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An Ordinary Man: Gerald R. Ford

Leading Blog

Richard Norton Smith’s extraordinary biography of Gerald Ford, An Ordinary Man , pulls together multiple perspectives to give essential insights into Ford’s thinking and leadership. G ERALD FORD was an inner-directed leader that gave him quiet strength. He didn’t indulge his ego.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2023

Leading Blog

Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change. Ford by Richard Norton Smith (Harper, 2023) From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including George Washington, Herbert Hoover, and Nelson Rockefeller comes this eye-opening life of Gerald R.

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Richie Norton on The Power of Starting Something Stupid

Rajesh Setty

It was great way to start the second half of 2013 with a phone conversation with Richie Norton , the author of The Power of Starting Something Stupid. to explain the process. T | Trust – You then have to start trusting the process. This is Richie’s second book (after Resumes are Dead and What to Do About It ). Gavin’s Law.

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Intuition Pumps: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Norton & Company (2013) Here is a process of natural selection that could (perhaps) help to achieve metacognition With regard to the title, Daniel Dennett observes, “Intuition pumps have been a dominant force in philosophy for centuries. Norton & Company' Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking Daniel C.

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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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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. Norton and their Palladium associates. John Kotter offers the “8 Step Process for Leading Change”. Building engagement also requires empowering people to change/innovate their work processes. Kaplan and David P.

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. Plan Operations: improve key processes; develop sales plan; plan resource capacity; prepare budgets. Discipline I.

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