First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tony Wagner that first appeared in Education Week (November 11, 2003). Don’t let the publication date fool you. If anything, his recommendations are even more urgently needed now than they were then. To read the complete article, please click here. © Tony Wagner * * [.].

Education 75

Education Article Simon System 75

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits?

CEO 287

CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 287

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That is until they learned about an emerging technology—DVDs. Now we were going to have to grow, and rapidly, and that took a different skill set entirely. His self-knowledge made is easier for him to know when it was time to go as he eventually did in 2003 not long after Netflix went public. Then the game was on.

Learning-by-Doing 43

Learning-by-Doing Entrepreneur Wilde CEO 43

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” As in any subject, developing innovation skills requires learning some fundamentals and mastering them through repetition.

Innovation 16

Innovation Education Survey Training 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8% to 1% per year if not for joint ventures that allowed for transfers of knowledge and technology, as opposed to domestic innovation. It implies that TFP driven by innovation and technological progress (independent of foreign investment) accounts for about 5 to 14% of GDP growth.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas of the Washington Post write , "In particular, [labor force entry has] suffered among women — and it''s really suffered among young women — who are a lot less likely to enter the labor force than they were in 2002 and 2003.". The question is: why?

Education 9

Education GDP Report Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Then-chairman Glenn Hubbard, for example, pushed for and got a reduction in taxes on dividends in 2003. This was surprising because the basic supply-and-demand model of economics teaches that, when you raise the price of something (in this case, low-skilled labor) demand for it will go down. to $9 and index it to inflation after that.

Price 10

Price Policies Fashion Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

He had the critical but delicate leadership role of facilitating networks of internal and external technicians, specialists, and managers to address final technical problems and approve launches in the wake of the Columbia disaster in 2003. Collaboration Leadership'

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

” Human capital champions in higher education and industry typically prize knowledge over skills. Crassly put, leaders and managers get knowledge and education while training and skills go to those who do the work. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003.

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. The Promotion Paradox. The Careful-What-You-Wish-For Paradox.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley was built on amazing products, not on stellar leadership skills. In fact, veterans of some of the world’s most successful tech companies often look with skepticism, even disdain, on efforts to build strong management skills. It’s more important to spend time deciding which features to omit than which to add.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

By 2003 I could no longer speak intelligibly or walk, and any muscle control became more difficult as the disease progressed. Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm. Marion Barraud for HBR. I was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in 2001.

Argyris 8

Argyris Document Construction Learning-by-Doing 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

As I’ve said in other posts, great leaders have the innate ability to call on the right skills in a contextually and environmentally appropriate fashion. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

Definition 313

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 313

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. Amazon has almost single-handedly bankrupted Borders.

Business Model 62

Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 62

Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

When Robert Greifeld was asked to take the helm of Nasdaq in 2003 to execute a turnaround, he came with a new story. Overhaul Technology 5. Change the culture, and inevitably, people with skill sets more apropos to the next context suddenly stand out. A very clear and well-told story. Get the Right People on Board 2.

Organization 257

Organization Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Technology 257

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In the paper, Scott Wallsten of the Technology Policy Institute attempts to measure the offline activities that are crowded out by our online recreation throughout the day, using data from The American Time Use Survey, a government survey that, since 2003, has been asking U.S. citizens how they spend their time.

Survey 9

Survey Video Productivity Products 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space. This approach is best supported by simulations, assessments, onboarding programs, and other means that technology is making less costly. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space. This approach is best supported by simulations, assessments, onboarding programs, and other means that technology is making less costly. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Building off US-inspired steel-based technology, we believe that it's possible to design, build, deliver, and erect affordable multi-tier tower housing, addressed squarely to lower class sections of the Indian demographic.

Suri 14

Suri Construction Class EBITDA 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Partnership skills. Management and leadership skills. Market focus.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

And current recycling technology is limited. Service and maintenance that extend the lifespan of products create local, labor-intensive, skilled jobs — jobs that can't be shipped overseas. automaking industry currently employs 786,500 people , down from 1,136,500 in 2003. Recycling aluminum requires around 1.7

Resources 8

Resources McKinsey Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. For the 274 companies started in 2003 or later that have reached unicorn status , half are in the U.S., and nearly two-thirds of the 148 U.S.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

What stops skilled, motivated people from making health care better, more integrated, and ultimately more sustainable? The first clinical specialties started adopting ProvenCare in 2003, and the organization has been working through the rest for the past 12 years. But no country is delivering these transformational changes.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Both Singapore and Israel have liberal immigration policies for skilled workers. Ultimately dubbed the Technology Incubation Scheme (in Singapore, a scheme is a good thing), the program helped bring a flood of diverse investors into the country by offering to put up 85% of the capital in a start-up when investors put in 15%.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8