You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

I saw the power of language come to life earlier this summer when I made an eye-opening visit to a day-long orientation held every six weeks or so for new employees of Quicken Loans, the online mortgage lender based in Detroit and owned by high-profile billionaire Dan Gilbert.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 2, 2011

Managing & Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan was really fun to write. And, it helps if you are a Gilbert & Sullivan fan too. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. So here’s another look at Four Reasons Why Civility in the Workplace is a Must.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

An ideal response involves a portfolio and pipeline of growth strategies — again, started early enough that they have time to iterate, incubate, and grow. Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here. Place multiple bets. Don't go it alone. This is hard stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

No strategy is static. Our colleague Clark Gilbert described more than a decade ago a great irony of disruption. Gilbert’s research showed how executives who perceive threats are rigid in response; those who see opportunities are expansive. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

This knowledge led to a new strategy for the struggling company. For a study entitled "The Language that Gets People to Give," Georgia Tech assistant professor Eric Gilbert and doctoral candidate Tanushree Mitra designed software to scrape the text from the thousands of Kickstarter projects launched since June 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2011

This strategy can be seen clearly in politics, where politicians often make decisions based on what will help them get re-elected. Psychologist Dan Gilbert and his colleagues have done work exploring how people's lives are affected by negative events. By contrast, most of us tend to be forward-looking.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 9, 2012

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. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

I can guarantee you that not a single one of them graduated with the deliberate strategy of getting divorced and raising children who would become estranged from them.". These concepts will be explained in more detail in a fall Harvard Business Review article written by my colleagues Matt Eyring, Clark Gilbert, and Dick Foster.).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan. Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway mu­sical industry and biotechnology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

As long as it doesn't fall on its face, it can chug along with its predetermined strategy. Since that strategy is likely to be wrong, the lack of adjustment is bad, not good. The autonomous business will typically draw funding via the annual budgeting processes. Too much capital can be a curse. Governance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

New tools and strategies. Retooling your existing sales or content capability may be less effective ultimately than building new parallel capabilities designed specifically to pursue digital strategies; what feels like a redundant investment might be a critical enabler of successful competitive response. Insight Center.

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