Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Master Your Mind : Counterintuitive Strategies to Refocus and Re-Energize Your Runaway Brain by Roger Seip and Robb Zbierski. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. Great Mondays : How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love by Josh Levine. Ninja Future : Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation by Gary Shapiro.

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Books Rogers Simon Library 279

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 3, 2013

In 1969, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon noted: “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture, and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent — not with how things are, but with they might be — in short, with design.

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The Idolbuster

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

As “Roger”, a VP in Silicon Valley put it. No, there are lots of things in there that you’d like to change, but you have to take the whole package.The difficult part for Roger, and for many people is the change from good to bad can be very gradual. Of course most of the time, the workplace is never all good or all bad.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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. From 1958-1982, I produced many entertainment documentaries for radio, comprising anthologies of pop music.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. That theory, says Roger Martin, “had the unfortunate effect of tightly tying together two markets: the real market and the expectations market.”

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Rogers Simon Crisis Bottom-up 264

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 18, 2011

Military work — like business — is risky, pressured, and fast-changing. It calls for absolute clarity about the mission, extraordinary adaptability, and precise management of complex systems.

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Leadership Review Content System 80

The Idolbuster

MAY 31, 2012

These works influence my own writing: Charlotte’s Web by E.B.White (children); Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (memoir); Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts (novel); Wordsworth the Poet by Frances Kakugawa (children); Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon (a play). Ginger Rogers, deceased. Who do I like to hang around with? . Rita Lakin.

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