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. We decided that our children needed more parental involvement, a scenario faced by many dual-career couples.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. It transformed my business and career. 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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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. Near the end of his career, it also helped him decide to sell Frankel. Others believe that leaders are born, not made.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

So it was notable, to say the least, when Roger Martin recently wrote in Harvard Business Review that he thinks that all the talk about adaptive strategy is a cop-out. We’ve seen these changes in our own lifetimes, and even over the span of a single career. Technology cycles have begun to outplace planning cycles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In his book Collision of Wills , University of Chicago sociology professor Roger V. The stakes here may not be as high — the corporate fast lane normally doesn’t require risking life and limb – but the damage can be costly nonetheless, both for companies and for individual careers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

. “The higher you go in an organization, the more you’re expected to make decisions on which you might not have direct experience or expertise,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. Rather than using pithy labels like “Career Service” or “Employment”, we write initial summary statements like “Students write resumes in order to find jobs.”

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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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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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