Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.

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Leadership Rogers Ethics Taylorism 200

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. On with the exam… Section I: Character. Section III: Strategy. Section IV: Tactics.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

Vincent Barabba led the US Census Bureau, founded Market Insight Corporation and authored The Decision Loom: A design or interactive decision-making in organizations (among other books). The idea of testing opinions and beliefs is key to Deming’s management system (as it is to the scientific method).

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Deming Kaizen Rogers Drucker 28

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

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Rogers Leadership Newsletter Strategic Planning 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1. Be extraordinary.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. How to survive and thrive in a down economy.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Processes, trends, fads, perceived stresses and “the system” force adults to make compromises in order to proceed. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. There has never been a full-scope book on non-profit service. About the Author.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

I'd bet, given recent events in the markets, like many, you'd like to get to the bottom of what the heck is really going on here. But the market turmoil we've witnessed in the past few days might should not have been a surprise — and wasn't — to those who have been paying attention. It's been a scary couple of days.

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Crisis Marketing Banking Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

The question on the tip of everyone's tongue when this type of nightmare takes hold is, "Why doesn't senior management do something?" The less obvious, but equally culpable, individual is often the manager who fumbles the job of taking this employee to task promptly. I'm at a loss when it comes to managing Cynthia," Roger confessed.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

What's more, those streaks were still made by the skillful, such giants as Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby. They argue that long streaks in the mutual fund world — such as when a fund beats the market many years in a row — are simply products of lots of funds performing in a mediocre way for a long time. But is this true?

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Management Fashion Long-term Sports 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets.

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Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Computer systems often don't come in a multitude of small parts; they generally come in huge packages. So is there a way to implement big process and system changes while engaging workers and enabling organizational learning? For example, the new system replaced a manual process for order entry.

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Technology Software CIO Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

John Shuttleworth, a member of BTFG’s Executive Management Team, is responsible for Platforms and Investments. The company, Australia’s largest wealth platform provider, is the wealth management arm of the Westpac Group (Australia’s second largest bank in terms of market capitalization). Related Video.

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Commitment Banking Proposal Video 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Did you notice how quickly the Ray Rice story turned into the Roger Goodell story? They are systemic. These moments are about larger systems of roles, beliefs, behaviors, and history. Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market.

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Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 13

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

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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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

” Lego has used the systems approach to great effect; P&G has arguably elevated the factory approach to its most elaborate. The first requires that top managers understand and explicitly determine how innovation fits within the larger corporate strategy.

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Process Innovation Brainstorming Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The video, an interview about his agenda-setting article, " Creating Shared Value ," kicked off a year of revisiting our current economic system across our book , blog , and magazine channels, and it produced some of our best rich media features: Illustrated timeline. The Good Company: Then and Now. Video interview. Interactive infographic.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

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., technology), rivalry could be an important lever for managers to pull to incentivize risk-taking. Rivalry is everywhere. Ford versus GM), or between nations (e.g., should U.S. accounting).

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

As Joan Lewis, former P&G Global Officer and SVP of Consumer and Market Knowledge says, “Hundreds or thousands of projects are good ideas but if we don’t prune the list, they will strangle each other like weeds in a garden.”. For example, a major bank tried to do a technological transition of their system without sufficient pre-testing.

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After Action Review Rogers Contingency Plans Leadership 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. ” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T.

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Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Reading the banner headlines about family businesses gone sour — Market Basket , Rollins , L’Oreal , among others — people often conclude that conflicts in family businesses spiral out of control like mighty tornadoes that destroy everything in their paths. The seven stages: 1) Interests diverge. 2) Positions harden.

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CFO Positioning COO Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

To investigate this question, I interviewed Roger Martin , the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada. The NFL has managed this shift quite remarkably, in a fashion that has gotten them so that virtually very team is profitable. Or is this a completely different kind of talent battle?

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Franchising Airlines Short-term Long-term 8

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. Second, Edmunds.com employees had plenty of creative ideas for improving the site but no standard system for evaluating and implementing them.

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Rogers Learning-by-Doing Training Process 8

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. System upholders.

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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

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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Long-term Budgeting Quality Consultative 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions.

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

” Call it cost management fatigue. The best-run companies, in contrast, think of cost management as a way to support their strategy, and of cost as precious investment that will fuel their growth. At the same time, Eagle Snacks was gaining market share with innovative new products and its own distribution system.

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Cost How To Budgeting Strategic Planning 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

But ask CEOs and they will give you chapter and verse about the many constraints they face, from capital markets to boards of directors to regulations. And what systems do we need in place to manage those capabilities? That would only be a valid argument if the CEO’s choices were truly unconstrained. Where will we play?

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Execution CEO Strategy Definition 8

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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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2017

McKinsey has made its case empirically, finding evidence linking long-term management to superior financial performance. In 2015 Rotman’s Roger Martin reviewed the evidence on both sides here at HBR and explained why he believed short-termism is a problem. But not everyone agrees. Porter said the U.S. So this view that U.S.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The ability to manage change determines the fate of any organization. Companies that effectively manage change thrive, while those unable to do so ultimately fail from irrelevance. This second type of change management is critical because it creates meaning and purpose around the other challenges.

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Ulrich Leadership Diversity Audience 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

You're a corporate shareholder unhappy with the direction management is taking. I only first heard of the book (or at least heard of it and remembered it) in a conversation with Roger Lowenstein a few months ago. According to a well-known manual this rule "results in perpetuating bad management and bad policies."

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Airlines Rogers Henderson Loyalty 8