Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Delegation is a necessary survival skill for senior executives. But when executives delegate their discovery-related innovation tasks, the odds of them finding the surprising insights that often spur transformative-growth businesses decrease dramatically. Strategy can't always be scheduled. Join a brainstorming session.

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Delegation Wiseman Rogers Participative 15

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

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

We’re not the first to propose that strategy borrows from design; in HBR articles, Henry Mintzberg drew the analogy with the potter throwing a bowl and Roger Martin has made an explicit connection with design. An approach that we think might work better would be to treat strategy making as if it were a design process.

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Strategic Planning Mintzberg Planning Document 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Roger Schwarz. Even though executives are supposed to delegate solvable problems to their direct reports, walking away from a concrete, short-term issue is as hard as driving past an accident without rubbernecking. Stu Heinecke. 5 Ways Meetings Get Off Track, and How to Prevent Each One. Renee Cullinan.

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Long-term Short-term Strategy Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Roger Schwarz. If it’s alright with you, I’d like to send Jose as my delegate.” Whatever the reason, sometimes you need to decline a meeting invite. You and Your Team Series. How Top Salespeople Land Hard-to-Get Meetings. Stu Heinecke. 5 Ways Meetings Get Off Track, and How to Prevent Each One. Renee Cullinan.

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Politics Participative Rogers Information 11

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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Tips How To Mentor Mission Statement 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

Philosophers such as Sanders Pierce and design thinkers such as Roger Martin have long proposed the ability of human minds to perform leaps of logic to get to creative solutions. Alluding to Peter Drucker’s thinking, effectiveness should be a human pursuit, while efficiency should be delegated to machines.

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