First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 8, 2012

Ask yourself: What if any of our key people got flattened by a cement truck en route back to the office from lunch? It’s really quite simple. Other than shock, denial, grief, and sadness, as well as condolences to family members, how else would the organization respond? Whatever its size or nature may be, every [.].

Organization 80

Organization Delegation Skills Blog 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The word’s meaning “a turning towards” (in Greek, en+tropein), “content transformative” or “transformative content.” In 1865, a German physicist, Rudolph Clausius (1822-1888), coined the term entropy during his research on heat.

Content 85

Content Energy System Review 85

QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

. - - - - - Acknowledgements: The Rainmaker ‘Fab Five’ Blog Picks of the Week - 2010 Rewind Edition includes my posts. QAspire Blog was featured in Management Improvement Carnival Blog Review by Wally Bock at Three Star Leadership Blog. Thabo Hermanus´s last blog. Maria Payroll´s last blog.

Learning Organization 160

Learning Organization Organization Senge Blog 160

Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

It's the unsalted, flavorless residue deposited en masse as businesses churn away. The solution is machine learning —computers automatically discovering patterns and developing new knowledge by furiously feeding on modern society's greatest and most potent unnatural resource : data. Data can seem like such dry, uninteresting stuff.

Learning-by-Doing 277

Learning-by-Doing Insurance Wireless Discount 277

Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

Subscribe to his podcast , read his blog , and follow him on Twitter @bpnutrition. You know the type: They work hard and don’t take shortcuts en route to becoming a fresh, new voice. She’s on Twitter @elisemitch and she regularly writes a blog that will inspire and enlighten you as a leader.

Rogers 61

Rogers PR Open-book Core Competence 61

Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

Subscribe to his podcast , read his blog , and follow him on Twitter @bpnutrition. You know the type: They work hard and don’t take shortcuts en route to becoming a fresh, new voice. She’s on Twitter @elisemitch and she regularly writes a blog that will inspire and enlighten you as a leader.

Rogers 40

Rogers PR Open-book Core Competence 40

Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2016

If you allow for substantive, not inconsequential, decisions to be made by the empowered, and overcome any fear you might have of delegating some big decisions as well, you are on the way to smartly implementing autonomy and avoiding some of the most basic pitfalls en route. 2) Have an Agreement for Autonomy in Place.

Delegation 173

Delegation Construction Fashion Report 173

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Frank is Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Frank is a monthly contributor to the ”Economic View” column in The New York Times and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. He has also served as a Peace Corps volunteer [.].

Management 80

Management Price Morale Technology 80

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

Many of these "experts" adopted single-discipline approaches to developing insights; they were, to use the language of my prior HBR blog post , "specialists." Of course, the ideal would be to develop expertise in dozens of domains en route to becoming a leader, but that may make for a very long career trajectory.) My friend Michael W.

Uncertainty 12

Uncertainty Tversky Kahneman Self-aware 12