Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was always my friend. We were all taught in Supervision 101 that managers are directors of stuff—policies, materials, numbers, and systems; while leaders are influencers of people. Virgin Galactic founder and CEO Sir Richard Branson is not seeking to just build a faster passenger aircraft. And what if.

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Taylorism Taylor Storytelling Airlines 303

Career Advancement

MAY 15, 2017

Client Taylor Asks: I asked my employees for honest feedback on my performance, and a few of them said I’m too authoritative in the way I speak to them. Coach Joel Answers: When David Steiner became CEO of Waste Management, Inc., In fact, that’s one of the hallmarks of an ineffective manager. Misty Copeland.

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Career Advancement

MAY 15, 2017

Client Taylor Asks: I asked my employees for honest feedback on my performance, and a few of them said I’m too authoritative in the way I speak to them. Coach Joel Answers: When David Steiner became CEO of Waste Management, Inc., In fact, that’s one of the hallmarks of an ineffective manager. Misty Copeland~.

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Power Leadership Taylorism Taylor 149

CO2

AUGUST 17, 2010

Interview with Charlie Firestone and Vivian who is the CEO of NPR. Vivian Schiller CEO of NPR at the Aspen Institute 2010 gives insights into the importance of New Literacy. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). We are faced with a tsunami of information.

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Schiller CEO Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 98

Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 23, 2014

In this episode, Dotty Posto, President of Posto Management Consulting, shares how to use creativity to design breakthrough change communication. Modernizing Change Management with Agile and Lean Practices. Managing Change in Today’s Dynamic Global Economy. How to Avoid and Manage Change-Related Overload.

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Taylorism Taylor Agility Influence 105

Lead on Purpose

MARCH 8, 2010

CEOs are praised for their vision. Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. Product managers have to be looking months or years into the future. management), the work the PMs did to make the release happen is long forgotten. management), the work the PMs did to make the release happen is long forgotten.

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Taylorism Taylor Ethics Godin 145

Lead on Purpose

MAY 18, 2010

What struck me the first time I listened to this podcast is how beautifully these principles apply to product management, to leadership and to life in general. He has proven this as a coach and as a successful CEO. During this conversation Larry shares the strategies that have made his teams successful through the years.

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Strategy Sports Ethics Loyalty 196

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Jim Burke, former Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson Filed under: Leadership , Trust , Uncategorized Tagged: | business , relationships , Speed of Trust , Stephen M.R. Covey , success « Keeping the best A new Leadership Development Carnival » Like Be the first to like this post. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 26, 2010

In his book The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit , author Nat Stoddard (with help from Claire Wyckoff) investigates the complex topic of assuring smooth executive transitions, with their primary focus at the CEO level. Whether you’re a CEO or an intern, you have the opportunity to lead.

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Review Books Taylorism Taylor 143

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Thanks BestColleges.org for selecting my blog as one of the “25 Best Management & Leadership Blogs of 2011″ [link] #. Check out the special offer to get free seats to Bill Taylor’s online presentation, courtesy of @ Leadershipfreak [link] #. A Simple Way to Manage Your Time [link] # productivity #.

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Drucker Decisionmaking Taylorism Taylor 112

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: Dee Hock’s quote nicely defines the product management perspective. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest in yourself; after all, you –your skills, talent, abilities, etc.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Covey drives this point home nicely in his book The Speed of Trust : I’ll never forget what one CEO said about the risk of investing in a focused training initiative for his company. Don’t let the cost of training deter you from training your people. Stephen M.R.

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Maturity Covey Training Taylorism 159

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Prior to assuming CEO responsibilities for US Cellular in 1999 Jack had created a “virtual organization&# where he and other executives provided leadership to the company; he empowered their employees to make decisions and run the business.

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Review Books Ethics Competitive Advantage 100

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

This is the primary responsibility of product managers. Yahoo’s new CEO Carol Bartz has shown the need to drive ideas to strategies from the highest levels of the company. At Autodesk (where she was CEO for 14 years) she delivered annual sales growth of 13% and increased the stock value more than eight times. .&#

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products. Unfortunately, my gesture was rebuffed and the union decided to strike.

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Committee Automotive Ethics Productivity 140

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You can hear the tension in the voice of many managers and leaders who call to ask for advice. Taylor Swift Workplace performance reviews Cheering on a sports team that’s not your usual team Whether hens lay eggs with or without the presence of a rooster (No joke! How did THAT Get Political? Do you have any advice?”

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Politics How To Learning-by-Doing Survey 475

CO2

JULY 20, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Entrepreneur Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Taylorism 88

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. What can be done, in the spirit of Bill’s admonishment, is to stop getting tangled up in all of the variations, nuances, tools, techniques, models, frameworks, and paradigms of innovation.

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Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

It was written not long before I became CEO of Google, and its message is one that truly influenced me as CEO — and continues to influence me today. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. HBR Lives Where Taylorism Died. The Value of Being Original in an Age of Knock-Offs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. HBR Lives Where Taylorism Died.

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CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. by Bill Taylor. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. Better Time Management Is Not the Answer. Management is chaotic by nature. How the science of attention blindness can help you improve your innovative thinking. by James Allworth.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

CEOs are thirsty for insight from the front lines. My friend is a mid-level manager, and he’s very observant and bright. He has a ton of insight and perspective about Salesforce that Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce, would be better off knowing. I saw this the other day in a friend who works for Salesforce.

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Power Tips CEO Taylorism 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

After bouncing the concept off of several industry CEOs, but still unsure whether he could pull it off, last summer Dirk began to recruit speakers for what he called a Provocation Summit. According to several CEOs who I've worked with, this is the most significant cultural and business challenge that they see in their organizations.

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Storytelling Kaplan Taylorism Taylor 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

They will invent innovative ways to explain away poor performance ("Oh, problems with our vendors affected our customers and depressed our scores," "The market was down," or "The weather was bad."). The creativity that should be going toward finding innovative ways to wow customers often finds a different and more dangerous outlet.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition Dennis N. Perkins with Margaret P. Holtman, Paul R. Kessler, and Catherine McCarthy The Yale Book of Quotations Fred R. Shapiro, [.].

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McCarthy Blog Review Books 95

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

As I said in my original post, the great sweep of business and innovation has increased the power of the individual and the small team over the lumbering her. Or, as one of the commenters on my post suggested, one Shakespeare is worth more than 100 Bill Taylors. The "smart" do, in fact, take from the "strong."

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One of the pioneers of challenge-based innovation has been the XPRIZE, and I wrote recently about the growing number of student teams that are participating in competitions. But if trained the right way, juniors have tremendous potential,” József Boda, CEO of CodeCool told me. Finding heroes. ” Broad experience.

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Education Software Skills Engineering 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A mid-level manager in this 5,000-employee hospital, she is leading a 70-member group on patient flow as part of a larger organizational effort. Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. I found a few defining characteristics: 1.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

WILLIAM: Well sometimes I wonder myself, but I am the president of a startup university, we’re about two years old now, by the name of California Institute of Advanced Management. I said, “It’s still this amazing voice that I think keeps the discussion of management elevated at the level that it should be.”

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Drucker Class Armstrong Books 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

Anytime a CEO, quarterback, engineer or author is paid ridiculous amounts of money, dozens of investors, armchair quarterbacks, and scholars jump in to debate the value of individual contributors versus teams. I have heard plenty of people argue that no one individual is worth the price of many.

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Team Engineering Competitive Advantage Taylorism 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

The Mating Dance Risk and the Unmarried CEO Knowledge@Wharton Why, exactly, is the CEO of your company embarking on that daring capital expenditure that''s got analysts shaking their heads? It''s also possible that single CEOs are generally less risk averse because they don’t have families to worry about.

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