Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

The question on the tip of everyone's tongue when this type of nightmare takes hold is, "Why doesn't senior management do something?" The less obvious, but equally culpable, individual is often the manager who fumbles the job of taking this employee to task promptly. I'm at a loss when it comes to managing Cynthia," Roger confessed.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

For several months prior to launch Roger Boisjoly’s written memo’s predicted: “The result could be a catastrophe of the highest order, loss of human life,”. The day before the launch, and on the morning of the launch, he pleaded with NASA and his managers to delay… To no avail.

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Energy Learning-by-Doing Rogers Follow-up 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.".

CEO 15

CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

There is little I see about the practice of risk management today that is particularly helpful. In many companies, the approach seems to be a combination of formalized risk tracking and cultural engineering. In my experience, neither contributes positively to managing risk. Roger Martin's forthcoming book with A.G.

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Rogers Learning-by-Doing Document 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Last month, Fox News agreed to pay Gretchen Carlson $20 million to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s former Chairman and CEO, who resigned in the summer. And we continue to hear stories about sexual harassment in academia , medicine , science , and engineering driving women out of STEM.

Report 10

Report Long-term Training Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Or that this approach doesn’t sit well with the more engineering-oriented innovation thinkers whose work forms a parallel stream of thinking in HBR (and perhaps represent the other half of the crowd in Catmull’s polls). But even here, while the steps may be minimal, they are not all that simple.

Process 8

Process Innovation Brainstorming Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

It's an ingenuity engine. Project Management for Profit: A Failsafe Guide to Keeping Projects On Track and On Budget. by Joe Knight, Roger Thomas, and Brad Angus, with John Case. If your work involves projects, this book is for you how to manage those projects effectively. by Grant McCracken.

Books 10

Books Handbook Rogers Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

With investment bankers, civil engineers or internet software CEOs, the acting angle doesn't often get them doing really effective work. Even leaders who prefer a couch to a tennis court tend to rise to the challenge of approaching things like Venus Williams or Roger Federer — step by step, practiced move by practiced move.

Sports 15

Sports Rogers Storytelling Seminar 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

To do this, she must address a couple of issues: 1) Engineers may "delight in advertising they''re wearing the new device," but most other people don''t want to look like a weirdo resembling "the character Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager"; and 2) People don''t generally want to be reminded that they''re constantly plugged in.

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Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

But where are the fire engines? But, as Roger Martin has pointed out , it wasn't genuine to begin with; a scoreboard whose points are more and more divorced from the reality of human prosperity. It's how we're going to "manage our risk"!!). What's the breadth of your vision for change? This isn't a drill, but a nine-alarm fire.

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Budgeting Rogers Crisis Politics 17

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

These businesses seem committed to doing what they already know, and despite Roger Martin's guidance that you can't analyze your way to growth , companies continue to think of growth creation using the rearview mirror. That is the epitome of managing to yesterday's business, rather than inventing the future.

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Learning-by-Doing Rogers Marketing Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Platforms of engagement, based on human experiences, are the new loci of value creation and therefore the new engines of capitalism. billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 billion were within the balance sheet, rising 7% versus the average of 0.5% for Spain's financial sector.

CEO 10

CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Roger Martin and Sally Osberg argue in their new book, Getting Beyond Better , that the answer is social entrepreneurs, who target unjust and unsustainable systems — or “equilibria” — and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Photo courtesy of Riders for Health. Barry should know.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Health Care Transportation System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The sad news of the passing of Roger Bannister , the first human being to run a four-minute mile, got me thinking about his legacy—not just as one of the great athletes of the past century, but as an innovator, a change agent, and an icon of success. Was there a genetic engineering experiment that created a new race of super runners?

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Rogers Benchmarking Sports Business Model 18

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% million managers and the equivalent of 8.9 of the U.S.

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Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Multiple predictions for the same event can be aggregated and averaged, and therefore help managers understand what entire teams or divisions are thinking. I wanted us to improve host mode, by making it easy for streamers to build and manage a list of channels to automatically host whenever you’re offline.

Company 8

Company Participative Training Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management , though it’s more accurate to call it Digital Restrictions Management—because DRM restricts what people can do with their digital stuff. Thereafter, the modded machine brewed all coffee, including Rogers Family Company coffee. Welcome to the weird world of DRM.

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Download Rogers eBook Licensing 8