First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 26, 2012

He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance. Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas.

Creativity 70

Creativity Consultative CEO System 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Thomas Merton, the famous Trappist monk and Catholic scribe wrote, "A monk is a man who has given up everything in order to possess everything. Thomas Merton's abbey at Gethsemane sells cheese, and in the 160 years since it was founded it has grown from 44 monks to precisely 65. We have an inadequate supply of saints.

Merton 14

Merton Self-aware Rate of Return Class 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

It’s been more than 50 years since Nobel prizewinners Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller identified return on investments as a major component of value creation (and value destruction). This failure to even mention return on capital seems perverse. It is, in fact, the salt in the value recipe.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Here a few notable examples. Admittedly, better pricing of options has been a mixed blessing.

Strategy 13

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Merton and Elinor Barber.). If serendipity is a capability, then how is it developed, protected and sustained? Adrian Moorhouse is an Olympic Gold Medalist and Managing Director of Lane4, a global performance development consultancy. The princes did far more than make chance observations. Watson and Crick did.

Merton 15

Merton Creativity Skills Innovation 15

Coaching Tip

MARCH 25, 2011

Canadian Malcolm Gladwell in his book, " Outliers ," tells us that the way Canadians select hockey players is a beautiful example of what the sociologist Robert Merton famously called a "self-fulling prophecy" a situation where a "false definition, in the beginning.evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true.".

Merton 97

Merton Maturity Definition Class 97