Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Enjoy the post and don’t hesitate to tweet your comments to Jim directly.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Conceptualize your own personal goals. Understand conflicting societal goals. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. Fit your dreams into the necessities and realities of the real world. Find your own niche, do your thing. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

For more than a quarter century, the mantra, of course, has been that corporations' primary focus should be on shareholders and the primary goal should be to "maximize shareholder value." In essence, Martin argues that agency theory and the goal of maximizing "shareholder value" have had significant and harmful side effects.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. That theory, says Roger Martin, “had the unfortunate effect of tightly tying together two markets: the real market and the expectations market.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

How will you advance the goal of the meeting? Roger Schwarz. Her role was to work with marketing to ensure that promotional campaigns and materials were in line with government guidelines. Her role was to work with marketing to ensure that promotional campaigns and materials were in line with government guidelines.

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Restructuring How To Compliance Biotechnology 11

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > As Teresa Amabile and Mukti Khaire explain , “One doesn’t manage creativity. One manages for creativity.” Tom Stillwell , CEO of the Clio Award–winning marketing agency Midnight Oil , explains: “Creativity can be very expensive if you aren’t careful.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. We believe the answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. Talk to your manager about the attributes you bring to your role.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Shareholder returns and executive pay diverged after the market bust of 2000. Take Celgene, a bio-pharmaceutical company that by all accounts is well managed. But 96% of the votes cast went with management. As Roger Martin and Mihnea Moldoveanu explained in HBR back in 2003 , it's all gets down to supply and demand.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the concept of Getting to Yes , an iconic negotiation strategy developed by Harvard professor Roger Fisher and others. For many managers, however, the more difficult day-to-day challenge is “getting to no” which is what we call the process for agreeing on what not to do.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

I also argued that capital markets regulators are much more lackadaisical about protecting the game that has been entrusted to them — and they should learn a lesson from the NFL before their game is irreparably damaged. This is why the contrast between the capital markets reaction and the NFL reaction is both so stark and so sad.

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Hammer Rogers Letter Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., Our goal was to determine whether, how, and why feelings of rivalry between competitors influenced their propensity to take risk. Rivalry is everywhere. Ford versus GM), or between nations (e.g.,

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Finding that first market — a few customers willing to pay for your early product — is hard enough. And that's finding the second market. You've built up the equivalent of a hand callus in response to the friction and pressure of what it has taken to get to that first-market success. And he was right.

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Learning-by-Doing Rogers Marketing Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

” The goal of many thinkers in this camp is to turn the practice of innovation into something closer to a production process than a creative process precisely to produce “more ideas – better ideas! But even here, while the steps may be minimal, they are not all that simple.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. Our goal is to form a master/apprentice relationship: we enter these research activities as a humble apprentice, expecting to learn from a master.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

FOX News Chairman Roger Ailes was reported to have received an exit package worth $40 million after being ousted from his job amid sexual harassment claims. The junk bond market made financing large takeovers possible and even the biggest among the Fortune 500 firms were no longer safe from a forced acquisition.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It was Will Rogers who famously observed that “common sense ain’t all that common.”. Remember, if you don’t have a goal in mind, you can’t expect to achieve it. Duncan: In today’s competitive job market, what can employers do to attract and retain people who will help the business—and themselves—thrive? Frank Sonnenberg.

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Morale Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Ethics 117

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

Breaking down silos and decision-making hierarchies, understanding customers better, bringing products to market faster — these are imperatives for many companies today. Challenges must strike a balance between having specific goals and being flexible enough to foster creativity. You had the benefit of being in the CEO role.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 7, 2019

Sure, I have some goals. Duncan: In one of your essays titled “You Get What You Expect” you write about Roger Bannister, the great runner who proved that a four-minute mile is possible. Sonnenberg: Did you ever notice that when you’re in the market for a new car, you seem to notice car ads more than usual? Like reading.

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Advice Learning-by-Doing Blog Morale 81

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Their market value is set by the seller, who often is an appreciator or, at the least, has a profit motive. The right settings in which to showcase the product.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Critical topics include leadership development of executives, mindset changes in the evolution from manager to executive to leader, executive mentoring, insights into how top professionals evolve, plateaus of professional accomplishment, developing a winning work ethic, lifelong learning and the accrual of business wisdom. Mid-Manager.

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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% million managers and the equivalent of 8.9 of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Founders bet years of their lives on finding product market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company’s prospects. Our engineer was at 75% confidence we’d hit our goal, and our lead from partnerships was at 70%.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Because they have been trained and incented to care about the real game, the one happening on the field, and not about the associated betting market. In that case, after the Steelers scored their go-ahead touchdown, Roethlisberger would have recognized that Pittsburgh was still a field-goal short of matching the point spread of 7 points.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Instead of reading like it was written by a committee of academics, it's as easy to understand as Mr. Rogers. Just click the button that says "Dreams," and you'll see information about the organization's goal for the year and its goal for the next five years. Did the charity have goals? Did the data have integrity?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Now consider a different vision: maybe crafting a fine meal, to be accompanied by local, award-winning microbrewed beer your friends have brought over, and then walking back to the studio where you're designing a building whose goal is nothing less than rivaling the Sagrada Familia.

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