HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

First, good leaders can articulate the need for change because the organization is on the brink of failure- cost reductions, reputational crisis, shift in customers and so on and seek to manage those changes. Kenny Rogers has a line in his song, The Gambler that goes: “ you’ve got to know when to hold em and know when to fold em ”.

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Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52

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. I conducted independent performance reviews of many. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

One of the most recent and most trenchant critiques comes from Roger Martin , dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, in his book Fixing the Game (Harvard Business Review Press 2011). And, of course, Steve Jobs. But this is at it should be.

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Short-term Rogers Long-term Price 14

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. Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life. Most organizations approach innovation as if it were a sideline activity.

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Books Rogers Globalization Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

For years, those of us who study business innovation have been thrilled by the results and influence of Muhammad Yunus , Grameen Bank, and the idea that one powerful way to fight poverty is to make small loans to villagers (mainly women) who have tons of energy but no access to capital. has made the loans much less effective.". He's right.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Rogers Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Unfortunately, the financial services sector hasn''t been doing a very good job in these realms as they lurch from one major financial crisis to another. These institutions are already feeling their license come under threat from increasing regulations as the government attempts to address the causes of the latest crisis.

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Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Flip through issues of Harvard Business Review from the 1950s or 1960s, and you’ll see a steady drumbeat of articles on labor relations. They were afraid to innovate, and they got away from being a real labor movement to being business unions administering contracts. But increasingly unions today understand that and are innovating.

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Globalization CIO Rogers Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

I see, instead of food and education "industries," an obesity epidemic and a debt-driven education crisis. Yesterday, pundits and talking heads believed this crisis was just a garden-variety, workaday crash. See the difference? Opulence is Donald Trump. Eudaimonia is the Declaration of Independence.

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GDP Hamel Industry Construction 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. But haven't we heard this before? Yes, with regard to what the emerging powers are asking for.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

You can change who James Bond is—Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig—without destroying the franchise… Whereas with Rocky, you’re pretty much stuck with Sylvester Stallone.” Servers are a major expenditure, and a faulty server can lead to a crisis.

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