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SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Tracy Streckenbach, president and chief operating officer of Innovative Global Brands. She said she might spend months to define the right goals for a company and set the benchmarks [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Keep tweaking it – keep innovating. I just listened to this wonderful interview:‘My Goal Is To Not Be Bored By What I Do’: Itzhak Perlman At 70. Keep at it. Never settle for what you did; aim for what you can do. Keep enjoying it. Never be bored.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Baby Boomers Beyond Philosophy’s Thought Leadership Principal Colin Shaw on "New Generation of Business: Connecting Employee Loyalty with Customer Loyalty" engagement refers to the employees desire to go above and beyond what is expected of them to innovate and further company goals based on their discretionary effort Generation (..)

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JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 11, 2011

Levers of Control: How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal Robert Simons Harvard Business School Press (1994) I read this book when it was first published in 1994 and recently re-read it, curious to see how well it has held up. My conclusion? Very well indeed. What I find especially noteworthy is [.].

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APRIL 13, 2012

That makes it difficult to realize strategic goals and undermines performance. It was co-authored by Stephen Hall, Dan Lovallo, and Reinier Musters. Most companies allocate the same resources to the same business units year after year. The [.].

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JULY 29, 2012

Our goal is to provide leaders in the commercial, public, and social sectors [.]. Here is the executive summary of a recent report featured online by The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the business and economics research arm of McKinsey & Company.

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