don’t Sandwich Negative Feedback" "How to Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics" "How to Tell Your Company’s Story" "Lessons From Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg On How To Succeed In Business By Really Trying" "The Most Popular Articles (..)

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Govindarajan Blog Rogers McKinsey 80

Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2012

lead:ology - Leaders vs Managers: A False Dichotomy. Jim_Kouzes: People are most likely to be creative when intrinsically motivated say Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer. Robert Fry , Chairman at McKinney Rogers in London wrote in a letter to the Financial Times , that “to be average. 8 Ways to Find Freedom ".

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Quinn White Paper Rogers Learning-by-Doing 260

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. John Wayne and Roy Rogers had Gabby Hayes. There were friendly, familiar places such as Cheers bar, Arnold’s Drive-In on “Happy Days,” the Krusty Krab on “SpongeBob Square Pants,” Dale’s Diner on “The Roy Rogers Show” and other homey places.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2013

Guest post from Dennis Bakke: I believe the vast majority of people are creative, trustworthy, and capable of making meaningful decisions at work. It takes the “suggestion box” management approach of the 1970s and ’80s and turns it upside down. My new book, The Decision Maker , is a clarion call for bosses to STOP making decisions.

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Advice Rogers Consensus Education 251

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. Ideas make a difference.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 220

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Al is one of the most creative entrepreneurs I know. One of the most effective ways to get creative is to interact with people from varying backgrounds who have a variety of interests. To stimulate your creativity, it is important to tap into groups of people with whom you usually don’t interact. Al loves my party.

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Strategy Creativity Rogers Entrepreneur 57

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. John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Comments shared Shared Principles for Managing People Engaged in Diverse Tasks. .” Here are 9 from leadership coach Dan McCarthy.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 241

LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture. it wasn’t fun.

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Rogers Short-term Sports Long-term 101

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Getting to Yes : Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury About the Reference Getting to Yes : Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury recognizes that professionals are in a frequent state of negotiation and provides them with the tools needed to achieve a desirable outcome.

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Resources Rogers Competitive Advantage Reference 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

CEOs in a recent poll agreed that creativity is the most important skill a leader can have. Every leader is hoping for that next great idea, yet many executives still treat creative thinking as antithetical to productivity and control. One manages for creativity.” Related Video.

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Creativity How To Brainstorming Video 12

LDRLB

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture.

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Rogers Short-term Sports Long-term 60

In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 20, 2011

You may want to call yourselves ” Twain, Rogers, Sawyer and Finn, Inc.”…. When you start believing that, in the interest of efficiency, a creative spirit and the urge to create can be delegated and administrated, and forget that they can only be nurtured, stimulated, and inspired. About John. October 25, 2011 at 8:46 pm.

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Advertising Human Resources Brand Rogers 155

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds. – -Will Rogers.

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Succession How To Gilbert Learning-by-Doing 164

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Artists and scientists throughout history have remarked on the bliss that accompanies a sudden creative insight. More poetically, Virginia Woolf once observed, “Odd how the creative power brings the whole universe at once to order.” ” But what about before such moments of creative insight?

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Creativity Motivation Environment Video 8

QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2010

On 11th Jan 2010, Harvard Business Review’s blog featured a post titled “ Why Good Spreadsheets Make Bad Strategies ” by Roger Martin. Quality and Quantity – The Conversation Continues Other Links to this Post QAspire Blog - Quality, Management, Leadership & Life! with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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Quality Compliance Metrics Blog 117

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

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

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 20, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS A Technique for Producing Ideas: The Simple, Five-Step Formula Anyone Can Use to Be More Creative in Business and in Life! James Webb Young HBR Guide to Better Business Writing Bryan A. Garner Know What You [.].

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Blog Creativity Review Books 89

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. 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.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

When human learning slows down, people tend to lose creative and problem solving capacity. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. These are just a few examples.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

CO2

JULY 11, 2012

I had to get creative. Gary, a manufacturing manager, complained that staff don’t give an inch. by Roger Rankin | Submitted Jun 05, 2012. : When the economy took a turn for the worst, I was only two years into owning my own painting business that was passed down to me from my father in law. Fifth Place: TONE TO DISAGREE.

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Real Estate Learning-by-Doing Rogers Taylorism 74

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 28, 2011

Six Thinking Hats, Second Edition Edward De Bono Back Bay Books (1999) Note: When preparing for some interviews, I recently re-read several books on the creative process and remain convinced that all are still among the best. Case in point…. Pass the Idea I presume to suggest that you read this book before you read [.].

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Books Review Creativity Process 75

LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

She was looking at these leaders, these middle managers in large companies that were in stagnant industries, but these managers were still able to have double-digit annual growth even though their industries were stagnating. As things change now towards more innovation focus, these tools translate well for managers.

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Innovation Tools Open-book Learning-by-Doing 104

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

In season three of Mad Men , Sterling Coopers rainmakers — including Don Draper and Roger Sterling — are planning to leave the ad agency and to take as many clients as possible with them. A paper reporting on that research , co-authored by Johann Peter Murmann, is forthcoming in Strategic Management Journal.

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Cooper Rogers Advertising Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management , though it’s more accurate to call it Digital Restrictions Management—because DRM restricts what people can do with their digital stuff. We are told that digital locks and DRM protect creative content and the creative-types who make it. And the list goes on.

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Download Rogers eBook Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

Giving performance feedback is one of the most common ways managers help their subordinates learn and improve. Listening as an avenue for self-change was advocated by the psychologist Carl Rogers in a classic 1952 HBR paper. Harry Haysom/Getty Images. What Makes Listening Powerful?

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Power Self-aware Rogers Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Lafley, Roger L. Lafley and Roger Martin — get to the heart of strategy, explaining what it's for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. But managing and communicating with people from other cultures is an essential skill today. Strategy is not complex. But it is hard.

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Books Rogers Globalization Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it. But it doesn’t have much of a future.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Roger Schwarz. Y Combinator founder Paul Graham famously wrote about the “manager’s schedule” — a tightly packed succession of meetings — versus the “maker’s schedule,” which allows for large blocks of unstructured creative time. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting.

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Entrepreneur Rogers Travel Active Listening 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Needs to Make More Jobs More Creative. Roger Martin. Big Data's Management Revolution. Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young. Anne Kreamer. How to (Finally) Quit Your Job. Daniel Gulati. The Robots Coming for Your Job. Andy McAfee. We Contemplated Winning and Losing. Ten Reasons Winners Keep Winning, Aside from Skill.

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Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? Coming something of a full circle, Intuit has famously instituted a process to teach everyone to think as creatively as the talented professionals of Pixar, Dior, and IDEO. This astonished Catmull.

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Process Innovation Brainstorming Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

They celebrate that which is uniquely human – meaning and creativity – and that which, in my humble opinion, should be the primary business of humans in the first place. This allows them to exercise the value that emerges from collaborating with other humans on open-ended , creative endeavors.

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Drucker Technology Efficiency Rogers 8