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10 Books You Should Read This Summer 2023

Leading Blog

The Creative Act : A Way of Being by Rick Rubin - (January 2023) Finding the Way : The Entrepreneur's Tale by Cap Treeger - (January 2023) Good Power : Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World by Ginni Rometty - (March 2023) An Ordinary Man : The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R.

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. Kaplan and Dr. David P. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Discipline I.

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. Kaplan and Dr. David P. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Discipline I.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2023

Leading Blog

Blog Post ) Positive Chaos : Transform Crisis into Clarity and Advantage by Dan Thurmon (Page Two, 2023) Chaos does not have to be confusing or debilitating. Positive Chaos will help you to learn to understand and embrace chaos, rise above the noise, and be truly proactive, helpful, and fulfilled.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

They don’t tell you how well the business is positioned for future growth and ROIC improvement. It took many years for the company to regain its lost position. Kaplan and Norton point out that customer satisfaction, internal business processes, learning, and revenue growth are important drivers of long-term performance.

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Research: If You Position Products as a Set, People Are More Likely to Buy Them All

Harvard Business Review

Recent research I conducted with Leslie John, Elizabeth Keenan, and Michael Norton of Harvard Business School investigated whether it’s possible to harness this desire to motivate people in specific ways. But just how far are people willing to go to achieve “completeness”?

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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