First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 14, 2010

The book helped me understand more clearly how the Internet has changed the way we interact and get information. We are being pushed rapidly down a route largely determined by the technological environment.&# “Anything that raises the cost of doing something reduces what gets done.&# And soon after I started, I found the time.

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Engaging Leader

JANUARY 2, 2014

Nearly two decades ago, Clayton Christiansen changed the way large companies thought about strategy and innovation with his book The Innovator’s Dilemma. His brand-new book, co-authored with Paul Nunes, is Big […]. Article: “Blockbuster Becomes a Casualty of Big Bang Disruption” from Harvard Business Review blog.

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Innovation Strategy Disruptive Innovation Brand 164

Engaging Leader

APRIL 1, 2020

An important new book discusses how to help women both advance and thrive at work – THE FIX: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work – and it includes an entire section equipping men to play a critical role in fixing workplaces so they work for everyone, including women and minority groups. Book: The Fix.

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Diversity Globalization Sports Magazine 173

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World Tony Wagner Scribner/A Simon & Schuster Imprint (2012) Why and how to nurture the creativity of all children As Tony Wagner explains, “This book is about how we can develop the capacities of many more young people to be creative and entrepreneurial.

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QAspire

JUNE 26, 2023

I recently re-read the book “How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci” by Michael Gelb and realized how profoundly the book impacted my thinking about creativity, learning and well being back in time. This is a prerequisite for solving any innovative problem. Here are my key thoughts these 7 aspects: 1.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2024

In recent years, salon owners have embraced the power of technology, moving beyond the traditional pen-and-paper appointment booking and inventory tracking systems. Comprehensive scheduling capabilities are a must-have, allowing staff and clients to manage bookings with ease and efficiency.

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Software Operations Management CRM 88

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 14, 2012

The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives Frank Moss Crown Business (2011) How and why “individuals empowered with radically new technologies…can succeed in transforming society” Note: The title of my review is taken from one of the observations (..)

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Business Model Review Books Innovation 85

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

They claim to want big, innovative new ideas. In his new book, Creative People Must Be Stopped , Vanderbilt professor David Owens examines just why we feel the need to squash creativity. Technological – current technology can’t leverage the idea. Innovation book review creativity innovation owens'

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 4, 2020

An important new book by a woman who is a PhD and the Director of Inclusion at Netflix tackles the question of what needs to change to help women not only advance but also thrive at organizations. Previously she was head of the UN Women’s Global Innovation Coalition for Change. Book: The Fix. Podcast: thefixpodcast.org.

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Diversity Mentor Globalization Magazine 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

Business Model 70

Business Model Review Books Innovation 70

Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

His book, Getting to Nimble: How to transform your company into a digital leader answers these questions even as it shares compelling stories from organizations who have made the transformational leap required. . agile development, DevOps) and modern technology practices (e.g., What are the best practices we can learn from others?

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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. In his Introduction, Christensen makes his objective crystal clear: “This book is [.]. In his Introduction, Christensen makes his objective crystal clear: “This book is [.].

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Skip Prichard

MAY 22, 2019

That’s what Chris Duffey, creative technologist says about this incredible technology revolutionizing industries the world over. His new book Superhuman Innovation showcases how AI will supercharge the workforce, the world of work, and can be harnessed to deliver powerful change. A Book Co-Written by AI (!).

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Content Innovation Creativity McKinsey 94

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 6, 2023

Few AI-based tools have made such a splash as that made by chatGPT in recent months, with commentators breathlessly proclaiming that all manner of professions will be upended by the tool, its peers, or the technology that underpins them. Instead, those tasks were both amplified and diversified as a result of the new technology.

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Peer Review Tools Analysis Technology 95

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 5, 2011

"Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific new book, The Enemy of Engagement , coming out this month from Amacom. Note: Thank you to Amacom for sending me an advance copy of this book.

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Books Review Constraint Learning-by-Doing 64

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This Motivosity review details how the program works to help employees recognize the role that they play within the organization. Improving job performance by learning new technology or giving them new responsibilities or assignments to gain new skills. He’s written five books and thousands of blog posts about software and writing.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

They claim to want big, innovative new ideas. In his new book, Creative People Must Be Stopped , Vanderbilt professor David Owens examines just why we feel the need to squash creativity. Technological – current technology can’t leverage the idea. Most people claim they want more creativity in their organization.

Creativity 111

Creativity Innovation Constraint Bureaucracy 111

CO2

OCTOBER 12, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Too Much Innovation? I have the privilege recently to work with a technology company that has one of their three core values as innovative. Are we too innovative?

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Innovation Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Definition 74

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the book, you'll explore how leaders, at every level, can build a workplace culture that drives organizational excellence and unleashes the full potential of every employee. The Art of Clear Thinking is a book that will change how you interact with the world around you. But you're ambitious. You want to cross that chasm.

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Books Leadership Norton Edmondson 295

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 25, 2011

Gupta and Haiyan Wang Jossey-Bass (2009) How to leverage the world’s fastest-growing economies for global advantage In my review of Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang’s previous book, The Quest for Global Dominance, co-authored with Vijay Govindarajan, I [.].

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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. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: Pixar could see these guys were driven to make great films but knew they didn’t have access to the kind of technology Pixar had so they went after them.

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Competitive Advantage Film Creativity Open-book 285

Tim Milburn

JANUARY 28, 2014

The following is an excerpt from the book, The Age of the Customer, by Jim Blasingame. This excerpt is from his book: We are a society in search of trust. Along with technology and innovation, trust is one of the most powerful forces in business today. In his book The Speed of Trust , Stephen M.R. Washington.

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Power Books Covey Open-book 96

QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra Akshaya Patra Foundation in India is a shining example of how social entrepreneurship combined with power of innovation can make a HUGE difference. They use technology to cook more food in less time.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In his book Thursday is the New Friday: How to Work Fewer Hours, Make More Money, and Spend Time Doing What You Want , Joe Sanok outlines how we arrived at this point in history, what we each can do internally to thrive, and how slowing down is actually the key to growing productivity and creativity. So will the team check emails after work?

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

They yearn to be coached with constant feedback rather than an annual performance review. This is leading to a profound change in the architecture of the corporation and how we orchestrate capability to innovate. Because companies must constantly innovate, product life cycles collapse. Product and service innovation.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Trends Open-book 84

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

Many of this year’s business books recognize culture’s role as the essential driver of effective change. By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. The reissue of his classic book is cause for celebration.

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Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Taylor 273

CO2

OCTOBER 12, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Too Much Innovation? I have the privilege recently to work with a technology company that has one of their three core values as innovative. Are we too innovative?

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Innovation Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Definition 60

CO2

DECEMBER 24, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. They have been studying over the past decade innovation within established organizations. This is such a straight forward book well thought out and well executed.

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Innovation Execution Executive Coaching Govindarajan 74

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 21, 2011

Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape Henry Chesbrough Harvard Business Press (2006) Innovation requires an open mind…and the courage to challenge “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.”

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Business Model Open-book Review Books 80

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

It’s a notion that Roland Rust and Ming-Hul Huang believe will be at the heart of what they refer to as the “feeling economy” in their eponymous book. Supporting innovation. This kind of servant leadership also plays a crucial role in supporting the kind of innovations that will be so important in the years ahead.

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Ries Software Emotional Intelligence Ethics 116

CO2

OCTOBER 16, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. via Questions Are The Answer | Management Innovation eXchange. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Innovation Management Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 79

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 10, 2013

It must innovate and re-create its products or services but equally the enterprise itself.” – The Executive in Action, 1996 Can you think of examples of seemingly successful businesses that ultimately failed because they did not innovate and recreate everything from their products/services/processes to the basic fabric of the organization?

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