First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders [.]. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. Instead of passive subscribers, it created “communities of friends” who generated new story ideas and collaborated with Fast Company staff to develop themes of the “new management revolution.”. Informal leadership Managing people'

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Cooperperson

MARCH 1, 2022

In that opening, lies our power to choose what’s next. 2013) When the mind is focused on the present, we are typically happier than when the mind is wandering (Killingworth & Gilbert 2010). Allowing yourself to take in and really feel one deep breath relaxes tension, embodies calm, and helps you to get centered.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 27, 2010

Before getting thrown in head first to the world of assessment, I conducted countless management interviews using the same toolkit of questions: what are your strengths, what are your weaknesses, blah, blah, blah etc. Spending more time upfront on your interviewing can save you lots of time, money (and tears!) down the line.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.” Why did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

It's one of the hardest things in the world to do, probably because it runs so counter to our powerful and primal need to feel safe, loved, and successful. Negative events do affect us," as psychologist Daniel Gilbert put it in his book, Stumbling on Happiness , "but they generally don't affect us as much or for as long as we expect them to."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. By showing the power of scale economics, he ushered in an era where behemoths created processes to spread their businesses around the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Aside from space limitations on creating new roadways or power grids, cities can't afford to shut down existing facilities that people rely on in order to install new ones. Sensors in roadways can predict congestion, pinpoint issues like leaks in water pipes and help prepare for potential outages in power grids.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

But as employees, most of us still have to put up with quaint, joyless systems for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, or expense reports. Rituals combine the power of consistency and habits with the weight of emotional significance. Use rituals.

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Tim Milburn

MAY 8, 2014

How can you tap into the power of a setback — and make it work for you? In Ambition: How We Manage Success and Failure Throughout Our Lives , Gilbert Brim observes that “sometimes we don’t know we are losing until the very end.” “But I have never had trouble with senior management,” she said.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The designers were focused on creating better user experiences, while the engineers were focused on speed, quality, and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Yale School of Management Professor Dick Foster notes that a single firm cannot innovate faster than the market in which it participates. I didn't want to burst the leader's bubble, but I gently explained to her that what she said was actually quite troubling. The reality is she is fighting a tough battle with one hand behind her back.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Its powerful search engine serves as a platform that instantaneously brings others’ content to users. There’s a reason Innosight Advisor Clark Gilbert, who demonstrated the value of this approach as he transformed the Deseret News and Digital Media, calls this the toughest problem in business today.

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