First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 27, 2013

John Butman is founder and principal of the idea and content development firm Idea Platforms, Inc. and author of Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas (Harvard Business Review Press 2013).

Chemicals 80

Chemicals Drucker Review Influence 80

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I called the project 15 Coaches. For weeks I have been reviewing these applications. Given the overwhelmingly positive response I have received for this project, I have decided to expand the program from 15 to 100 coaches! The project is now called 100 Coaches and I am currently working on the selection of the next 75 coaches!

Disruptive Innovation 70

Disruptive Innovation Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO 70

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

The second recognition I received came from Kelly Services in their list of the “ Top 7 Blogs Every Manager Should Read ”, where I found myself being included alongside such preeminent sites as the Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Management Blog, The Gallup Blog, and Seth Godin to name a few.

Leadership 273

Leadership How To Stage-Gate Learning-by-Doing 273

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Sir Christopher Kelly, a former British senior civil servant, recently produced a damning report , which reviewed the events that led to the £1.5 s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. We continually find that most major transformation initiatives end up being managed as IT projects, with responsibility abdicated to the CIO.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. ” Develop: Let them improvise. .”

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

In 1991 he founded both the Wharton Leadership Program – initiating the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses – and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. In 2013 he published Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family (Wharton Digital Press). Stew also publishes at Harvard Business Review.

Learning-by-Doing 129

Learning-by-Doing Audience Open-book Innovation 129

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Although medical trainees spend years learning about physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry, there are few formal avenues through which trainees learn fundamental leadership skills, such as how to lead a team, how to confront problem employees, how to coach and develop others, and how to resolve conflict.

Training 13

Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have. As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs. So, where should you start? What the Experts Say.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency overseeing the technically troubled Affordable Care Act exchanges , has done a far better job concealing the details of its systems design, development, and deployment practices than producing working websites. Contingencies are constantly reviewed and appropriately revised.

Software 8

Software System Project Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The authors conclude that’s between 550 and 600 million people in developing G20 economies. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5%

Disruptive Innovation 22

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Recognizing that corporate responsibility can offer a company a competitive advantage today, we became interested in IBM as a pioneer in establishing a skills-based volunteerism initiative that also influences its talent and professional development strategies. So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects.

Intellectual Capital 13

Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Recognizing that corporate responsibility can offer a company a competitive advantage today, we became interested in IBM as a pioneer in establishing a skills-based volunteerism initiative that also influences its talent and professional development strategies. So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects.

Intellectual Capital 13

Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

” Technological developments are often interesting to discuss in relation to relevance. For instance, numerous smartphone apps have been developed that do not solve any actual problems. For instance, companies can have a project where they collaborate with users to develop or refine a specific product or feature.

Stress 10

Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and NEJM Group, exploring how pioneering providers are making change happen. But, working with the DPIs, the medical management team developed metrics relevant to specialists. Grant Project. Developing a new pathway for patients admitted for hip replacements.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Document Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. This bold strategic leap was, we found, in part facilitated by Nokia’s newly appointed board who actively attended to top managers’ emotions in 2012-2013.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. We later observed 36 hours of performance calibration reviews in three companies. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

Focus Group 8

Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Finally, in September 2013, faced with mounting social discontent, Premier Li Keqiang announced a sweeping new plan to try to address the country’s air quality problems. For almost two decades, the environment has been at the forefront of civil society development. Environmental activism in China is not new.

Environment 8

Environment Health Care Politics Document 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. A collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and NEJM Group, exploring how pioneering providers are making change happen. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. They would stimulate and ensure quality discussions in the communities by reviewing GHDonline’s content daily for precision and accuracy. (We How do you design a hospital?

Globalization 9

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Behind each partnership with an archistar, there is always a commissioned landmark project. Commissioned by the Vatican in 1998 and inaugurated in 2003, this project sealed Italcementi''s partnership with the American architect Richard Meier. This project called for cement walls able to filter light.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Self-aware Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The authors conclude that’s between 550 and 600 million people in developing G20 economies. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5%

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

That's a problem we can fix by focusing on creating skills and developing talent, instead of waiting for the elusive perfect hire. But a number of free or low-cost IT training services have emerged, such as Codecademy and Google Code University , which many companies use as talent development tools. One such example: veterans.

Discount 14

Discount Training Insurance Education 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team’s mission was to come up with new products for the European market — and then, significantly, to convince senior management in South Korea to invest in those projects — several of which, it turned out, required Samsung to deviate from their current strategy within the product categories in question. Consider going under the radar.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

From this perspective, the Harvard Business Review , The Atlantic , and The New York Times are classic “publishers” — they present highly-curated content, and their editors invest a lot of time in its creation. One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects.

Business Model 8

Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction. Win on merit.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

But talent acquisition and learning and development are altogether different — and they should never be done on the cheap. That’s the specialized insight required to develop the right sourcing and recruiting strategy. Examples include payroll, benefits, risk and compliance, and labor relations. That is not a vote of confidence.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Case in point, rather than keep Watson locked up in their research labs, they decided to release it to the world as a platform, to run experiments with a variety of organizations to accelerate development of natural language applications and services. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I The inventions, Antonio Regalado writes in Technology Review , range from automated cars to balloon-based data networks to images of keypads that can be projected onto a user''s hand. "They said, ''This kid is a fad.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Such communities are particularly useful in recruitment, hiring, talent development, or in defining employee retention policies. This can be top down, (the company set up a particular challenge or new product) or bottom up (the company allows employees to develop their own creative ideas, and then choose the most convenient ones).

Innovation 8

Innovation Diversity Bond Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Developing EQ is just as pertinent for the recent graduate who is starting out, as it is for the seasoned veteran. According to a 2013 study by American Express , EQ is one of the biggest predictors of performance in the workplace and a strong driver of leadership and personal excellence. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Consultative Self-aware Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. According to the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer , fewer than 20% of respondents believe leaders are actually telling the truth when confronted with a difficult issue in their organizations.

CIO 9

CIO Leadership Drucker Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2013, my partners and I conducted a combination of surveys and interviews with over 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings, and one of the things that repeatedly fell into the dislike column was politics. Need more evidence? However, she’s always out in the field.

Politics 8

Politics 360-Degree Feedback Skills Seminar 8