Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Tim Baker There is considerable and contestable debate in blogosphere and elsewhere about the viability of the performance review. Another group thinks that with some modifications, the performance review will be fine. What is one way that we can improve our team’s operations? Appraisals Performance Review Tim Baker'

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 1, 2024

How to help your team challenge assumptions for better creativity and problem-solving In our Courageous Cultures research, 67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” ” That’s not just a lack of imagination. What would you add as #8?

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 29, 2015

I am excited to announce that my latest book, Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work is now available! Here’s a few of the wonderful reviews Connection Culture has received: “A great leadership guide for leaders at every level.”. Former Chief of Naval Operations.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 26, 2011

One of the new features I will be adding to my blog this year is what I’m calling the “Coffee House Book Review”, which will feature reviews on books from the fields of leadership, management, marketing, and other areas of interest to those who are running or managing a business or organization.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 20, 2020

And you should develop the habit of reviewing your journal and turning your insights into action. . Use Your Journal for Personal After-Action Review. The military uses after-action reviews to critique operational performance. Capture your good ideas in your journal so that you can review them later. .

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 16, 2011

In their book, Moffitt and Dover define wikibrands as “a progressive set of organizations, products, services, ideas, and causes that tap into the powers of customer participation, social influence, and collaboration to drive business value”. Where the book really gets interesting is when the authors begin to discuss their “FLIRT model”.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

London Business School strategy professor, Freek Vermeulen , wrote in the Harvard Business Review , “One major reason for the lack of action is that ‘new strategies’ are often not strategies at all. What has become more clear about our business and the way we operate this year? For more information, visit www.davecoffaro.com.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Marty Parker attempts to tackle this “how” question in his book, Culture Connection: How Developing a Winning Culture Will Give Your Organization a Competitive Advantage. This book is written about ten Canadian companies, who recently won the “10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures” award. New York: McGraw Hill.

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CO2

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Entrepreneurs Operating System). From filling the bloggers, like me, with positive book reviews for Traction his book. EOS seems to simply skip over this fundamental on how it suggests a business should operate. The post Entrepreneurs Operating System (EOS) Lacks Traction appeared first on CO2 Coaching.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Les’ first book, Predictable Success , outlined organizational life cycles in an easy to comprehend model and provided suggestions for how to keep an organization from declining. Les outlines three types of senior leaders (Visionaries, Operators and Processors) and discusses the challenges of working for, working with or managing each.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. Share this information with your manager as a head start to your performance review.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 25, 2012

Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success Chip Conley Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2012) An “operating manual” from an “emotional concierge” for those who seek meaning in life on the other side of complexity I have read and reviewed Chip Conley’s previous books and with all due respect to them, [.].

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

For this reason, I was excited to read and review the updated version of Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers (full disclosure: I was provided a review copy by the publisher). When reading the book, my mind kept going back to Senge’s concept of mental models. In Sacred Cows , Robert Kriegel and David Brandt explore change.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 31, 2024

Dig into the book, Talent , to learn the case studies of Johnson & Johnson, Hemnet, Argus Media, HireRight, Vishal Retail, Depop and Oak Street Health. Integrate Strategy, Talent, and Operating Plan Question: Why is it so difficult for companies to recruit the right leadership team? Build “A” teams and make tough decisions.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Robertson enterprise architecture Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Future of the CIO Role Futurist versus Archivist Harvard Business Review Press How to become a CIO "for all seasons" IT and Business Paradox Jeanne W.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

For this reason, I was excited to read and review the updated version of Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers (full disclosure: I was provided a review copy by the publisher). When reading the book, my mind kept going back to Senge’s concept of mental models. Leadership book review change mental models'

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Les’ first book, Predictable Success , outlined organizational life cycles in an easy to comprehend model and provided suggestions for how to keep an organization from declining. Les outlines three types of senior leaders (Visionaries, Operators and Processors) and discusses the challenges of working for, working with or managing each.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Repeatability: Build Enduring Businesses for a World of Constant Change Chris Zook and James Allen Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why simplifying operations, sharpening focus, and liberating energy can be an antidote to escalating complexity As Chris Zook and James Allen indicate in the Introduction, they share an interest in why so few (..)

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QAspire

APRIL 8, 2024

In their new book, The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make The Right Things Easier and The Wrong Things Harder , the authors explore what creates these operational obstacles in the workplace end what leaders can do about it.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 27, 2011

In a moment, I’ll tell you how to get a free copy of this book courtesy of the authors and LDRLB. The book itself focuses on processes that business leaders can utilize to discover the market’s needs and develop a plan to exploit them. The strongest points of the book are the case studies.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 2, 2011

That’s the mantra by which Joey Asher operates, and he wrote the book 15 Minutes Including Q&A: A Plan to Save the World from Lousy Presentations to help solve the problem. “Most business presentations stink. Really Stink. They stink in a way that drains souls.” From now on, all presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 21, 2012

Beyond Performance Management: Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Prsctices for Superior Business Performance Jeremy Hope and Steve Player Harvard Business Review Press (2012) Invaluable advice for results-driven, principled managers at all levels and in all areas of business operations Jeremy Hope and Steve Player provide a crystal clear (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

As I began to read this book, I was reminded of the title of […]. Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Actually, what we should fear are complacency and self-satisfaction as well as the assumption that “just good enough” really is.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2014

I presented my synopsis of Accelerate yesterday at the First Friday Book Synopsis. Harvard Business Review Press, 2014). Here is a brief summary of what John Kotter says in his new book, Accelerate: Whatever is working well now is threatened now. The pace of […].

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Operate to a Budget. You’re going to need to operate to a budget , meaning that you should take into account how much money you have available to spend within your business and where you want to attribute it. Manage Your Books. Here are some key steps you’re going to need to take to do this well!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Modern, green vehicles signal you to operate an up-to-date, sustainable business using the latest models packed with helpful instructional tech and safety features. Leverage Social Media and Review Platforms Actively build up your profiles and ratings on platforms popular with local students, like Facebook, Instagram, and Yelp.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a rather quick/short summary of key highlights of 2022 for me: Book Illustrations The year started with the buzz around my friend Krish Shankar’s new book “ Catalyze: Power up your people ecosystem ” that was released in December 2021. The book contains visual chapter summaries in form of my sketchnotes.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: Linking Strategy and Operational Excellence to Achieve Superior Performance Jeffrey K. Liker and James K.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 25, 2012

The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company’s Human Capital Investments Jac Fitz-enz AMACOM (2010) A brilliant explanation of “the first holistic, predictive management model and operating system for the HR function” Those who have read one or more of Jac Fitz-enz’s previously published books know that (..)

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Upon co-authoring his 2001 book, Profit Beyond Measure , (with Anders Bröms) he achieved this notoriety by dedicating himself to offering interested listeners and readers an alternative solution, which he refers to as Management by Means or MBM.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition Steven J. Spear McGraw-Hill (2009) The power of causal mechanisms that can drive a continuously self-improving system Clayton Christensen’s high praise of Steven Spear and this book is well-deserved.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Dig into the book, Talent , to learn the case studies of Johnson & Johnson, Hemnet, Argus Media, HireRight, Vishal Retail, Depop and Oak Street Health. Integrate Strategy, Talent, and Operating Plan Question: How has the pandemic affected companies getting the right leadership team in place to reach the company’s growth goals?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2012

The Branded Mind: What Neuroscience Really Tells Us about the Puzzle of the Brain and the Brand Erik du Plessis , with Nigel Hollis and Graham Page Kogan Page (2011) A travel guide and operations manual for exploration and management of the “Damasian paradigm shift” With assistance contributed by Nigel Hollis and Graham Page, Erik [.]. (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2011

How NET PROMOTER Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World Fred Reichheld with Rob Markey Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Here is an open-source system whose “engine” can drive profitable growth This is a revised and expanded second edition of a book published in 2006. The Ultimate Question 2.0:

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 19, 2014

Years ago I learned to draw reading Betty Edwards’ book, “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.” This review serves a second purpose. Leadership Operations & Strategy How to Structure your Company How to Structure your Organization Leadership and Org Charts' Chief Executive Officer, N2Growth.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2013

Because, in his new book, McBean, a successful businessman with four decades of ownership experience, explains the essential Seven Facts of Business Life and the Five Levels of Business Success. Thanks to the book publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

High-performance leaders operate with a growth mindset and are great communicators. A growth mindset means they operate with: 1. They operate with an abundant, as opposed to a scarcity, mindset. Titled Leaders” operate from a scarcity mindset. Curiosity 3. I have grown up around high-performance sport. We are not.

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