First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

I attended the Southwest Venture Forum yesterday in Dallas. Hall Martin, Director of the Texas Entrepreneur Networks, was a panelist. He has worked with Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists, and apparently lives and breathes new ventures. I suspect he has heard a pitch or twenty from new start-ups seeking money.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The group was the entire team at a growing firm, one that is vibrant, alive, energetic… The kind of place people like to show [.]. So, this week I presented my synopsis on the terrific book Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Most team leaders know to help their team define goals, but the conversation shouldn’t stop there. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. You also need to agree on the mechanics of how the [.].

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JUNE 18, 2014

I heard Clint Bruce speak this morning at Success North Dallas (what a great organization and gathering, led by Bill Wallace). Mr. Bruce was witty, passionate, “real,” and genuinely insightful. Simple – not simplistic, but simple. And therefore, helpful.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2012

Most team leaders know to help their team define goals, but the conversation shouldn’t stop there. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. You also need to agree on the mechanics of how the [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 25, 2011

So, what is the most important personal trait that leads to success? The ability to be a good team player? Is it…the ability to network? The ability to innovate? This list could go on… The more I read, the more convinced I am that there is no one answer to this question – the question [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 16, 2012

…successful products and strategies are quickly copied. Without relentless innovation, success is fleeting. …there’s not one company in a hundred that has made innovation everyone’s job, every day. ?In In most organizations, innovation still happens “despite the system” rather than because of it.?…innovation

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Lipkin Panoramic Perspective on Success Success Schemas The SLAM Model What Keeps Leaders Up at Night: Recognizing and Resolving Your Most Troubling Management Issues'

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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Michael joined CS in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst, and was repeatedly named to Institutional Investor‘s All-America Research Team and The Wall Street Journal All-Star survey. He is the author of The Success Equation: Untangling Skill… Read More Michael J. Mauboussin: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 15, 2013

The best, most successful organizations have really good, really useful and productive leadership team meetings. A team gets together to meet. The team members need to “know stuff” before they start the meeting. But… what to do in those meetings? Here is one problem. So, they are sent something to read.

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MARCH 18, 2013

She directs the highly successful Kellogg executive course, Leading High Impact Teams, and the Kellogg Team and Group Research Center. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She also co-directs the Negotiation Strategies for Managers course.

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JULY 30, 2014

Kerr Jørgen Vig Knudstorp and his leadership team Jeanne W. Ross Pagrave/Macmillan Peter Weill The Checklist Manifesto The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change transformation of LEGO "brick by brick" Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success'

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

dence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at Work Jack Godwin Unlimited Sales Success: 12 Simple Steps for Selling More Than You Ever […].

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MAY 20, 2013

The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded Edition: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels Michael D. Watkins Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why the first 90 days in a new leadership position can sometimes seem like 90 minutes This is a revised and updated edition of a book I read […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2013

(Note: I presented my synopsis of Phil Jackson’s Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success last Friday. ——————– Your leadership team could take a brief excerpt from Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson once a week for about three months, and […].

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JUNE 2, 2016

Did the group, team, army, organization successfully accomplish what it set out to do? There are good leaders and there are bad leaders. Maybe the bad leaders aren’t actually leaders at all). And, of all the tests of leadership, the one that really matters is this: results.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 14, 2014

Recently, I was surrounded by about a dozen folks around a table who, in way or another, were tasked with hiring the right folks, and then turning those folks into the employees and the teams that would lead to greater organizational success. I started with three questions, which I adapted from the wisdom of a […].

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JULY 7, 2011

Here’s another article written by Patricia Wheeler and featured by Marshall Goldsmith’s website, Leading News, one that “delivers state-of-the-art information and ideas about best practices in leadership, helping successful people become even more successful, not only for themselves but also for their teams and for their companies.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 3, 2011

The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking Roger Martin Harvard Business School Press (2007) When I first read this brilliant book, I was reminded of what Doris Kearns reveals about Abraham Lincoln in Team of Rivals.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Successfully managing a team is a complex undertaking. Team members need to [.]. Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Increase the odds of reaching your goals by doing the following three things: 1.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 20, 2013

The team wrote the script, hand-built the sets, then filmed and edited the clip themselves. : A still from “Embrace Ambiguity,” a video by the old salts of IDEO’s New York office. To watch the video, please click here. * * * Fog is always present at IDEO, and not just at our San […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 21, 2013

Bell: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris David Kantor Drucker on Leadership Edge.org Groundswell Guy Kawasaki HBR Jeff Weiner John Brockman John Mattone: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris Lina Echeverría LinkedIn Management Tip of the Day Melissa Korn Michael Dirda On Conan Doyle or Reading the Room Rutger von Post Sallie Krawcheck Shirley Streshinsky (..)

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AUGUST 2, 2013

To read the complete article and others of his, please click here. * * * When Vivek Ranadivé decided to coach his daughter Anjali’s basketball team, he settled on two principles. Here is the first portion of an article written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker. The first was that he would never raise […].

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AUGUST 4, 2013

Lutz Success tips for a complex world + 2 free book commentaries Talent Managdement The Latest Findings on Workplace Happiness The New York Times The New Yorker Thomas Kranish Tom Butler-Bowdon Two invaluable tips on making an effective presentation'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 27, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "4 Essentials Every Team Needs" "Apple’s Trojan Horse" "Gettysburg and Memorial Day" "Six Numbers Reveal the Booming Business of Auto-Analytics" Adam Bryant Albert M. Muñiz Jr Ashok Subramanian (Liazon) in “The Corner Office” “What Starts with F and ends with K?”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Mojo Noun a power that may seem magical and that allows someone to be very effective, successful, etc. It […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 8, 2013

How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power their Organizations with Michael Slind Jeffrey T.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 27, 2012

How Winning Works: 8 Essential Leadership Lessons from the Toughest Teams on Earth Robyn Benincasa Harlequin Press (2012) “To strive, to seek, to find…and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses Not everyone agrees with Robyn Benincasa about which are the “toughest teams on earth” to which the subtitle refers.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Flight director Keith Comeaux, right, celebrates with Martin Greco after a successful landing of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory on August 5, 2012 in Pasadena, California. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Les McKeown for Inc.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Success Under Stress: Powerful Tools for Staying Calm, Confident, and Productive When the Pressure’s On Sharon Melnick The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh Who [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 26, 2011

To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * Many talent managers can boast of high-performers or A-players, but team collaboration and [.].

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JULY 23, 2011

Here is a recent post by Heidi Grant Halvorson at her website, The Science of Success. To read the complete article, sign up for a free newsletter, and check out the wealth of other resources, please click here. * * * Everyone needs feedback. It’s hard to get motivated to reach a goal or complete [.].

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APRIL 2, 2011

As I eagerly await the first of two “Final Four&# NCAA basketball games, I am again reminded of a special experience I had many years ago when I taught English and coached the varsity basketball team at a boarding school in New England. My first season as head coach had just ended. The final record [.].

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JUNE 3, 2015

Fred understands that business success starts in the heads and hearts of leadership—creating an enthusiastic, creative, […]. KRW International co-founder and principal, Fred Kiel, brings years of experience in leadership consulting from Fortune 500 companies and large, privately held organizations.

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JANUARY 21, 2012

workplace are either passively engaged (“mailing it in”) or actively disengaged, undermining the success of operations. Recent research by highly-reputable firms such as Gallup and TowersWatson suggest that, on average, at least 70% of employees in a U.S.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 9, 2011

Corporate teams that once banded together to push forward are now like mercenary gangs… Corporate culture has often become little more than a sea of managerial nomads, loyal to no one and motivated overwhelmingly by salary, convenience, and the size of the corporate gym… This [.].

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MAY 25, 2015

Jeff Wolf is one of America’s foremost executive business coaches, speakers and management consultants. Prestigious Leadership Excellence magazine named him one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders for his accomplishments in leadership development, managerial effectiveness and organizational productivity.

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