Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 24, 2016

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers. Vaneet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies (HCLT), jettisoned the “customer first” mindset and replaced it with “employees first, customers second.” Under New Management is well worth reading. Management Focus on Employees First.

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Performance Review Management Review Rogers 150

HR Digest

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The month ushered in an utterly haunting whiplash in the form of ‘layoffs,’ and shattered the stability of thousands of technology workers across the States. A recent hiatus from work could not have prepared me for what I would call a ‘brutal’ November. leading some to describe these tech layoffs as a sign of probable recession.

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Advertising Rogers Finance Engineering 52

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Kenny Rogers does the same thing when he's in town." You wouldn't think that anyone as big in the entertainment field as Jay Leno and Kenny Rogers needs to give away their performances, but they do. Old-School Business + New-School Technologies = Success. He gives a special show for taxi drivers at two in the morning.

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Media Word of Mouth Marketing Rogers Advertising 90

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “ you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em. However it has been my observation you’ll rarely come across someone who possesses a great sense of timing, or a nose for opportunity who is anything other than successful.

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Due Diligence Metrics Competitive Advantage Rogers 167

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Ideas make a difference.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 4, 2012

By enabling the nearly costless distribution of perfect copies of music, books, and movies, digital technologies intensified a behavioral enigma that always lay at the heart of copyright law. Source: Roger Parloff , senior editor, FORTUNE, July 23, 2012. These works are what economists call public goods.

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Innovation Film Rogers Constraint 99

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? by Will Rogers, or somebody else. If you are an established organization and something new comes along, you are more than likely going to want to use it to do what you did in the past as apposed to use it to disrupt. Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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Deming Company Management Conference 53

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# Not too surprisingly, people who possess a poor sense of timing usually don’t even understand timing is an issue.

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Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 418

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2011

New technologies are being created at a rapidly increasing pace. Can you develop people remotely? And high unemployment combined with the current economic malaise has forced many companies to cut back on middle-managers and travel. All of this creates a toxic environment for leadership development.

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Leadership Development Development Middle Management Leadership 278

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. These tenets are discussed at length by Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies, in his book ‘employees first, customers second’ [link] mikemyatt Hi Kavita: Thanks for your comment.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 343

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. Jointly map the work flows before you implement the technology. Companies can execute major process improvements to reduce risk and allow organizational learning by breaking projects down into a series of small, reversible experiments.

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Technology Software CIO Information Technology 13

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. ” Alan Kay. ” Ayn Rand.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 10, 2017

He and his team are equipped with weapons fashioned from alien technology. They saw a wealth of new technology that could be used to benefit themselves. They took the technology, studied the technology, and used the technology to their own end. Steve Rogers/Captain America: How are you going to make things right?

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Technology Follow-up 124

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

– -Will Rogers. During my 87 years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. . –Charles “Casey” Stengel. A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. – -Michel de Montaigne. Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. “Which road do I take?”

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Succession How To Gilbert Learning-by-Doing 165

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 19, 2012

Davenport and Brook Manville Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to take full and systematic advantage of technology and analytics to create deeper and more sustainable judgment To introduce this review, I call upon Peter Drucker: “There is [.].

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Review Drucker Books Technology 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 12, 2011

His landmark book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (2003) articulated a new paradigm for industrial research and development. Chesbrough is Adjunct Professor, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Executive Director of its Center for Open Innovation.

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Open-book Business Model Innovation Technology 90

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 19, 2012

Davenport and Brook Manville Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to take full and systematic advantage of technology and analytics to create deeper and more sustainable judgment To introduce this review, I call upon Peter Drucker: “There is [.].

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Review Drucker Books Technology 70

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 23, 2012

He advises clients on learning strategy, leads the implementation of instructional technology and produces engaging interactive multimedia content. Becker PhD founded Becker Multimedia, simulations and serious games — to enhance job competencies and performance.

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Brand Content Technology Strategy 80

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

It you are not a technology geek, picture being asked to sit in a software class. It’s hard to picture tennis great Roger Federer or Olympian gold medalist Michael Phelps being successful if they didn’t enjoy tennis or swimming and were just doing it to be famous. The same holds for great leadership skills.

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Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” – Will Rogers. An example: the experts in key card computing were displaced by new technology.) They query everyone who passes into their lives, hoping to identify new ideas, useful information and best practices that they can add to their own learning arsenal. Leaders think for themselves.

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Learning-by-Doing Drucker Levitt Education 56

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

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. Reply Stewart Rogers , on June 26, 2009 at 9:54 am said: – I learned we have RULES (1) I bet this was a boy!

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Class Leadership Learning-by-Doing Productivity 110

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The difference is illustrated by a classic joke about old-time movie dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He led Ginger Rogers around the dance floor flawlessly. But Ginger Rogers was an advanced leader. The surface has barely been scratched for the use of technology to improve society. He had a goal. He set direction.

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Rogers Health Care Education Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

With a PhD in molecular biology from Columbia University, Roger had published a paper in Nature and was pursuing a promising career as an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School. In fact, during that first year, Roger’s colleagues were incredulous. That was a decade ago. Was he really leaving?

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Rogers Career Article Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. In 1962, an academic by the name of Everett Rogers released a book called The Diffusion of Innovations. Bundling good.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. But that’s only one side of the story.

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Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., The first AR technology was developed in 1968 at Harvard when computer scientist Ivan Sutherland (named the “father of computer graphics”) created an AR head-mounted display system.

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? Roger Schwarz. Maskot/Getty Images. You may be surprised to learn this powerful tool is already at your disposal. You and Your Team Series.

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Conference Commitment Rogers Tools 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Tyson (Kaiser Permanente, healthcare), Omar Ishrak (Medtronic, medical technology), Sallie Krawcheck (Ellevest, investing), Kathryn Maher (Wikimedia, encyclopedia), John Rogers (Ariel Investments, financial services). I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc., Foster diversity throughout the organization.

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AR technology enhances the physical environment you see by overlaying virtual elements, such as information or images over it, either through displays such as HoloLens and Google Glass or through the camera view on your smartphone. Companies first have to understand how AR differs from other digital technologies.

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Marketing Technology Participative Brand 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. Share an ah-ha moment, an experience, a process, but share…This post can be a game changer to many people if those who read it are willing to share their collective wisdom.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 360

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

Roger Schwarz. Ask people to: avoid using technology unless it is pertinent to the topics. Preparation allows you to relax about leading the meeting and pay more attention to “reading the room” — noticing how people are doing as they walk in, and throughout the meeting. You and Your Team Series. Demonstrate empathy.

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Team How To Participative Rogers 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. Roger Schwarz. You and Your Team Series.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Roger Martin. HBR's editors have compiled a list of some of our — and your — favorite of the nearly 2000 blog posts we published in 2012. Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young. Anne Kreamer. How to (Finally) Quit Your Job. Daniel Gulati. The Robots Coming for Your Job. Andy McAfee. Needs to Make More Jobs More Creative.

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Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 12