First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Crisis Communications: The Definitive Guide to Managing the Message James O''Toole Judgment Calls Lao Tzu Lexicon Communications Corp.

Crisis Management 75

Crisis Management Wilde Crisis Drucker 75

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

After all, if workplaces that stigmatize veterans are most definitely bad, workplaces that lionize veterans must surely be much better? One has to wonder just how much of it is due to being frozen out of my traditional forms of employment, however. Overcoming stigma One may assume that the inverse of this situation would be ideal.

Wilde 116

Wilde Stress Engineering Analysis 116

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 22, 2023

Lucius Annaeus Seneca What is the Bodanis definition of fairness? So there’s no need for an unarguable definition of ‘fair’. It had no alliances built on anything more than temporary shared convenience, and its wild furies produced intense resentment – as in the intense partisan and resistance movements all across Europe.

How To 107

How To Open-book Wilde Constraint 107

Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Elinor had a strict definition of what a lady does and does not do. She’d let her emotions run wild and reacted because of them. The more you allow people on your team to grow through small tasks, the more you will enable them to grow as leaders. Elinor: A bow, Fergus? She’s a lady! Merida stormed out.

Leadership 259

Leadership eBook Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 259

Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2013

Those things are the conversations that we still hear after they are over, the partnerships we want to nurture and our individual definitions of success. As entrepreneurs this should be the easiest thing in the world for us to do, after all entrepreneurs are eternal optimists right? Well yes and no.

Entrepreneur 221

Entrepreneur Wilde Maturity Definition 221

Joseph Lalonde

MAY 23, 2016

That book was Wild At Heart by John Eldredge. What we do can inspire others : I’ve already mentioned that John’s book Wild At Heart changed my life. Jon Dale : I was definitely second guessing my decision. M any years ago, my life was touched by a special book. The message pulled at my heart. It pulled at my spirit.

Wilde 125

Wilde McGregor Training Skills 125

Lead by Adventure

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Consider something about the definition of adventure. It doesn’t have to be some wild, cliff-hanging excursion in order to qualify as adventure. This will take a little planning, but definitely worth it. This is definitely something that you can do as a team. Watch the sunrise (or sunset). Take a class/workshop.

Class 100

Class Workshop Definition Wilde 100

Talent Anarchy 1

JULY 18, 2017

Here’s a definition of it from Psychology Today : Groupthink occurs when a group values harmony and coherence over accurate analysis and critical evaluation. A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of hearing Adam Grant speak. For those of you who are unfamiliar with his work, he is a wunderkind. It’s certainly deadly to innovation.

Groupthink 104

Groupthink Organization Wilde Consensus 104

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 2, 2023

In their new research paper, The New Leadership Frontier: Coachability , Joe Folkman, Jack Zenger, and Kevin Wilde found that this question most clearly delineated successful leaders from those heading for a career crash or derailment. Your coachability correlates very strongly with your leadership effectiveness.

Learning-by-Doing 52

Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Report Trends 52

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2013

You also need to be prepared to have your definition change, because as you learn and grow, your expectations will change as well. Different people have different standards of excellence. If you’re serious about pursuing excellence, you must decide what excellence means for your organization. What comes to mind when you think of Starbucks?

Franchising 95

Franchising Wilde Price Marketing Strategy 95

Six Disciplines

MARCH 29, 2013

You also need to be prepared to have your definition change, because as you learn and grow, your expectations will change as well. Different people have different standards of excellence. If you’re serious about pursuing excellence, you must decide what excellence means for your organization. What comes to mind when you think of Starbucks?

Franchising 95

Franchising Wilde Price Marketing Strategy 95

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

If you Google the word leadership you can get about 479,000,000 results, each definition as unique as an individual leader. “My definition of a leader… is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do, or do what they’re too lazy to do, and like it.” ” –Lao Tzu.

Leadership 161

Leadership Definition Follow-up Influence 161

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2015

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.” My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” —Jack Welch. “A A leader is a dealer in hope.” Napoleon Bonaparte. Chinese Proverb. “A

Collins 150

Collins Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 150

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2020

For example, an employee who spends her early career in the straitlaced but excellent Member Support environment of USAA in San Antonio and then moves to Vegas to join the wild-and-woolly world of the Customer Loyalty Team at Zappos is definitely going to need an adjustment period before she feels at home.

Airlines 108

Airlines Mission Statement Customer Loyalty Mayo 108

Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 27, 2009

My favorite definition for patience: the willingness to wait until the best time to take action. He likes nature programs, especially when it's about birds and other animals in the wild. The hard thing about patience is that most of us don't want to wait. We want to say something NOW. We want to do something NOW. We want results NOW.

Wilde 94

Wilde Definition Books 94

CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. A farmer had only one horse. One day, his horse ran away. The man just said, “We’ll see.” The man and his son corralled all 21 horses. All the neighbors came by saying, “Congratulations!

Executive Coaching 87

Executive Coaching Wilde Strategic Planning Taylorism 87

CO2

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses. One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs. A farmer had only one horse. One day, his horse ran away. The man just said, “We’ll see.” The man and his son corralled all 21 horses. All the neighbors came by saying, “Congratulations!

Executive Coaching 87

Executive Coaching Wilde Strategic Planning Taylorism 87

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The Wild West that was the web back in the nineties would be equally wild for advertising. Not to sound alarmist, but if there is not a consistent definition (that includes both the technical format along with the content that is embedded within in), the confusion will cause challenges in the growth of online advertising.

Advertising 8

Advertising Definition Advertorial Media 8

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

And to others, anything social media falls in what they believe is the age of experimentation: the “Wild West” of the Internet. While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over.

Wilde 165

Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

But heroism, by the very definition that came down from the Greeks, is a negotiation between strengths and weaknesses. .” Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on heroic leadership: “We choose leaders abysmally today. We expect perfection, and when we don’t find it we lament the absence of heros.

Wilde 8

Wilde Succession Leadership Delegation 8

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

A pendulum tends to swing too far at first, and pretty soon we were in the second Wild, Wild West. Then in the late ‘90s, early 2000s, we had the tech bubble, and the old business model began to come apart. They were just crazily developing things, business model be damned.

Wilde 243

Wilde Leadership Business Model CEO 243

CO2

JANUARY 5, 2011

Who are your Balcony People? The holiday season inspires deep reflection. These are the people in your lives who are constantly seeing the best in you, listening to you, and supporting you in everything you do. It’s a terrific picture – especially during difficult times.

Executive Coaching 90

Executive Coaching Blog Execution Strategic Planning 90

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. 2] Cawthorne, Tesla vs Edison, pg.

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 12, 2013

He’s definitely a pastor’s pastor. I don’t know him well, but I have had the privilege of being with him numerous times and found him to be genuine and deeply concerned for the well being of anyone who he meets. I debated sharing this story. I don’t want to appear to sensationalize the issue. It was surreal.

Wilde 83

Wilde Edmondson Definition Learning-by-Doing 83

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

For the next five minutes, we talked about the textbook definition. After going through the standard overview, I asked the students what their thoughts were on organization vision statements. I then asked what they really thought about the term “vision.” An effective Statement of Cause isn’t restricted to large organizations.

Motivation 293

Motivation Wilde Bottom-up CEO 293

Roundtable Talk

JANUARY 18, 2011

Definitely trying WAY too hard. Watching it reminded me of the Oscar Wilde quote: be yourself, everyone else is taken. And, being self-deprecating made him look really insecure and uncomfortable (which was evident through the interview as well… every time Oprah said “that’s a great question” he got all excited and cut her off).

How To 41

How To Godin Career Blog 41

Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

The theory of knowledge helps us recognize that someone decides what data to collect and what operational definitions to use. Also, Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge can help us understand and improve the collection and analysis of data.

System 28

System Education Comparison Influence 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

We have different definitions for good enough when it comes to how much training humans require in different jobs. The second question to ask, then, is how important it is to capture user data in the wild. Machines learn faster with more data, and more data is generated when machines are deployed in the wild.

Company 8

Company Wilde Airlines Transportation 8

Chris Brady

JUNE 24, 2010

        It was a courageous and wild decision, one that would throwher into hunger and doubt. Dennis Posted by: Dennis Perry | June 27, 2010 at 12:23 AM Definitely a title she had never received until now.   She hadabsolutely no income and had to resort to begging for supplies and food.

Open-book 115

Open-book Blog Letter Politics 115

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

When I speak to corporate audiences around the country, I ask that individuals give us their personal definition of stress. Agreements, on the other hand, set the team up for success, fulfillment, and most importantly, a sense of control. I agree to handle disputes, perceived offenses, or conflicts with dignity and professionalism.

Team 13

Team Stress Wilde Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

But two minutes from start to finish meant that they didn't brush their teeth very well, they definitely didn't floss, and the bathroom was a mess. Here are two of the examples of goals gone wild the authors described in their paper: Sears set a productivity goal for their auto repair staff of bringing in $147 for every hour of work.

Goal 20

Goal BHAG Wilde Class 20

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 14, 2014

The beginning of the movie held a powerful scene of the apes hunting in the wild. Caesar tells Blue Eyes not to move but he goes after one of the wild beasts. This is definitely a must-see movie this summer. We can also learn leadership lessons from Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes. Caesar to his son Blue Eyes -.

Leadership 289

Leadership Wilde Reputation Reference 289

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

The biggest problem is the very definition of “market.” But we should recognize their fundamental flaws and complement them with a new set of metrics. Essentially, we need bifocals for business metrics. more units than Tesla. .” It’s a metric that’s better but still part of the problem.

Metrics 8

Metrics Market Penetration Wilde Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. But no matter which definition you use, it’s hard to see Tesla fitting it. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide. This despite the fact that the company lost nearly two billion dollars in the past two years alone.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Their working definitions range from the simple (“discretionary effort”) to the mind-bending (“complex nomological network encompassing trait, state, and behavioral constructs”). Academics, consultants, and leaders have been grappling with that question for decades.

Attrition 8

Attrition Survey Wilde Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

And, by definition, paying attention to the present keeps us where we are. And while you can’t spend all your time pursuing those objectives, you definitely won’t get there if you don’t spend any of your time pursuing them. On the other hand, what most of us want most is to move forward. You may not please everyone.

Definition 8

Definition Wilde Planning Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

There are many different types of machine learning, and a variety of definitions of the term. Many organizations today are wondering how to get into machine learning, and what it means for their existing analytics operation. The computer constructing the model “learns” during the construction process what model best fits the data.

Operations 8

Operations Construction Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8