First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business Bruce Poon Tip BusinessPlus (2013) How and why core values and shared purpose can help any social enterprise to achieve sustainable profitability The most popular career advice includes the suggestion to do what you love and love what you do because what you love to […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Accountability versus Ownership “Be yourself [period] Everyone else is taken” Bibliomotion CIO Career Path Corporate Board Cost versus Innovation David C.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

What is your image of an inventor or innovator? Increasing evidence shows most innovation comes from two or more people…one of whom might even be a woman! We stereotype innovators as men and mainly in STEM* products. Fast-forward ~ Innovating Women launches today! Get Innovating Women. A man alone in a lab?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Perhaps that’s why listening, questioning, and moving others to act emerged as strong themes in the best business books offering managerial self-help this year, with the latest volumes from veteran authors Edgar H. Simple and profoundly wise, Humble Inquiry , the best business book of the year in this category, has the makings of a classic.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2013

You are learning constantly, and the pace of innovation is thrilling. I filed patents; I innovated. In its second-quarter earnings report in July 2013, Amazon said its ranks had swelled to 97,000 full-time and part-time employees, up 40 percent from the year before. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 14, 2013.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2014

In China, employee perceptions of inclusion accounted for 78% of innovation and 71% of team citizenship. In Mexico, they accounted for 51% of innovation and 60% of team citizenship. In India, they accounted for 62% of innovation and 43% of team citizenship. When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women. .

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

This is a guest post by Mark Babbitt, who I just spent 3 days with at #BIF10 , who also founded YouTern , one of THE best sites for career info. And get his book (with Ted Coiné ) " A World Gone Social ". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Read, enjoy and apply!!!! You are a Social Age job seeker. A digital native.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 22, 2013

I am delighted to host this guest post by my colleague Jennifer Kahnweiller in celebration of the launch of her excellent new book Quiet Influence: The Introvert”s Guide to Making a Difference. Jennifer is a workplace and career expert, international speaker and executive coach whose clients include General Electric Co.,

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

95 on the 2013 list, Mars boasts employees who love not only the products they make but also the office culture and the company's long-standing principles. For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches. Related articles.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 12, 2013

My friend, Doug Sundheim’s new book, Taking Smart Risks , is an early winner for 2013 Must Reads. Before I get to how great the book is, the story of how Doug and I met starts with taking a smart risk! We rarely look at the risk of NOT doing, of NOT innovating, of NOT trying. That was the start of our friendship!

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Source: The New Yorker, September 23, 2013. John Agno: When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women Related articles. The Innovative Leader "Out Thinks". Books Business Coaching Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Leadership Memes Women Work life' John Agno: Decoding the Executive Woman''s Dress Code.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In my new book, Endless Encores , a veteran CEO named Daphne spends an evening talking with an up-and-coming executive named Paul, helping him come to terms with the potential first failure he could be facing following a huge initial success. Careers can be short or long. That's a lot to bite off in a very few words. It's meant to be.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I’m privileged to have met a few of these people in my career – in fact, five “someones” recently at a warm, welcoming, generous visit to Enterasys’s headquarters in Andover, MA. To understand the power of this book, I need to tell you a story…of how I met them.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so. Adapting to change.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I believe the behavior of strategy tourists offer us a very useful career guide. Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career. Jeroen De Flander helps you to improve your strategy execution skills in his new book, The Execution Shortcut.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2013

We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. DAVID: Yeah.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Telisa Yancy – Executive vice president and champion of customers, employees, growth, and innovation for American Family Insurance.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Well, it depends on what you want and need out of your relationships and career. We can choose to look at failures, at least in our daily lives, as life practice, learning, a pilot project, as experimentation, or even a legitimate part of any innovation process. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Hess Learn or Die is a book everyone who is serious about learning and growth—personally or organizationally—should read. We need get off the career ladder and get onto a learning curve. Best Leadership Books of 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I first read the book during a break between quarters during my junior year in college. To this day, I say (only half-jokingly) that learning about Deming was both the best thing and the worst thing that ever happened in my career. Deming chastising some executives who showed up during the last hour of the last day. Mark Graban.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

A similar thing happened with one of the hospitals I featured in the first edition of my book Lean Hospitals , when a new CEO came in and made it clear that Lean was no longer needed. Mark is also the Vice President of Improvement & Innovation Services for the software company KaiNexus. Mark Graban.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Innovators such as Elon Musk and Jony Ive have become household names. Follow news developments related to industry or societal trends and read books about the process of creativity, such as David Burkus’s The Myths of Creativity or Michael Michalko’s Cracking Creativity. You need to share your ideas.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. His new book, co-authored with Karen Anderson is a fascinating look at Amazon’s record growth. My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.”

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This innovative text examines a range of simple, powerful strategies that businesses of any size or type can use to attract new customers. Here is an example of how one of our self-coaching books attracts career women to decide to purchase this career workbook guide: . . Tosi on April 1, 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard. Judith Warner starts her book on American motherhood, Perfect Madness , with the line, "I used to live in paradise and I didn't even know it." Men are increasingly sharing in this guilt.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). That in turn led to my first book, Unleashing the Killer App, which took an early look at how the Internet was changing the nature of business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

This was the advice I got from a marketing guru when I asked for his help with titling my second book. As David Burkus recently wrote, innovation isn''t an idea problem, but rather a recognition problem ; a lack of noticing the good ideas already there. Marilyn Monroe changed Ella Fitzgerald''s career. And you do not see others.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

Most of us have some crazy dream living inside of us — start a company, write a book, move to Bali. Her HBR book was named a best business book of 2012 by Fast Company, she gave an acclaimed TED talk, and she was given the Thinkers50 “Future Thinker” award in 2013. Mid-Career Crisis. Three things.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Our new book, Fear Your Strengths (2013), is a cautionary tale based on 50 years of combined experience assessing thousands of leaders and coaching hundreds of executives. Show us a strength and we''ll give you an example where its overuse has compromised performance and probably even derailed a career.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

New Law is filled with Big Law refugees, who’re siphoning off the work Big Law used to rely on to balance its books. Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. Big Law, meet New Law. This isn’t small potatoes. Burton Law LLC.)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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