First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 4, 2013

Johnson Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns Evgenia Eliseeva HarperBusiness Harvard Business School Harvard Business School Press Innosight James Allworth Jason Hwang Jerome H.

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Christensen Kleiner Disruptive Innovation Health Care 90

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. Most people struggle to do what innovators excel at: connecting the unconnected. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Here are three ways to get in the habit of making new associations: 1. [.].

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Innovation Newsletter Tips Review 85

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APRIL 20, 2012

What’s disconcerting, though, is how often top management is surprised when “not” happens. Gary Hamel, The Future of Management What limits innovation in established companies isn’t a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but dearth of pro- innovation processes.

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Hamel Innovation Creativity Resources 89

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

How do you innovate? Most humans manage to squander their [.]. First, try to get in trouble. I mean serious, but not terminal, trouble. When life gives you a lemon …” It is a well-known trick that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.

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Innovation Management Blog 136

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 12, 2012

Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and the world’s most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50, lays out his landmark theory about disruptive innovation. He is also co-founder of Innosight, a management [.]. To view it, please click here.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Innovation Video 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 15, 2011

Dyer is a professor at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management and co-author of The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, co-authored with Hal B. [.].

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation How To Skills 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Henry Chesbrough for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * The first decade of the 21st century brought [.]

Innovation 89

Innovation Management Article Review 89

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2012

What’s disconcerting, though, is how often top management is surprised when “not” happens. Gary Hamel, The Future of Management What limits innovation in established companies isn’t a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but dearth of pro- innovation processes.

Hamel 70

Hamel Innovation Creativity Resources 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 11, 2013

Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why the healthiest organizations are those in which pursuit of improvement is constant, tenacious, and collaborative.

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Review Innovation Books Organization 90

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

To check out all the online resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscriptions information, please click here. * * * We’re proud to be publishing the first appearance of the World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies, a ranking that we hope to make an [.].

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Innovation Magazine Resources Article 97

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 14, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding interview featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and conducted by Joanna Barsh.

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Hamel McKinsey Innovation Management 75

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APRIL 3, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Jay Rao and Joseph Weintraub for The MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, obtain subscription information, and sign up for email alerts, please click here.

Innovation 80

Innovation Review Article Execution 80

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

” Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company that Changed the World —————- Bob [.].

Innovation 119

Innovation Leadership Consultative Company 119

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MARCH 10, 2012

The Drucker Exchange (the Dx) is a platform for bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. Maciariello featured in the Joe’s Journal series at the Drucker Exchange (Dx) sponsored by the Drucker Institute. It is produced by the Drucker Institute, a think tank and action tank [.].

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Drucker Innovation Management Leadership 75

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription, to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Necessity is the mother of invention. When times or resources are tight, people usually figure out how to make due: they create work-arounds, devise new [.].

Innovation 89

Innovation Newsletter Tips Review 89

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MARCH 17, 2012

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. * * * Note: This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta, Managing Partner [.].

Innovation 80

Innovation Review Blog Article 80

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JUNE 1, 2012

Karl Krayer presented his synopsis of All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton. We had a wonderful gathering this morning for the June 1 First Friday Book Synopsis. I presented the best-selling and much-talked-about The Power of Habit: Why We Do [.].

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Books Innovation Power Management 125

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APRIL 12, 2012

To read the complete article and check out the wealth of resources, please click here. * * * Who is the most influential living management thinker? It is featured at the Thinkers50 website. That [.].

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Management Article Resources Christensen 80

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JULY 26, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrew McAfee 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. * * * There are strident disagreements these days over every aspect of [.].

Innovation 75

Innovation Blog Review Article 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Karl''s blog entries Creativity and Innovation Creativity Inc. Jeff Mauzy Karl Krayer Leading Change Managing Change Randy Mayeux Richard Harriman Richardson Civic Center Robert Sutton The Creative Habit The Ten Steps of Innovation Tom Kelley Twyla Tharp Weird Ideas That Work'

Workshop 120

Workshop Creativity Innovation Blog 120

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation.

Prahalad 93

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Drucker 93

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Andy Grove read Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management, which described the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action. Grove realized that instead of being embodied in one person, such traits could exist in a leadership team. (At At Intel), Noyce was the outside guy, Moore the Inside, […].

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Books Innovation Blog Execution 107

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2011

” Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company that Changed the World —————- Bob [.].

Innovation 70

Innovation Leadership Consultative Company 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 15, 2015

Michael Schrage is a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Visiting Fellow at Imperial College’s Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He examines the various roles of models, prototypes, and simulations as collaborative media for innovation risk management.

Wilde 70

Wilde Drucker Software Innovation 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation.

Prahalad 75

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Wilde 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Every two years, the Thinkers50 publishes their definitive list of management thinkers. Below are the results for 2011. For classic HBR content from this year’s winners, please click here. Christensen is the Kim B.

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Christensen Management Definition Content 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is a cofound VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells Butterfly body liners nationally.

Wilde 102

Wilde Drucker Software Entrepreneur 102

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 19, 2013

He worked as a marketer in the fast moving consumer goods sector and switched to consulting at Ernst & Young Consulting and Boer & Croon Strategy & Management Group. At the end of 2002 he started his own innovation organization to spread, train and facilitate the FORTH innovation […].

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Wilde Drucker Consultative Innovation 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At Harvard, M.I.T., […].

Technology 70

Technology Creativity Innovation Review 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 24, 2014

David Burkus is the author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. David is Assistant Professor of Management at the College of Business at Oral Roberts University, where he teaches courses on leadership, creativity, strategy, and organizational behavior.

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Wilde Drucker Organizational Behavior Creativity 114

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 28, 2013

Andreasen Crisis Communications: [.]. Andreasen Peter Gray (Part 1) Richard Weylman Rutger von Post Stella & Chewy’s Steven Fink strategy+business The Creative Brain The McKinsey Quarterly The New York Times The Power of Why Thought Leader Conversation: Edgar Schein Tim Berners-Lee'

Kleiner 80

Kleiner Schein Blog McKinsey 80

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OCTOBER 13, 2014

Karl''s blog entries Creative Communication Network Creativity and Innovation Creativity Inc.

Workshop 114

Workshop Discount Creativity Innovation 114

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Management Tips from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) 150 “tips”…almost unlimited “icebergs” Here are 150 “Management Tips of the Day” that have been featured by the Harvard Business Review blog ([link] On average, each has a total word count of about 50 and is best viewed as a reminder rather [.].

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Review Tips Management Books 103

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is a co-founder of VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells Butterfly body liners nationally.

Levitt 99

Levitt Kotter Christensen Rogers 99

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Books to help you think about: time management, personal productivity, leadership, communication, strategy, organizational effectiveness, working well as a team – collaboration, execution, constant improvement, innovation… The list of challenges is kind of overwhelming, isn’t it? Two a month?

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Books Blog Innovation Strategy 125

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

In her recently published book, Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution (Bibliomotion 2013), Lisa Bodell suggests there are three kinds of culture: robust (“zombie-free”), negative, and complacent. She also identifies five especially lethal “culture killers”: 1.

Proposal 89

Proposal Open-book Innovation Blog 89

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 12, 2015

He lectures in Columbia University’s MBA value investing program on innovation, macro-economic portfolio, and scenario risk management. […].

Hedge 70

Hedge Risk Management Media Innovation 70