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. I interfaced with many on behalf of corporate clients.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. Share an ah-ha moment, an experience, a process, but share…This post can be a game changer to many people if those who read it are willing to share their collective wisdom.

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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). But this is at it should be.

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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. Check out these new, and forthcoming books from HBR Press: Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. Strategy is not complex. But it is hard.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Did you notice how quickly the Ray Rice story turned into the Roger Goodell story? Sometimes the crisis is months, or even years, in the making – but when it explodes, it does so spectacularly. Crisis management Ethics Leadership' After the video went viral, the world waited for how the National Football League would respond.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure." But he didn''t.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We're confronted by the most ferocious, tenacious crisis in decades — and that's when the Big Kahunas decide to squabble over whose got the biggest biceps? A crisis is exactly when you should expect body-checked jockeying for pole-position to occur, because that's when political power counts most. It's bonkers, right?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

In a memorable, hour-long PBS interview with Charlie Rose during the 2008 crisis, Buffet gave a master class in how the world got into its economic mess and what we can learn from it. But it has also become clear that the rapid growth of microcredit. has made the loans much less effective.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

While it''s tempting to see this shift as the ultimate redemption story, it actually kind of is, but not because Page is suddenly Mr. Rogers. Why Only One Top Banker Went to Jail for the Financial Crisis (The New York Times) Is Your Job at Risk from Robot Labor? In essence, he learned how to manage it. Andy O''Connell.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. He answered by splitting the Bernanke tenure into before the financial crisis and after.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

It was easy for the government to make plans to fix the budget crisis, but it's unclear as to whether its goals were actually within reach. In fact, research by my Harvard colleagues Mike Norton and Todd Rogers indicates that people have an overly optimistic view of the future when it comes to wants and preferences.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Roger Martin recently diagnosed a kind of complexity that is manufactured by us and largely unaddressed: inter-domain complexity. It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play.

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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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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively Roger Fulton’s book, Common Sense Management , offers these quick tips for how to be an effective leader: • Don’t Blame Others – When in a position of power, everything that occurs is your responsibility, even the errors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

As Roger Martin argued in his book Fixing the Game , stock prices are all about (often incorrect) expectations of future earnings. So paying bank CEOs mostly in stock is a recipe for a financial crisis. They''re supposed to represent shareholder interests, so this seems logical.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“The higher you go in an organization, the more you’re expected to make decisions on which you might not have direct experience or expertise,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Family businesses rarely receive much public attention unless they are in crisis. My colleague Suzanne Stroh and I document in our HBS case “Clarks at a Crossroads” how family board chairman Roger Pedder helped rebuild family unity and commitment to the U.K.’s The public loves a good Greek tragedy. But it is possible.

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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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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

And fans have shown up at games waving signs aimed at the players (“ Protest on your own time, not on my dime “) and the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell (“ Goodell stand up for the anthem ”). I am looking forward to seeing Goodell navigate this crisis.

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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. I think a lot of people were surprised that the 2008 financial crisis really didn’t seem to have much of an impact, the way the Great Depression did.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

In the current budget crisis , Republicans and Democrats are the two men in the lifeboat, but they are not truly alone. The Greek debt crisis , with Portugal, Italy, and Spain following close behind, makes the Euro vulnerable and markets unstable. There is still time for a win-win solution to the budget crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

Lafley and Roger L. After the book came out, the financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession made the problem of economic insecurity much, much worse. It's like the flailing companies in Ted Levitt's classic HBR article " Marketing Myopia " that err by thinking their job is to sell a product rather than satisfy a customer need.

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