First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 25, 2012

{A CEO of a growing, mid-sized company called me this week, and said, “I want to tell you a story.” I love that phrase! It was a good story. Here is his story. And, yes, this is a true story}. ————– So, you are surrounded by people who are more knowledgeable than you, more equipped [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 17, 2012

Your central function is to engineer intelligent, spirited conversations… Susan Scott, Fierce Leadership ————— “Your central function is to engineer …conversations.”

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APRIL 29, 2014

I just read an article which included much about the role of engineers at Google. In this STEM world, success simply requires a wider array of abilities and skills than ever before. First, you’ve got to have one of/some of those hard skills to succeed. You have to be able to do something. (I Pretty amazing!). […].

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APRIL 25, 2013

Whittier Professor at Stanford Edison Achievement Award for Innovation Fortune Magazine How IDEO brings design to corporate America National Academy of Engineers National Design Award in Product Design Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum' Bob''s blog entries Chrysler Design Award Dinah Eng Donald W.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 10, 2014

Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power—the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments—what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power. Now comes the second machine age.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Will Oremus, Google’s Big Break: It was a great search engine but a money-losing business—until it borrowed an idea from its biggest rival (from Slate.com) She’s just been busy working, doing it, making those words “Women’s […]. “The Google idea was the idea for organizing the world’s information. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 4, 2011

I presented The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters, and Karl presented The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level by Noel Tichy. (I’m In April of 1998, Karl Krayer and I presented synopses of the first two books selected for the 1st First Friday Book Synopsis. I’m a fan of Tom Peters, [.].

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JUNE 1, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Harvard Business Review HBR Blog Network HBR email alerts Hogan Assessment Systems John Irving: "the reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it''s not work for me" London School of Economics Mark Zuckerberg metaprofiling.com.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "potential" means "you ain''t done it yet" 99U Box Series Amazon Publishing Anders Ericsson and associates at Florida State University Behance Cal Newport Darrell Royal David Burkus Frans Johansson Heidi Grant Halvorson Insights on making ideas happen Jocelyn Glei (Editor) Jonathan Fields Joshua Foer on Learning to Live Outside (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

A worker today might start the morning by collaborating with a team of engineers, then send emails to colleagues marketing a new brand, then jump on a conference call planning an entirely different product line, while also juggling team meetings with accounting and the party-planning committee.

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AUGUST 20, 2011

He received a BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 1985 from MIT and his PhD in the same discipline from Cornell University in 1989. Fitzgerald was born in Springfield, MA, USA.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 6, 2015

Knopf, 1997) – Synopsis by Randy Mayeux and #2 — The Leadership Engine: […]. Here were our first two selections: April 3, 1998 #1 — The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters (Alfred A. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Captain Chris Henkey, 63, was taking off on one of his final flights as a pilot when his left engine set alight on the runway at a Las Vegas’ McCarran Airport on Tuesday evening.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Rumelt received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School in 1972, having previously earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He worked as a systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories and served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1976.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 27, 2013

Malcolm Gladwell on “Most Likely to Succeed” Management Tip of the Day Mark Eaton McKinsey & Company MIT Sloan Management Review Rik Kirkland Robert Steven Kaplan Seven Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People Simon London talent management The Commitment Engine The Five New Faces of Leadership The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook The New York (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2012

The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every [.]. On April 3, 1998, Karl Krayer and I presented our first two books at the first ever First Friday Book Synopsis. Here were our first two book choices: • The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997) – synopsis presented by Randy Mayeux. •

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APRIL 10, 2013

Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Hire, Keep and Nurture Creative Talent Nolan Bushnell with Gene Stone netminds (2013) Ignore the title and focus on the wealth of information, insights, and wisdom Bushnell provides Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur and engineer.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 3, 2013

In 1969, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon noted: “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture, and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent — not with how things are, but with they might be — in short, with design.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 21, 2012

Check out this fellow who seems to have a jet engine attached to his back. I’ve often wondered and now I know. Actually, he’s offering additional proof of Darwin’s theory. link] Filed under: Bob's blog entries.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. It is generally known that Archimedes of Syracuse (c.?287 Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2012

Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Carl Bass, president and chief executive of Autodesk Inc, a maker of 3-D design, engineering and entertainment software. Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Liker is Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and principal of Liker Lean Advisors, LLC. He has authored or co-authored over 75 articles and book chapters and ten books.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 12, 2011

in engineering from West Point and a PhD in literary studies from The American University. Bacon is a Scholar in Residence in the Korn/Ferry Institute. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Lore International Institute. He has a B.S.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 20, 2011

in engineering from West Point and a PhD in literary studies from The American University. Bacon is a Scholar in Residence in the Korn/Ferry Institute. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Lore International Institute. He has a B.S. He has also studied business and leadership at Goddard College, Roosevelt University, University of [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2011

How NET PROMOTER Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World Fred Reichheld with Rob Markey Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Here is an open-source system whose “engine” can drive profitable growth This is a revised and expanded second edition of a book published in 2006. The Ultimate Question 2.0:

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 6, 2016

Andrew Hargadon is a Professor of Technology Management and Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of California at Davis. The primary focus of his research is on the effective management of innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly in the development and commercialization of sustainable technologies.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Here is another in the CONVERSATIONS AT EDGE series, in this instance a conversation with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. “The point we will be making here is that logically, neither trial and error nor “chance” and serendipity can be behind the gains in technology and empirical science attributed to them.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tom Kelley and David Kelley for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * What does it take [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Managing Global Innovation: Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities Around the World Yves Doz and Keeley Wilson Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition (Second Edition) Dennis N.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World Tony Wagner Scribner/A Simon & Schuster Imprint (2012) Why and how to nurture the creativity of all children As Tony Wagner explains, “This book is about how we can develop the capacities of many more young people to be creative and entrepreneurial. This [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 25, 2012

The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company’s Human Capital Investments Jac Fitz-enz AMACOM (2010) A brilliant explanation of “the first holistic, predictive management model and operating system for the HR function” Those who have read one or more of Jac Fitz-enz’s previously published books know that (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 21, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joshua Gans for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * We are told that some large fraction (possibly 80 percent) of [.].

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands Marty Neumeier Peachpit Press (2006) How to “zag” when everyone else “zigs” In a previous book, The Brand Gap, Marty Neumeier explains how companies can bridge the gap between business strategy and customer experience, noting that brand-building isn’t a series of (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 30, 2012

Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work Michael Michalko New World Library (2011) How and why conceptual blending of dissimilar subjects, ideas, and concepts is the most important factor in creative thinking Those who have read any of Michael Michalko’s previously published books, notably Cracking Creativity and Thinkertoys, already (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2011

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2011

In their employee engagement study, Elizabeth Craig of the Accenture Institute for High Performance and Lauren DeSimone of the International Consortium for Executive Development Research, explore this topic in depth.

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