Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes. Influential leadership is about influencing people to follow.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

” Discover Roger on Twitter at @DoctorDuncan. How those principles should be manifest in a particular situations depend on the work being done, the management system that is in place, the individual people involved, the specific focus of the effort right now. To explore the concept of WIIFM, I talked with several experts.”

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 241

Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

Vincent Barabba led the US Census Bureau, founded Market Insight Corporation and authored The Decision Loom: A design or interactive decision-making in organizations (among other books). The idea of testing opinions and beliefs is key to Deming’s management system (as it is to the scientific method).

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Deming Kaizen Rogers Drucker 28

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Roger Staubach United States Naval Academy graduate, Heisman Trophy winner and legendary Hall of Fame quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys (1969 – 1979) Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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Rogers Leadership Newsletter Strategic Planning 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1. Focus on return on customer.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

I'd bet, given recent events in the markets, like many, you'd like to get to the bottom of what the heck is really going on here. But the market turmoil we've witnessed in the past few days might should not have been a surprise — and wasn't — to those who have been paying attention. It's been a scary couple of days.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. How to survive and thrive in a down economy.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

These power styles emerge from the emotional and behavioral responses people internalize from dealing with authority figures in the family system. Scarcity issues within the family system are at the heart of the Pleaser power style. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Rational capacity – ability to set aside emotional agendas.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Computer systems often don't come in a multitude of small parts; they generally come in huge packages. So is there a way to implement big process and system changes while engaging workers and enabling organizational learning? For example, the new system replaced a manual process for order entry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Together, we've constructed school libraries, repaired churches, built roads, and, crucially, ensured clean water through new aqueduct systems. Twelve-year-old Roger Ruiz was expelled from his public school in rural Nicaragua. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

The company, Australia’s largest wealth platform provider, is the wealth management arm of the Westpac Group (Australia’s second largest bank in terms of market capitalization). Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin of the Rotman School, design thinking has three major stages. Related Video. Popularized by David M.

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Commitment Banking Proposal Video 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. These early systems superimposed virtual information on the physical environment (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

I also argued that capital markets regulators are much more lackadaisical about protecting the game that has been entrusted to them — and they should learn a lesson from the NFL before their game is irreparably damaged. This is why the contrast between the capital markets reaction and the NFL reaction is both so stark and so sad.

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Hammer Rogers Letter Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Did you notice how quickly the Ray Rice story turned into the Roger Goodell story? They are systemic. These moments are about larger systems of roles, beliefs, behaviors, and history. Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market.

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Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

It is unthinkable, for instance, to imagine a social entrepreneur treating research on the health effects of tobacco use the way the tobacco industry, market analysts, and investors did in the 1960s and '70s. I read, among many others, the writings of researchers such as Roger Bate and Paul Newton. They can be more analytical.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Supply Chain Prahalad 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

What's more, those streaks were still made by the skillful, such giants as Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby. They argue that long streaks in the mutual fund world — such as when a fund beats the market many years in a row — are simply products of lots of funds performing in a mediocre way for a long time. But is this true?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

As Joan Lewis, former P&G Global Officer and SVP of Consumer and Market Knowledge says, “Hundreds or thousands of projects are good ideas but if we don’t prune the list, they will strangle each other like weeds in a garden.”. For example, a major bank tried to do a technological transition of their system without sufficient pre-testing.

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After Action Review Rogers Contingency Plans Leadership 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. As a result, a new era is emerging.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Schultz is already well-known as one of this generation’s CEO activists, a group which includes Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein , Duke Energy’s Jim Rogers , and Google’s Eric Schmidt — and other high-ranking corporate leaders like Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg.

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CEO Policies Politics Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

” Lego has used the systems approach to great effect; P&G has arguably elevated the factory approach to its most elaborate. Coming something of a full circle, Intuit has famously instituted a process to teach everyone to think as creatively as the talented professionals of Pixar, Dior, and IDEO.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. pretty much ever since. That Fed staff is loaded with economics PhDs.

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Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. In 1979, Betsy Rogers became the first Central Park Administrator and set out to save park operations from a shrunken staff and dismal resources.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

I only first heard of the book (or at least heard of it and remembered it) in a conversation with Roger Lowenstein a few months ago. I was talking about some writing I'd been doing on corporate governance and the role of shareholders; Roger immediately brought up Exit, Voice, and Loyalty.

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Airlines Rogers Henderson Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., They drive corporate strategy, marketing, and research and development, as well as individual investment decisions. Rivalry is everywhere. Ford versus GM), or between nations (e.g., should U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions. The bad news is that the job market is really tight, and it’s preventing us from hiring the conceptual designers we need.” That won’t be easy, given the job market.”. What went wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The party has been selling pretty much the same product for more than three decades now, while market conditions have changed. It's like the flailing companies in Ted Levitt's classic HBR article " Marketing Myopia " that err by thinking their job is to sell a product rather than satisfy a customer need. Lafley and Roger L.

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Brand Productivity Products P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The video, an interview about his agenda-setting article, " Creating Shared Value ," kicked off a year of revisiting our current economic system across our book , blog , and magazine channels, and it produced some of our best rich media features: Illustrated timeline. The Good Company: Then and Now. Video interview. Interactive infographic.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. Instead, the company called the new iPad just that: “the new iPad.” So it gives you added freedom. And then came Windows 7.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

“ America’s public sector has also found new issues to focus on – as Roger Martin has persuasively argued , Democrats now care about the interests of shareholders and investors, and Republicans about top-tier talent. It’s a more fragmented labor market. It’s an entrenched, legally supported partnership model. It’s not a love-in.

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Globalization CIO Rogers Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts, also at last night's event, talked with Rotman Dean Roger Martin about the necessity to have an evolving digital strategy in the face of what she called a "mobile metamorphosis." When has more participation in our political system ever been a bad thing? We absolutely know it.

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Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

Breaking down silos and decision-making hierarchies, understanding customers better, bringing products to market faster — these are imperatives for many companies today. Second, Edmunds.com employees had plenty of creative ideas for improving the site but no standard system for evaluating and implementing them.

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