First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 3, 2013

It is practically impossible to reduce the success of Amazon down to any one thing — except for the […]. I am immersed in preparing my handout for my synopsis of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone. (I’m I’m presenting my synopsis this Friday at the First Friday Book Synopsis).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This is what successful people do” ideas. Successful people don’t “mosey” – they walk faster than less successful people walk. and Successful people show up as themselves all [.]. There are ideas which you can hear, realize their value, and put into practice. And then there are other ideas which are simply illustrative.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 25, 2012

• “Success is peace of mind which is s direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” ” • For Coach Wooden, 10 national championships are summed up in the simplicity of an elegant formula: 10 = C + F + U (Conditioning + Fundamentals + [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 20, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Imagezoo/Getty Images Jimmy Black Kendall Marshall Global Wealth & Investment Management for Bank of America LinkedIn Phil Ford Raymond Felton Sallie Krawcheck the best performing teams are diverse teams The Secret to Putting Together an Insanely Successful Team Ty Lawson'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 16, 2012

To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here. * * * (MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Money and its material manifestations are the most typical measures of a person’s professional success, but they’re not always [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 27, 2012

To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * The most successful people in business approach their work differently than most. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Jeff Haden and featured online by Inc. See how they think–and why it works. [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 5, 2013

He begins with an excerpt from Terry Leahy’s book, Management in 10 Words: Practical Advice from the Man Who Created One of the World’s Largest Retailers , and shares his own thoughts about another book, Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful – […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 20, 2013

Accenture conducted its global research study, “Defining Success” for release on International Women’s Day to gain insight into behaviors and attitudes regarding women’s careers.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Aubrey Daniels International Building a culture of succession readiness means managing the right behaviors for all employees to achieve and sustain success Building in Readiness Chief Learning Officer magazine Darnell Lattal on "How to Create a Culture of Succession Readiness Is your organization ready to bridge the knowledge gaps (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 14, 2016

has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times Corporation, Toyota, and over 500… Read More Alan Weiss on “How to forge your own path to success”: An interview by Bob Morris. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc.,

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 6, 2013

Success Under Stress: Powerful Tools for Staying Calm, Confident, and Productive When the Pressure’s On Sharon Melnick AMACOM (2013) How to avoid or overcome self-defeating barriers to success…including those that are self-imposed Walt Kelly’s possum, Pogo, once observed, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 6, 2011

To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * Why have you been so successful in [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 11, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Entrepreneur magazine Gretchen Rubin Harper Perennial Imagine your perfect morning Keep a time journal Laura Vanderkam Lisa Evans Mornings give you the opportunity to set a positive tone for the day Portfolio Trade Shutterstock Starbucks President Michelle Gaas The Happiness Project The Power of Mornings: Why Successful Entrepreneurs (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Bob''s blog entries chooseust.org Entrepreneur magazine How to Eliminate Habits Holding You Back From Success Is it time to ask for feedback? When it comes to achieving measurable goals, this means we tend to do what we’ve always done, how we’ve […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 23, 2013

Muñiz Jr Be as open as possible Be clear about rules and expectations DePaul University (Chicago) Don’t expect one size to fit all Ensure a win-win Flickr user spike Lego Group in Denmark Lego''s Core Principles for Successful Interaction With Users MIT Sloan Management Review Recognize that outsiders aren’t insiders Tormod Askildsen Yun Mi Antorini' (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 5, 2012

Calculating Success: How the New Workplace Analytics Will Revitalize Your Organization Carl Hoffman, Eric Lesser, and Tim Ringo Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why “the connective tissue between vision and execution is workforce analytics” According to Carl Hoffmann, Eric Lesser, and Tim Ringo, “there is more measurable value (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 4, 2012

The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing Michael Mauboussin Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to “untangle” skill and luck to improve at “the art of good guesswork” when making decisions I have read all of Michael Mauboussin’s HBR Blog posts and thus have eagerly anticipated the publication [.]. (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 1, 2016

Whitaker on completing successful cross-border mergers and acquisitions: An interview by Bob Morris. Industry experience includes healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, gaming, hospitality, chemicals, oil & gas, industrial manufacturing, retail and consumer durables.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 9, 2011

What success means is highly [.]. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sign up for a free subscription to HBR emsil Alerts, please click here. * * * Most people dream of succeeding.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 22, 2013

The path to business success has to start here – and, it pretty much ends here: You have to have a product or service that others will pay for… If you get everything right except this, you’re toast. You’ve got to have a product, or service, that people want, or need, and will pay for. […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 22, 2012

Here is an article written by Steve Tobak for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here. * * * (MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY Executives and business leaders don’t just peak and lose their [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andreas Kluth for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Something odd and interesting happens to a lot of people who [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The fact is that small talk – the kind that happens between two people who don’t know each other – is the most important talk we do… The one trait that was common among the class’s most accomplished graduates was “verbal fluency” (from… Read More Have More Conversations; You Need More Conversations – (A reflection after attending Success (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 24, 2015

So, as you prepare to provide that excellent customer service, that superior customer experience that you intend, you have to first have successful interactions with that customer. Here are five musts for successful customer interactions: #1 – Make sure you listen – listen really, really well. “I I think […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 15, 2016

This morning, they had a wonderful panel of speakers at Success North Dallas, focusing on “The New Face of Corporate Citizenship.” To put it simply, Corporate Citizenship has a lot to… Read More Learning to Do a Few Things Really Well (Thoughts on Corporate Citizenship) – Another Good Morning at Success North Dallas.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 19, 2015

Formula for success: Get smart people together in a room. If you can make this group diverse, so much for the better — diverse in opinion, in training, in expertise, in age, in background– in every way. Give them some kind of content to act as a conversation starter. Get them talking. And then, magic can […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 24, 2013

Here is sign #5: A healthy organization is effective at building and nurturing successful teams. In my introductory post, 12 Vital signs of Organizational Health, I listed the 12 signs. We live in an era of collaboration. We work with other people – we work together. We work in teams, on teams. And, no matter which […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 2, 2011

In The Effective Executive, first published in 1967, Peter Drucker stressed the importance of mastering several learnable disciplines. They include • Manage your time and your energy, not your work • Know your priorities • Do first things first • Do not multi-task • Focus on (leverage) strengths, both yours and others’ He then asserts [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Like treating workers… Read More “Wrongdoing for Gain” as Formula for Success – Do We Really Want to Accept This?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 14, 2011

Here is an article written by Kelly Goldsmith and Marshall Goldsmith for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * I once had the privilege of spending 50 days with Peter [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 24, 2012

of the greatest success stories all seem to have [.]. I’m a fan of the 10,000 hour rule (you know – the rule that says it takes 10,000 hours to get really, really good at something). I think it makes sense of so much of the world. Many (most?)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Thank you to all the participants who donated funds at our August program to the Take Time to Read program, sponsored by the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. I am pleased to report that our donations reached $540, which for a crowd our size, is truly remarkable. This will buy more than 35 new […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

I think every successful business enterprise has to have someone (someones) responsible for these eight “jobs” –“tasks” – in order to continue on the path to success. Getting the important things right. Here’s another way to look at the list of “basics.” Here they are: Job […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 3, 2013

I have been working on a project for about a year now. It is a work in progress, with a couple of active “partners in thinking,” and an occasional piece of feedback from others to help refine it. My first “roll out” came in the blog posts on the 12 Vital Signs of a Healthy […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 14, 2015

Recently, Bill Wallace, the leader of Success North Dallas, told me of a simple formula he follows. – (Insight from Bill Wallace, Success North Dallas). He calls it his “Return On Time.” Some call this “ROTI” – “Return on Time Invested.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 22, 2011

Here is an excerpt from PsyBlog, a website that features scientific research into how the mind works. Its author is Jeremy Dean, currently a researcher at University College London, working towards a PhD, having previously completed an MSc in Research Methods in Psychology at the same institution. The studies he covers have been published in [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 18, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another lively and informative article written by Laura Vanderkam for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Mornings are a mad-cap time in many [.].

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