Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 18, 2014

I consider those people my heroes.” Mr. Fred Rogers. John Hunter of the Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog brings us Encouraging Curiosity in Kids. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” ” Then there are those who see the need and respond.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 24, 2016

The most interesting thing about my life is that I handed a cake to Roy Rogers when I was 10, I accidentally met Elvis Presley at an airport, and I was trapped in Hurricane Katrina and got out by a tugboat. Listen To The Answers From Leadership Podcast. Podcast Show Notes. Ann, what else do you want listeners to know about you?

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Conference Leadership Discount Insurance 120

Deming Institute

JANUARY 28, 2019

The engineers studied only the defective tires to determine the causes of defects. A recent paper by Ron Snee and Roger Hoerl, “Show Me the Pedigree,” ( Quality Progress, January 2019, pp. Deming provided many examples of how failure to think from a whole system view leads to incomplete information and wrong conclusions.

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Deming System Sample Analysis 44

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. . “The fellow who can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

For several months prior to launch Roger Boisjoly’s written memo’s predicted: “The result could be a catastrophe of the highest order, loss of human life,”. The O-Ring engineer with no title, no authority and no rank did his very best to speak up, he did his very best to lead.

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Energy Learning-by-Doing Rogers Follow-up 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

It’s hard to picture tennis great Roger Federer or Olympian gold medalist Michael Phelps being successful if they didn’t enjoy tennis or swimming and were just doing it to be famous. Now go optimize your talent — it’s the engine that drives strategy execution. That’s a lot of time invested in something if you don’t enjoy it.

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Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser. I'm at a loss when it comes to managing Cynthia," Roger confessed. Roger is the oldest son of an electrical engineer in the Midwest. What Roger really didn't want to waste was the firm's resources.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 27, 2019

Rogers This one must be from the 1950s. The Practical Pyromaniac: Build Fire Tornadoes, One-Candlepower Engines, Great Balls of Fire, and More Incendiary Devices by William Gurstelle Now, this one is right up my alley. Teach Your Wife to Be a Widow by Donald I. And why does this husband need to teach his wife how to be a widow?

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

For several months prior to launch Roger Boisjoly’s written memo’s predicted: “The result could be a catastrophe of the highest order, loss of human life,”. The O-Ring engineer with no title, no authority and no rank did his very best to speak up, he did his very best to lead.

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Energy Learning-by-Doing Rogers Follow-up 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Twelve-year-old Roger Ruiz was expelled from his public school in rural Nicaragua. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers. And what does President Roger want to be when he grows up? An engineer, he says, because engineers help other people solve problems.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The difference is illustrated by a classic joke about old-time movie dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He led Ginger Rogers around the dance floor flawlessly. But Ginger Rogers was an advanced leader. Fred Astaire was certainly a great leader. He had a goal. He could see where he was going. He was clearly in charge.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist.

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CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

For example, Mauricio started as an engineer in his manufacturing firm, moved up the ranks, and 10 years later was promoted to president of European operations. Roger Schwarz. When individuals join a senior leadership team, they are often exposed to topics they’re unfamiliar with. You and Your Team Series. Stu Heinecke.

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Long-term Short-term Strategy Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Roger Schwarz. And when they do, leaders are more inclined to use power responsibly. You and Your Team Series. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting? Elizabeth Grace Saunders.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

In many companies, the approach seems to be a combination of formalized risk tracking and cultural engineering. Roger Martin's forthcoming book with A.G. There is little I see about the practice of risk management today that is particularly helpful. Lafley, Playing to Win, will be. published in February 2013.

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Risk Management Rogers Learning-by-Doing Document 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Last month, Fox News agreed to pay Gretchen Carlson $20 million to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, the network’s former Chairman and CEO, who resigned in the summer. And we continue to hear stories about sexual harassment in academia , medicine , science , and engineering driving women out of STEM.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Or that this approach doesn’t sit well with the more engineering-oriented innovation thinkers whose work forms a parallel stream of thinking in HBR (and perhaps represent the other half of the crowd in Catmull’s polls). But even here, while the steps may be minimal, they are not all that simple.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

With investment bankers, civil engineers or internet software CEOs, the acting angle doesn't often get them doing really effective work. Even leaders who prefer a couch to a tennis court tend to rise to the challenge of approaching things like Venus Williams or Roger Federer — step by step, practiced move by practiced move.

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Sports Rogers Storytelling Seminar 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

It's an ingenuity engine. by Joe Knight, Roger Thomas, and Brad Angus, with John Case. Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football. Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas. by Grant McCracken. A Culturematic is a little machine for making culture.

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Books Handbook Rogers Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

But where are the fire engines? But, as Roger Martin has pointed out , it wasn't genuine to begin with; a scoreboard whose points are more and more divorced from the reality of human prosperity. What's the breadth of your vision for change? It's time to get not just serious, but maybe even a little bit radical.

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Budgeting Rogers Crisis Politics 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

To do this, she must address a couple of issues: 1) Engineers may "delight in advertising they''re wearing the new device," but most other people don''t want to look like a weirdo resembling "the character Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager"; and 2) People don''t generally want to be reminded that they''re constantly plugged in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Platforms of engagement, based on human experiences, are the new loci of value creation and therefore the new engines of capitalism. The fundamental distinction of an enterprise that starts with human experiences to create value is that it must, by definition, engage the individual in both defining and delivering value.

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Despite conceptually understanding that this change mandates fresh strategic approaches, Roger Martin (among others) has highlighted the mistakes companies continue to make by relying on processes and tools honed in a differently paced era. In 1999, Kodak’s photography business peaked at $10.3 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

In the meantime, we had successfully engineered sensor technology that allowed our residential ceiling fans to respond to the indoor environment, including changes in temperature and humidity, as well as occupants’ motion. .”

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. Their mission to increase the number of women engineers led to an entirely new kind of product that combines storytelling and building.

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Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 30, 2012

Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work Michael Michalko New World Library (2011) How and why conceptual blending of dissimilar subjects, ideas, and concepts is the most important factor in creative thinking Those who have read any of Michael Michalko’s previously published books, notably Cracking Creativity and Thinkertoys, already (..)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

These businesses seem committed to doing what they already know, and despite Roger Martin's guidance that you can't analyze your way to growth , companies continue to think of growth creation using the rearview mirror. Peg people's bonuses to the new projects.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Roger Martin and Sally Osberg argue in their new book, Getting Beyond Better , that the answer is social entrepreneurs, who target unjust and unsustainable systems — or “equilibria” — and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Photo courtesy of Riders for Health. Adapted from.

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Entrepreneur Health Care Transportation System 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2018

Yesterday, the blog’s founder, Faye Rogers posted her Q & A with me regarding my recent novel, The Circumstantial Enemy. A Daydreamer’s Thoughts is a blog that consists of book reviews, film reviews, book articles, film articles, and author interviews. She began the interview by asking what I enjoy most about writing books. .

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The sad news of the passing of Roger Bannister , the first human being to run a four-minute mile, got me thinking about his legacy—not just as one of the great athletes of the past century, but as an innovator, a change agent, and an icon of success. Was there a genetic engineering experiment that created a new race of super runners?

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Rogers Benchmarking Sports Business Model 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

If you’re technologically inclined, it’s not difficult to strip DRM off digital stuff and play your media wherever and however you want—just like if you’re mechanically inclined, it’s not hard to remove limiters from car engines. Keurig customers bought their coffee pods from Rogers Family Company.

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Download Rogers eBook Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Our lead engineer Jixuan Wang made his own prediction: he was 70% confident he could build the feature in eight engineering weeks. Our engineer was at 75% confidence we’d hit our goal, and our lead from partnerships was at 70%. Almost half of participants saw 10% increases in their viewership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Roger Perlmutter, the president of Merck Research Laboratories, suggested that a good start would be to “ scrape off the top five levels of management , including myself.” The case of Svenska Handelsbanken is illustrative. Its return on equity has surpassed that of its European peers every year since 1971.

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Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Or is one more a pawn in a rigged game of self-destruction; a mark in a ponzi scheme; a dull-eyed pack animal to which the engines of extraction are yoked? Roger Martin has proposed that the overweening pursuit of shareholder value be upgraded to the pursuit of human value.

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