First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 15, 2013

As I began to read Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry, written by David C. Robertson with Bill Breen and published by Crown Business, it occurred to me that LEGO blocks offer a unique opportunity to master the core principles of Joseph Schumpeter concept of […].

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Creativity How To Globalization Industry 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 1, 2016

Industry experience includes healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, gaming, hospitality, chemicals, oil & gas, industrial manufacturing, retail and consumer durables. Scott Whitaker is a Partner with Global PMI Partners and has been involved in dozens of mergers and acquisitions totaling nearly $100 billion in value.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I just bought Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry Eastabrook for my [.]. I am behind on my fiction reading (50 years behind); my business book reading; my general nonfiction reading. I’m just behind! But here are two books on my reading list.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 9, 2016

Thanks to Uber, the entire industry is doomed. And I started thinking – has there been any company/industry… Read More A few Random Thoughts on a Saturday… about Disruption, Change, the Price of Oil….

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Price Industry Company Blog 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

I lay out evidence demonstrating four things: (1) the leadership industry… Read More Executive Level Book Synopsis Presentations – Maybe just what your Leadership Team(s) could use. How can this be, after more than a century of research seeking to figure out how to select better leaders? 


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Execution Books Team Class 93

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 10, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "Execution without discipline is merely activity" "the creation of a viable new offering" "Vision without execution is hallucination" Bansi Nagii Brian Quinn Configuration Defining Characteristics of Innovation Leadership Experience Helen Walters How Industries and Markets Shift -- And Learn from Those Who Saw the Signs and Acted (..)

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Quinn Ryan Innovation Books 98

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 19, 2012

The Transformative CEO: Impact Lessons from Industry Game Changers Jeffrey J. Fox and Robert Reiss McGraw-Hill (2012) How and why leaders transform themselves so that they will be more effective transforming their organizations Each year, the average tenure of a new CEO becomes shorter and is about 36 months as I begin this brief commentary.

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CEO Review Books Industry 89

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 1, 2012

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, and Bill Huyett John Wiley & Sons (2011) How executives can make much better decisions – “even as markets, economies, and industries change around them” All organizations need a solid foundation on which their executives can base their most important decisions about strategy, (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 16, 2013

Bob''s blog entries a riveting critique of professional leadership AMC’s Breaking Bad “good leaders are invariably effective negotiators” “Strategy can be viewed as building defenses against the competitive forces or finding a position in the industry where the forces are weakest” Ben Wasserstein Bloomberg Businessweek Breaking Bad''s Management Lessons (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 25, 2014

It doesn’t matter what your job title, or industry, is. I think every person shares one trait – what I will call the hardest part of your job, no matter what your job is. It’s a little difficult to describe. Start with this, from Atul Gawande, from The Checklist Manifesto: Discipline is hard – harder […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 31, 2013

Debs Haymarket Riot of 1886 history.com Industrial Revolution Labor Day: A Briefing Matthew Maguire Peter J. I am grateful to history.com for the information I now share, and hopeful that one […]. Bob''s blog entries a “workingmen’s holiday” Central Labor Union Eugene V. history'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 16, 2012

and was probably introduced when Edgar McVoy convinced Lowell Mellen to join him in Japan to properly install the Training Within Industry (TWI) programs in 1951. [.]. The Japanese term for continuous improvement is kaizen (??)

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Kaizen Industry Training Lean Manufacturing 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Among them, one is a retired research scientist and research facility director; one is a retired Air Force Colonel, now training pilots for a major airline; and one just sold his company after a remarkable run, building it from scratch into one of the premiere companies in its industry in… Read More Be Prepared – Thoughts on the Presidential (..)

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Airlines Industry Training Company 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 7, 2016

He has worked with both individuals and presentation teams in a wide range of industries and professions. A presentation skills trainer and coach since 1992, Bill Steele has helped thousands of presenters increase their ability to craft strong, persuasive messages and deliver them with an engaging style.

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Skills Industry Team How To 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 15, 2015

Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Alcoa Big Think Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville BT Department of Defense Design Management Journal Google Harvard Business School Press Getting Beyond IBM IEEE Software Industrial Designers Society of America''s global International Design Excellence Awards Intel James O''Toole John Wiley & Sons Judgment Calls (..)

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Wilde Drucker Software Innovation 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 13, 2014

He told me that the big word in his industry — practically the only word — is “discovery.” I recently visited with the head of a publishing company. ” Getting discovered is the ball game. Randy''s blog entries'

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Blog Industry Books Company 95

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 30, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Abercrombie & Fitch in retail Better before cheaper: Compete on differentiators other than price Deloitte Heartland Express in trucking Maytag in appliances Merck in the pharmaceutical industry Michael E.

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Pharmaceuticals Company Price Retail 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Karl Krayer presented his synopsis of Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry by David Robertson and Bill […]. We had a terrific session this morning at the September First Friday Book Synopsis. Randy''s blog entries'

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Books Globalization Blog Industry 106

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 19, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "the choices societies make affect their rate of innovation" experimentation How and why "the infinite power of ideas" can help the human race to manage finite natural resources Johannes Gutenberg''s introduction of s moveable type printing press Ramez Naam Roger Bacon''s refinement of Aristotelian empiricism to what we now view (..)

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Resources Rogers Review Books 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 25, 2013

Kandel Harvard College Mattias Kabel Our Artful Brain Phi Beta Kappa Society Picasso Priscilla Long Ralph Waldo Emerson The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art [comma] Mind [comma] and Brain The American Scholar the brain is an artist that creates images out of separate visual components The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide (..)

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Mentor Magazine Industry Blog 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 19, 2013

How will IT change the basis of competition in our industry? Bob''s blog entries “Elevating technology on the boardroom agenda" Brad Brown Do our business plans reflect the full potential of technology to improve our performance?

Technology 75

Technology McKinsey Industry Strategy 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 14, 2013

The industry looks for people who can combine analysis with presentation skills and management insight. I just read this from Business Insider: MANAGEMENT CONSULTING CEO: Our Clients Want More Than Just MBAs by Max Nisen. It is about the skills and expertise that consulting firms now need in its people. Look at the list: #1 [.].

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Analysis Skills Management Consultative 110

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 19, 2014

He is widely regarded as a thought leader in the RFID industry. In 2002, he launched RFID Journal on the Web as an independent source of news and information for business and IT executives looking to tap RFID’s enormous potential. Previously, he was […]. Bob''s blog entries annual RFID Journal LIVE!

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Conference Media Information Blog 95

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 13, 2013

As we get deeper into the 2010s, the most successful companies in every industry in the United States – from food to fashion – are ditching mass production in favor of customization… America is becoming a nation of customizers. And the one new rule for successful businesses across the country is simple: Customize for your […].

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Fashion Blog Industry Productivity 107

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Joshua Rothman, Shut Up and Sit Down: Why the leadership industry rules. “People who fetishize leadership sometimes find themselves longing for crisis. They yearn for emergency, dreaming of a doomsday to be narrowly averted.” from The New Yorker) ——————– We successfully train people all the time.

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Crisis Training Industry Succession 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 10, 2014

He is widely regarded as a thought leader in the RFID industry. In 2002, he launched RFID Journal on the Web as an independent source of news and information for business and IT executives looking to tap RFID’s enormous potential. Previously, he was […].

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Wilde Drucker Media Tools 102

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Michael joined CS in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst, and was repeatedly named to Institutional Investor‘s All-America Research Team and The Wall Street Journal All-Star survey. Mauboussin is Chief LMCM in 2004, Michael was Chief U.S. Investment Strategist at Credit Suisse.

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Survey Industry Skills Team 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 19, 2011

Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer’s “Industry Leaders” series. Here is an excerpt from an article about Ancella Livers written by Melissa J. The Glass Hammer is an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

Execution 80

Execution Hammer Industry Article 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The leadership industry “has failed over its roughly forty-year history to in any major, meaningful, measurable way improve the human condition,” and that “the rise of leadership as an object of our collective fascination has coincided precisely with the decline of leadership in our collective estimation.”

Books 70

Books Leadership Objective Industry 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 16, 2015

It is no longer socially acceptable to dump employees on the heap of unemployed… The basic cause of sickness in American industry and resulting unemployment is failure of top management to manage. Randy''s blog entries'

Management 70

Management Deming Crisis Blog 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 10, 2011

Here is a recent article in the “Industry News&# series posted online at Talent Management magazine’s website (February 14, 2011).

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Talent Management Magazine Company Industry 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 16, 2012

David Marquet The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level L. Morris Selling to China: A Guide to Doing Business in China [.].

Blog 95

Blog Innovation Review Industry 95

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

“But our estimates, based on evidence from a variety of industries, suggest that star employees outperform others by a country mile.” In an article written for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network, Michael Mankins, Alan Bird, and James Root acknowledge the assertion that talent is overrated.

Review 85

Review Blog Industry Article 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 10, 2013

Marty Neumeier is a designer, writer, and business adviser whose mission is to bring the principles and processes of creativity to industry. His latest book, Metaskills, explores the five essential talents that will drive innovation in the 21st century.

Creativity 85

Creativity Innovation Industry Books 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Cover image: Maria Corte Maidagan * * * What is the useful […].

Commitment 75

Commitment Industry Blog Report 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 4, 2013

Marty Neumeier is a designer, writer, and business adviser whose mission is to bring the principles and processes of creativity to industry. His latest book, Metaskills, explores the five essential talents that will drive innovation in the 21st century.

Creativity 75

Creativity Innovation Industry Books 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 17, 2014

“ Opinions vary as to the timeframe of the Industrial Revolution and there is also disagreement as to whether or not it was in […]. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee W.W. Norton & Company (2014) “Technology is not destiny.

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Norton Review Books Technology 75