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Dan Pontefract : Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Life Itself” “The Participative Leader Framework” Bill Breen Bill Gates Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Chariots of Fire Collaboration Technologies Collaborative Leader Action Model (CLAM) Dan Pink Dan Pontefract: An interview by Bob Morris Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization TELUS the TELUS Leadership Philosophy and the Learning (..)

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Intending to be innovative? Be sure you first ask the right questions before you seek answers

First Friday Book Synopsis

Many years later, Michael Porter [.]. In 1963, Peter Drucker observed that “there is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.&#

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What Tops Your 2011 Agenda?

Harvard Business Review

We put a call out to some of our favorite management thinkers and asked what challenges they were going to take on next — and what an inspiring set of projects it yielded. The first, we will admit, is a self-inflicted pattern: Several of our thinkers are setting their sights on aspects of managing people.

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HBR's Best Videos, Infographics, Podcasts, and Slideshows of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Every month in the magazine, our Life's Work department features an interview with someone who's found success outside the traditional world of business. The Trouble with Salespeople. This is one item I always look forward to.

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The State of Strategy Consulting, 2011

Harvard Business Review

Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. Monitor & Co., Foolish me, I came away thinking, underestimating the ubiquity, and triumph, of corporate strategy.

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Alan Weiss on “How to forge your own path to success”: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker, and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc.,

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Build Your Reputation the Rachael Ray Way

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious.