First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Here are some recent posts that may be of interest to you: REVIEWS How Women Lead: The 8 Essential Strategies Successful Women Know Sharon Hadary and Laura Henderson INTERVIEWS Maria K. Mitchell (Amdec) in “The Corner Office” Interview conducted by Adam Bryant New York Times Thomas M. Sterner, Part 2: An interview by [.].

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Tony Mayo

MAY 20, 2010

–George Bernard Shaw quoted in George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works A Critical Biography (authorized) By Archibald Henderson Click here to download a free version of this image to print. Popularity: 2% [ ? © Tony Mayo except as otherwise noted For Executives.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2014

And since study after study tells us that the most important driver to employee satisfaction is the manager-employee relationship, it only stands to reason that companies should be placing their bets on middle managers to hold the ship together. Use a management cascade so that information goes to them before employees.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

No-cost 15 fruit and vegetable "brain foods" every day - Genesys Systems Integrator Fitness facility - Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa; Henderson Engineers Inc.; Employee Perks Employee Wellness Programs Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Fitness Leadership Motivating Employees Wellness Programs' Plattform Advertising Inc.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I had over 20 years in management and leadership positions in secular (for profit) work prior to ministry. Recently I heard a great talk from Jeff Henderson (read my notes HERE ), on what non-profits can learn from for profits. What Non-profits Can Learn from For Profits…Jeff Henderson. I agreed with the points Jeff made.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. Bandleaders on the late-night are vital #3 characters on the show, including Doc Severinsen, Skitch Henderson, Paul Shaffer and The Roots band. Think as a manager, not as a worker. Learn and do the things it will take to assume management responsibility.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2019

” That’s a key conclusion of a major study by Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and the Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute. Find ways to manage chronic uncertainty. “Workers are more adaptive and optimistic about the future than their leaders recognize.”

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Agility Organization Henderson Focus Group 55

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Customers are suffering right now, I’ve got 302 people just in the Baton Rouge area, and we’ve got about 20-30 managers trying to do the job of 300 people right now,” CWA Baton Rouge area president Dwaine Henderson had said in a statement when the strike was ongoing.

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Telecommunications Chief Operating Officer Henderson Call Center 52

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 10, 2011

Guest panellists David Anderson (The Anderson Governance Group), Sharon Ranson (The Ranson Group) and Holly Henderson (Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation) shared their best tips and here’s a roundup for those who weren’t able to snag one of our limited seats. . You’ll be relying on them, so you need to have confidence in their abilities.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 12, 2010

One of the highlights came from keynote speaker, Harvard Business School professor Rebecca Henderson, who spoke to us on the subject of organizations being stuck , and how they can get un-stuck. She reported on her research into how organization’s chose, manage and succeed/or not, with projects. This really rang so true to me.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2019

In surveying 11,000 people in lower-income and middle-skills jobs and 6,500 managers across 11 countries, Fuller discovered that, contrary to what bosses believe, many employees are excited about new technologies and willing to be trained in new skills. But they don’t always know what they need to learn or how to access and pay for it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2012

Use that information to set your own expectations and the hiring manager's. Throughout the discussions, be aware of how you are coming off to the hiring manager or recruiter. Be reasonable and honest with yourself and the hiring manager about what salary you're willing to accept. Then compare the advice you get. Focus on "we".

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COO How To Proposal Henderson 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

On the other hand, most large sample studies in the accounting literature show something different: firms that manage their earnings perform better than firms that don’t (and not just in the short term). I spoke with Professor Henderson about their research. Managers may think that the capital markets are the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2009, for instance, GM removed its CEO , Fritz Henderson, because he was not enough of a change agent. For example, Durk Jager stepped down as CEO of Proctor & Gamble in 2000, just a year and a half into the job, after roiling P&G’s conservative culture by taking on “ too much change too fast.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The discussion with Michael Toffel and Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, Tensie Whelan of NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies has been condensed and edited for clarity. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. It’s a start.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. Our advisers: Rebecca Henderson. Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Short-term rewards too often take precedence over the longer-term interests and viability of a company. Climate Change on HBR.org. by Forest L.

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Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

A Manager''s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism Working Knowledge. Perhaps, the article argues, the change is akin to what happened on the Wall Street trading floor when everything became automated: "The move toward buying ads on exchanges will mean that their margins are squeezed and life gets a lot tougher."

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Last year, The New Yorker published a piece by Jill Lepore, a history professor at Harvard, attacking the whole idea as overblown and based on shoddy scholarship.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

managers , he said the proportion of U.S. Henderson of the University of Oregon and Irina V. The idea that companies should adopt customer-centric structures has been around in both academia and practice for a while, but it was George S. Day of Wharton who reignited interest in the concept. In his 2006 survey of U.S.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Lead Change Blog

JULY 12, 2017

Despite being a vice president who managed a department of 150 people in a $2 billion annual revenue organization, a male boss felt free to describe me to the CEO as a “soft and round Aunt Polly” and a female colleague as a “colorful little butterfly.” Helen Henderson, writer. Inclusion works to the advantage of everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? As BCG’s founder, Bruce Henderson, once stated , “The first definition of a problem is inescapably intuitive. We’ve spoken to leaders who express such a vision — and companies such as Amazon and Alibaba are already beginning to make it a reality.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

” More specifically, male grooming is Unilever’s largest growth driver, according to Chet Henderson, Unilever’s VP of Insight, Personal Care. One of the ways in which P&G managed to slow Dollar Shave Club’s encroachment was by responding with its own subscription entry, the Gillette Shave Club.

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Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. Vox is a digital publishing company known, in part, for its proprietary content management system. Architectural Innovation.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

You're a corporate shareholder unhappy with the direction management is taking. And because the railways were government-owned and subsidized, the management didn't care all too much about the subsequent loss of revenue. According to a well-known manual this rule "results in perpetuating bad management and bad policies."

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Airlines Rogers Henderson Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

But as a strategy professor, I wondered which tools from the study of management could help. Others, such as Rebecca Henderson, point to innovations that change what it takes organizationally to deliver what customers want. Or does Trump represent a fundamental change in the U.S. political system?

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Politics Henderson Media Christensen 8