You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Managing and Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan → September 6, 2010 · 12:55 am ↓ Jump to Comments Taking Inventory & A Model For Making It Meaningful Labour Day weekend always feels to me like a harbinger of renewal. Do we hire expertise or develop it? Capability: Do we have the skills we need?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

When have you had to step up? Care to share?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 2, 2011

Managing & Leading…Lessons from Gilbert & Sullivan was really fun to write. And, it helps if you are a Gilbert & Sullivan fan too. Managing Your Personal Impact…One Boss’s Story will show you what I mean. So here’s another look at Four Reasons Why Civility in the Workplace is a Must. I Love to tell stories.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble suggest that companies can consciously manage the balance between the "performance engine" (that minimizes mistakes) and the "discovery team" (that encourages experiments) by being clear about what core capabilities should be forgotten and borrowed. Visualize an airlock chamber on a ship.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 27, 2010

Before getting thrown in head first to the world of assessment, I conducted countless management interviews using the same toolkit of questions: what are your strengths, what are your weaknesses, blah, blah, blah etc. Spending more time upfront on your interviewing can save you lots of time, money (and tears!) down the line.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Those three activities ( detailed in an article Gilbert co-authored in December's Harvard Business Review based on his experience transforming Desert News and Deseret Digital, Utah-based media organizations) don't happen accidentally. Those people have developed skills and mindsets appropriate for yesterday's business, not tomorrow's.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Thrash and Elliot developed the "Inspiration Scale," which measures the frequency with which a person experiences inspiration in their daily lives. The writer Elizabeth Gilbert rightly expresses this concern in her inspiring TED talk. I agree with Gilbert that one should not put pressure on oneself to become inspired.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. Look at the accomplishments of Wikipedia contributors, open-source software developers who find and fix bugs in Linux, or doctors who help each another with difficult diagnoses as part of the Sermo social network. Informal leadership Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Big companies began to attempt to manage innovation in a systematic way. We need to make sure we have systems that balance short and long term performance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The department is now able to share information with neighboring cities like Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, and almost 50 other cities throughout the state of Arizona, essentially tearing down those invisible barriers. Cities can manage traffic using variable toll pricing. To make cities work well, they have to be made more intelligent.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

But as employees, most of us still have to put up with quaint, joyless systems for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, or expense reports. Research from John Bohannon has shown that dance performances can enhance the acquisition and development of knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2021

Coconino County has enhanced its Public Works fleet operations by focusing on employee development and establishing new business practices. In addition to 18 employees operating three shops in two locations, the Division also manages two fueling sites and a Parts and Inventory Room.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2012

You've chatted with Jack, your senior manager, at company parties, attended numerous meetings with him, and talked privately in his office in recent weeks to discuss a new initiative you've been spear-heading. In the words of Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert , ".in You always thought he was a good guy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

That''s partly because they''re older cities with smaller land areas to manage. That could help with cutting costs and improving services, but — groovy urban farms aside — it''s not what you''d call an entirely positive development. But it''s also because they remained central to regional economic life. Policy innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

media innovators, with hundreds of billions of dollars created by companies that are helping democratize content production and distribution while developing new ways to connect advertisers and customers. Instead of having journalists developing content, disruptors largely feature platforms that simplify content creation and distribution.

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