First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2012

Tomorrow at the April First Friday Book Synopsis, I will present my synopsis of What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation by Gary Hamel, This is the second book I have presented by Hamel, [.]. Randy's blog entries first friday book synopsis Gary Hamel What Matters NowTomorrow, we begin our 15th year of the First Friday Book Synopsis!

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NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gary Hamel for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. Bob''s blog entries 2014 Global Drucker Forum Gallup’s latest 142-country survey on the State of the Global Workplace Gary Hamel on "The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation" Harvard Business Review HBR Blog Network HBR email alerts Management Lab Strategos The Future of Management

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 2, 2012

One, What Matters Now by Gary Hamel, at the First Friday Book Synopsis. Randy's blog entries Charles Duhigg Gary Hamel The Power of Habit What Matters NowI am presenting two new business books to different groups this week. The other, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, to a private client (I will present it this summer at the First Friday Book Synopsis). These books agree in a [.].

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APRIL 7, 2012

I have now presented my 15 minute version of Gary Hamel’s new book, What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation at yesterday morning’s First Friday book Synopsis. Randy's blog entries empathy Gary Hamel What Matters Now

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APRIL 3, 2012

Gary Hamel, What Matters Now ————— Gary Hamel, in his newest book What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation (the subtitle wears me out, thinking about all [.]. Randy's blog entries Gary Hamel values values-driven What Matters NowBy definition, every organization is “values driven.” The only question is, what values are in the driver’s seat?

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Management Craft

MARCH 9, 2011

Management Legend Dr. Gary Hamel kicked us off this morning with a great keynote. Books Breakthroughs Management gary hamel management management exchange the future of management transformationI have seen Gary speak before, but he is one of those down to earth but brilliant thinkers I could listen to again and again. Check out his book The Future of Management (great title!).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 14, 2012

Bob's blog entries 2007 Bill Breen Claudia Joyce Forward-looking executives must respond to the growing need for a new managerial model Harvard Business Review Press in their recently published book Innovative management: A conversation with Gary Hamel and Lowell Bryan Joanna Barsh Management Innovation Lab McGraw-Hill McKinsey & Company Mobilizing Minds (Note: Lowell L.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

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Management Craft

MAY 13, 2011

I love this video of a speech by Gary Hamel on reinventing management. This would make for a great pre-work assignment fro your next staff meeting or warm up for your next planning session. Gary challenges us to radically rethink how we build great organizations. Enjoy and apply. Management OD

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

And sure enough, bright folks such as Gary Hamel, C. Human Resources Leadership Gary Hamel Harvard John Kotter Mentoring Michael Porter Rosabeth Kanter Strategy

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 23, 2012

From Gary Hamel, What Matters Now (notice the subtitle: How to win in a world of relentless change, ferocious competition, and unstoppable innovation): Innovation isn’t a fad—it’s the real deal, the only deal. Randy's blog entries Gary Hamel innovation Nicholas Carr the Hierarchy of Innovation The Shallows What Matters NowThe jury came in long ago. No change, no innovation = real trouble for any and every organization.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 5, 2012

Randy's blog entries Bonhoeffer ethics Gary Hamel morals New Orleans Saints Parkland values What Matters NowNews item: Dallas Police Department fires three officers: Dallas Police Chief David Brown fired three officers Friday in cases involving alleged substance abuse, including one who police say drove while drunk and fired a weapon out of his car and another found to have misused prescription drugs. News Item: Parkland Memorial Hospital fired a social [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2012

On April 3, 1998, Karl Krayer and I presented our first two books at the first ever First Friday Book Synopsis. Here were our first two book choices: • The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997) – synopsis presented by Randy Mayeux. • The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every [.]. Randy's blog entries

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

According to Gary Hamel, it's your management model. Hamel says that the Internet, with its values of transparency, collaboration, meritocracy and self-determination, should be a model for transforming management. Hamel said those companies that want to take on the " Management 2.0

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 14, 2011

Randy's blog entries Adaptation Exaptation Innovation: Processes and Environments That Invite Successful Innovation Bernd Schmitt Gary Hamel Roger Martin Steven Johnson Tom Kelley Twyla Tharp

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2012

Gary Hamel, The Future of Management What limits innovation in established companies isn’t a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but dearth of pro- innovation processes. Randy's blog entries constant innovation Design Gary HamelEvery business is successful until it’s not. What’s disconcerting, though, is how often top management is surprised when “not” happens.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 20, 2012

Gary Hamel, The Future of Management What limits innovation in established companies isn’t a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but dearth of pro- innovation processes. Randy's blog entries constant innovation Design Gary HamelEvery business is successful until it’s not. What’s disconcerting, though, is how often top management is surprised when “not” happens.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 1, 2012

Change Leading Managing Strengths Taking others higher Culture draw backs gary hamel innovative management Leadership Development Management management models Organizational DevelopmentBy definition most of us are average. Even though: 68% of the faculty at the University of Nebraska rate themselves in the top 25% of teaching ability. 90% students see themselves as more intelligent than the average student. 93% of U.S. drivers put themselves in the top 50% of driving ability.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 1, 2012

Change Leading Managing Strengths Taking others higher Culture draw backs gary hamel innovative management Leadership Development Management management models Organizational DevelopmentBy definition most of us are average. Even though: 68% of the faculty at the University of Nebraska rate themselves in the top 25% of teaching ability. 90% students see themselves as more intelligent than the average student. 93% of U.S. drivers put themselves in the top 50% of driving ability.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Dan’s guest for the month was Gary Hamel, author of What Matters Now (review forthcoming) and The Future of Management (review not need – buy the book). Hamel argued that on biggest challenges facing large companies was senior leadership “inability to write off their own depreciating intellectual capital. This wasn’t the first time Hamel had used the term. LeaderLab Burkus competition hamel innovation intellectual capital knowledge pink

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 16, 2012

Gary Hamel, What Matters [.]. Randy's blog entries Gary Hamel innovation team meetings What Matters Now…successful products and strategies are quickly copied. Without relentless innovation, success is fleeting. …there’s not one company in a hundred that has made innovation everyone’s job, every day. ?In In most organizations, innovation still happens “despite the system” rather than because of it.?…innovation

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 13, 2012

In the winning entries in a contest co-sponsored McKinsey & Company with Gary Hamel’s Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) and Harvard Business Review, the authors of seven articles reveal executive thinking on the importance of engaging employees in an open and realistic way.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Comoetition, and Unstoppable Innovation Gary Hamel Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why knowing and doing what matters NOW will create an organization “fit for the future and fit for human beings” I have read and reviewed all of Gary Hamel’s previously [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 14, 2011

The Future of Management Gary Hamel with Bill Breen Harvard Business School Press (2007) With all due respect to today’s business bestsellers, most of the best books have already been written on the most important subjects. Case in point: This invaluable “guide to inventing tomorrow’s best practices today&# As Gary Hamel clearly indicates in his earlier [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 22, 2013

{On April 5, 2013, we will celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the First Friday Book Synopsis, and begin our 16th year. During March, I will post a blog post per day remembering key insights from some of the books I have presented over the 15 years of the First Friday Book Synopsis. We have met [.]. Randy's blog entries

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 5, 2012

I never appreciated Steve Jobs’ quote, “I want to put a ding in the universe,” until I talked with Gary Hamel, Wall Street Journal’s #1 most influential business thinker. Change Fear Humility Influence Innovation Leading Managing Marks of leaders Optimism Passion Personal Growth Taking others higher Decisions fortune 500 company gary hamel Leadership leadership behaviors Leadership Development Power small solutions

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 5, 2012

I never appreciated Steve Jobs’ quote, “I want to put a ding in the universe,” until I talked with Gary Hamel, Wall Street Journal’s #1 most influential business thinker. Change Fear Humility Influence Innovation Leading Managing Marks of leaders Optimism Passion Personal Growth Taking others higher Decisions fortune 500 company gary hamel Leadership leadership behaviors Leadership Development Power small solutions

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation. His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 27, 2012

Bob's blog entries “the most valuable human capabilities are precisely those that are least manageable” Bill Breen and published by Harvard Business Review Press Gary Hamel gives all of us something to think about this weekend Karl Krayer Randy Mayeaux The Future of ManagementFor most of us, weekends provide an opportunity to take a rest from thinking about weekday concerns and consider less urgent – but perhaps much more important – issues.

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CEO Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Listening to Gary Hamel - visiting professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School. Still reporting from #WBF11. The sessions are awesome and inspirational. I had lunch with the people putting on C2-MTL , a creativity conference being held in Montreal in May of next year. Their program looks great. Cohosted with Circ du soleil so should be inspirational. Hopefully they will ask me to join them as either a blogger or presenter.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Bob's blog entries Aon Hewitt Apple “NOW game-changers” “Seven Deadly Sins” of management “Speedometer” assessment exercises BlessingWhite Business at the Speed of Now Dan Pink ESI Floating Point Systems Gallup Gary Hamel Harvard Business Review blog James O'Toole John Bernard Leading Change NOW Management System? John Bernard is the author of Business at the Speed of NOW, published by John Wiley & Sons in December of 2011.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 26, 2012

Gary Hamel, What Matters Now ————- Let’s think about what organizations value. Randy's blog entries Gary Hamel Joe Paterno Libor scandal Penn State valuesBy definition, every organization is “values driven.” The only question is, what values are in the driver’s seat? We’d best start with this: what does your organization value? Make sure you know the answer to that question. Everything depends on it. And, there’s [.].

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The Practical Leader

MAY 7, 2012

” has four steps from London Business School professor, Gary Hamel, on building a team that shares more of the workload. management culture development employee commitment employee satisfaction Gary Hamel leadership London Business School organizational change The Inspiring Leader

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 11, 2012

In his latest book, What Matters Now, Gary Hamel urges his reader to ask, “What are the fundamental, make-or-break challenges that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead?” For Hamel, five issues are paramount: o Values: “Not surprisingly, large corporations are now among society’s least trusted institutions…values now matter more [.].

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

As more organizations are becoming flatter, the looming question is whether it’s possible to “do more with less” or whether it’s necessary to rethink the distribution of power and control as described by Peter Drucker, Peter Block and Gary Hamel among others.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 31, 2011

Julian Birkinshaw, co-founder of The Management Lab with Gary Hamel, has a new book, "Reinventing Management: Smarter Choices for Getting Word Done" that is clearly one of the best. Steve Denning Reinvent Radical Management Power of Pull Management Innovation Exchange Management Julian Birkinshaw John Hagel Innovation Culture Hackmanagement Gary Hamel Dan Pink Dan Heath Chip Heath 21st CenturyAs we look around us, 20th C regimes, institutions and businesses are failing.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Recently I was delighted to see two great case studies written by good friends of mine appeared on Gary Hamel’s MIX. Both case studies reflect elements of the Connection Culture that I wrote about in Fired Up or Burned Out. The first case study written by Deborah Mills-Scofield is entitled “ The 160-year old Startup.&# The second case study written by Drew Williams is entitled “ Restoring Faith in the Institution: How Mission Shaped Communities Revitalized St.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 30, 2011

Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference Tim Sanders Crown Business (2008) Note: Here is a review of a book I read when it was first published in 2003. I recently re-read it prior to reading and reviewing Sanders’ latest, Today [.].

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Orrin Woodward

OCTOBER 13, 2009

One of my favorite talks at the conference was by Gary Hamel. Mr. Hamel is a thought leader in the field of management and organizational change. Mr. Hamel challenged the audience to rethink their vision of management.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

The topic for this Chat was “Emergent Leadership” In the India HR Chat Preview, the questions that would be asked during the chat were listed and also articles for pre-reading, including First Fire All the Managers by Gary Hamel and Emergent Leadership Topples the Pyramid by Jesse Stoner.

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