First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 18, 2011

The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth Clayton M. Raynor Harvard Business Press (2003) Note: I read and then reviewed this “business classic” when it was first published and recently re-read it. In a previous work, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Christensen [.]. Christensen and Michael E.

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Thin Difference

MAY 21, 2019

Rogers (2003) described diffusion as a social change, altering structures and embracing new ideas. Lowney (2003) discusses heroism as an important leadership trait, mixing a balance of dreamer and pragmatist. Rogers (2003) points out the essential nature of credibility in being a change agent, embracing knowledge and safety.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2011

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 11, 2013

Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why the healthiest organizations are those in which pursuit of improvement is constant, tenacious, and collaborative.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 18, 2021

Just 12% of the women who achieved their PhDs in archaeology from a Canadian school between 2003 and 2017 entered faculty. fathers were four times as likely to manage than mothers. Unequal opportunities. Indeed, for those with a GPA of 4.0,

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 16, 2011

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton M. Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic,&# I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published.

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Leadership and Management Models Download PowerPoint Slides – page 2a. At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100?s. This set contains the slides from all of our management, change, talent & leadership models slide sets.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Every two years, the Thinkers50 publishes their definitive list of management thinkers. Below are the results for 2011. For classic HBR content from this year’s winners, please click here. Christensen is the Kim B.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 11, 2021

Kevin Mitnick, arguably the world’s most famous hacker, brought the art of social engineering to mass attention with his best-selling 2003 book The Art of Deception , in which he outlines how deceiving individuals is so important to effective hacking. These emails typically ask you to reveal key security information, such as a password.

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CO2

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the ROI of Executive Coaching is crucial for organizations committed to fostering growth, innovation, and sustainable success. ” (March 2004), noted that companies heavily investing in employee development outperformed the S&P 500 significantly, by 17 – 35%, during 2003.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. As managers, embracing this fluidity within groups and moving within our teams is crucial. Establish channels for employees to share their thoughts, insights, and concerns. G., & Bersoff, D.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The research explores around thirty years worth of data on many thousands of immigrants in Switzerland, and discovered that those immigrants who did manage to naturalize, tended to earn more money than their peers who had not obtained Swiss citizenship.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Innovation can be stifled — even snuffed out — by normal business processes. To start off the project, I asked senior managers to see some data and to speak to the employees getting the work done. Circular discussions with management on how to increase forecasts ensued. The numbers need to be checked (and rechecked).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Truly game-changing institutional innovations are unlikely to come about from internalizing the rules and making the moves that allowed others to win.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Truly game-changing institutional innovations are unlikely to come about from internalizing the rules and making the moves that allowed others to win.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

In 2000-2003, the emphasis switches to employees and the struggle to get employees to buy into a new corporate culture. Our research also indicated that 2000-2003 seems to be a time when failure fatigue had set in. That culture is less product-focused, more service-focused, and hence more customer-focused.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Maybe it was Nick Carr’s famous May 2003 HBR article “ IT Doesn’t Matter ” that did it. That seems reasonable enough. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. Brad Power (bradfordpower@gmail.com) is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

It's that time of year again , and many a manager's inbox has become flooded with the résumés of (very) soon-to-be college graduates. As proprietors of a college-focused recruiting firm since 2003, we've seen examples like this again and again.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. That's not just my opinion; D'O got a star from Michelin in 2007 and has managed to retain it every year since then. Unlike Ferran Adria's El Bulli in Catalonia, D'O doesn't operate at a loss.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. By applying the solar technology he used at work, Poss envisioned how a new machine might better manage trash. The truck was idling at a pickup point, blocking traffic, with smoke pouring out of its exhaust.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

In my early career, I had experienced the textbook definition of outdated management thinking that centered on hierarchy and lack of trust. There were also fairly rigid dress code requirements; for instance, if women wore skirts, we expected to wear pantyhose (and this was in 2003). It shouldn''t be this way.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percentage points in 2003-2012. As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level. China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

If everyone followed that logic, however, there’d be little innovation to walk out the door or to acquire! Small Firms Are Not More Innovative. The first problem with this view is that it ignores where most innovation comes from. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

In response, the management team made a counterintuitive move: It outsourced network installation, maintenance, and service to Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, and chose IBM to build and manage its IT systems. The vendors for telecom network management were paid only for the capacity utilized by Bharti Airtel, not for the equipment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." His ingenious first step toward creating a collaborative culture was a massive, global collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out of the Innovation Box" was not the title I had wanted, but it worked.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But this is only possible if the senior executives of our leading institutions are what Dominic Barton, Worldwide Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, refers to as "tri-sector athletes" — leaders able to engage and collaborate across all three sectors. Jeff Seabright is a model tri-sector athlete but they come in many forms.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Of the 39 companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1B by private or public market investors, almost half were started by founders who met at school. The founders in this category were intensely self-aware and looked for innovative ways to turn their work experience and hobbies into full-fledged businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. We also shrank the corporate management team by half. Change management Leadership Managing people' This also means valuing integrity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

The official answer is a series of labor market reforms initiated in 2003 under the " Agenda 2010 " framework. Yet it seems as if Germany has managed to get ahead on this very issues, largely by applying a much more fine-tuned and open-minded level of cooperation between unions, employers, and the government.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Increased awareness of possible warning signs of organizational cancer, among leaders, managers and outside consulting firms that specialize in this area, as well as business relations and institutions in higher education, can have a great impact on the disease. We already know that 1 in 3 U.S. in India and Australia.

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