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Booknotes: 14 Ideas from The Power of Something Stupid

Leading Blog

Author Richie Norton explains that life-changing ideas are often tragically mislabeled stupid. And on the flip side, if you try to start all of your stupid ideas at once, you’re bound to waste time, energy, and money (and go completely loco in the process).

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4 Ways To End Destructive Pride

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Ritchie Norton. People who let pride drag them down to that type of thinking or behavior are guaranteed to lose friends and opportunity in the process. The data overwhelmingly concluded that the greatest companies had what Collins called “Level 5 leadership.”

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The Strategy-Focused Organization: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Norton Harvard Business Press (2000) The Perilous “Journey&# to Breakthrough Performance Note: This is another “business classic” I read when it was first published and then recently re-read it. The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment Robert S. Kaplan and David P.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. They also have more influence and authority over company resources.

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The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself

Harvard Business Review

We have a bias — one that operates below our conscious awareness — leading us to prefer the potential for greatness over someone who has already achieved it. Tormala, Jia, and Norton found the same pattern when they looked at evaluations of job candidates. High-potential candidates make us think harder than proven ones do.

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How to Work with a Bad Listener

Harvard Business Review

.’” Potential problems aren’t limited to “misunderstandings and hard feelings,” according to Christine Riordan, the president of Adelphi University and a leadership coach. Today Ash provides leadership development for engineers. ” So it’s imperative to address the issue. Consider work styles.

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