First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

One of them is Judy Gilbert, director of Talent at Google. Here’s what Gilbert has to say: [.]. When conducting research for his latest book, Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner interviewed hundreds of thought leaders in creativity, innovation, and talent management.

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Six Disciplines

JUNE 27, 2014

Gilbert, in their article " What Really Drives Strategy ?". BOTTOMLINE: Interestingly enough, the "disconnect" between strategy and how resources are allocated, as identified in this HBR article, is precisely why it''s critical to align your resources and systems. Bower and Clark G. Their assertion?

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Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2010

Apparently, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert thought the same thing because it wasn’t long before he had posted a scathing open letter to the Cavs’ fans on the team’s official web site. In contrast to the seedy and classless drama engineered by James and Gilbert, this weekend marked the passing of Bob Sheppard.

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Class Gilbert Leadership Letter 135

Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2021

The County established a tier-based system for mechanics to advance within the organization. ” says Gilbert Riviera, a 15-year lead mechanic. Establishing a tiered system with rewards for education and learning encourages mechanics to stay and grow with the County. There was no incentive or recognition of that achievement.”

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 3, 2011

I urge you to read his book, Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity, and to visit his website by clicking here. * * * How do you know if you’ve accomplished something [.]. Here’s a recent post by Josh Linkner. His life continues to be an inspiring fulfillment of the values he affirms.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I urge you to read his book, Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity, and to visit his website by clicking here. * * * It’s often said that the most successful people [.]. Here’s a recent post by Josh Linkner. His life continues to be an inspiring fulfillment of the values he affirms.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

These systems can be installed at prices far lower than the cost of a new highway or replacement of a water main, because they leverage existing infrastructure, rather than building new. Replacing these systems may be cost prohibitive, but simply making sure they are in full working order can minimize pollution.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Increasingly, I've heard people at large companies ask how to create human resource systems that support innovation. We need to make sure we have systems that balance short and long term performance. Innovation is, of course, an intensely human behavior.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Maria Konnikova is the author of the New York Times bestseller, MASTERMIND: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. She writes the weekly “Literally Psyched” column for Scientific American, where she explores the intersection of literature and psychology, and formerly wrote the popular psychology blog “Artful Choice” for Big Think.

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Blog How To Kahneman Gilbert 75

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. And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 2, 2012

Here’s an excerpt from a recent post by Josh Linkner at his website. To check out the wealth of resources that he provides, please click here. * * * In addition to reaching the top of our game in our careers, we feel crushing pressure to excel at nearly every other area of life. The [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 21, 2012

Here’s a recent post by Josh Linkner at his website. To check out the wealth of resources that he provides, please click here. * * * That ubiquitous red contraption contains just about every feature you can imagine. A nail clipper, ice pick, and Philips screwdriver. None of the individual tools are especially remarkable – [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 19, 2012

Here’s a recent post by Josh Linkner at his website. To check out the wealth of resources that he provides, please click here. * * * A good friend of mine said something to me at dinner this week that really hit me: “Aim Up, Compare Down.” ” So many of us drive ourselves crazy by [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Here is a recent post by Josh Linkner at his website. To check out the wealth of free resources that he provides, please click here. * * * Don’t let the sugary name fool you. Recognized as the most fearless animal by the Guinness Book of World Records, the Honey Badger is a strange yet [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 24, 2012

As a parent of four and a grandparent of ten, I count among my most precious blessings each and every opportunity I have to play games with them. Golf with the three sons, board games with the daughter and teenage grand children (usually chess) and whatever board and electronic games the younger grandchildren wish to play. [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 14, 2012

Here’s a recent post by Josh Linkner at his website. To check out the wealth of resources that he provides, please click here. * * * When the space shuttle takes off, it burns two-thirds of its fuel in the first 20 minutes. The remaining supply is ample for up to two weeks of continued [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 19, 2012

Here’s a recent post by Josh Linkner at his website. To check out the wealth of resources that he provides, please click here. * * * A good friend of mine said something to me at dinner this week that really hit me: “Aim Up, Compare Down.” ” So many of us drive ourselves crazy by [.].

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In fact, the Federal Reserve System is almost certainly the nation’s largest employer of PhD economists, with more than 200 at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington and what is likely a similar number (I got tired of counting) scattered among the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. That Fed staff is loaded with economics PhDs.

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Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

There have been plenty of recent examples where shareholders would have been well served by systems to curtail wild risks. There is an interesting idea coming out of the work my colleague Clark Gilbert is doing to transform the Deseret News and Deseret Digital (both owned by the Mormon Church). Visualize an airlock chamber on a ship.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

The downtown Detroit boomlet is to a remarkable extent the work of one wealthy risk-taker, Quicken Loans chairman and co-founder Dan Gilbert. According to the blog Detroit Unspun , Gilbert and his firm Rock Ventures now own or control more than 30 properties downtown, totaling 7.5 Are these the right prescriptions? I don''t know.

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Gilbert Venture Capitalist Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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