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Contemplative Leadership: Finding Time to Think

CEO Insider

Maxwell In the Harvard Business Review article How CEOs Manage Time, the authors report CEOs spend a quarter of their work on people and relationships, another quarter on functional and business unit reviews, 16% on organization and culture, and 21% on strategy. “The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.” ― John C.

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My New Book, Double the Love - Now Available on Amazon!

Management Craft

Johna Campbell, Senior Manager of HR, Kollmorgen. “If Kathleen Goodman, Director, Strategy, Planning and Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. Books Management' I already found three things I''m planning to try at work on Monday!”

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans. In particular, large companies want to partner with small firms that have developed advanced, game-changing technologies. Hardly an encouraging finding. The bad news?

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Answering Your Questions About P&G and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone.

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My New Book, Double the Love - Now Available on Amazon!

Management Craft

Johna Campbell, Senior Manager of HR, Kollmorgen. “If Kathleen Goodman, Director, Strategy, Planning and Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. If you want to transform your teams and get them to perform better, you need to know the secret.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers.

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Have a Question for Procter & Gamble CTO Bruce Brown?

Harvard Business Review

Next Monday I am going to be facilitating a panel discussion in Singapore on "Asia Fuelling Global Innovation." In an effort to increase the panel's interactivity, I wanted to offer readers a chance to ask Brown questions. Some of you might recall that he joined me on a November webinar, and told a great story about the Gillette Guard.

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