Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Higher Ground : How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World by Alison Taylor Today's headlines teem with employee unrest over racial injustice, communities infuriated by corporate environmental impacts, staff anxiety over surveillance, public outrage over corruption in business, and discoveries of child labor in supply chains.

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Books Leadership Supply Chain Taylor 334

Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 24, 2013

Mr. Shankman shows how leaders like JetBlue’s Dave Needleman, Andrew Taylor of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Ken Chenault of Amex practice these traits to build productive, open, innovative and positive workplaces for the benefit of customers, employees, stockholders, and the bottom line.

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Succession Company Taylor Taylorism 246

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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Human Resources Globalization Resources Diversity 476

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This is the key to innovation and learning from failure – where we enable our employees to get things done while providing them with the time and resources to understand why some measures worked and others failed so that they can be better prepared the next time around. “At the heart of social learning is connection.”

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HCI Taylor Taylorism Chief Operating Officer 279

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Why are some of the world’s most successful companies able to stay ahead of disruption, adopting and implementing innovative strategies, while others struggle? Always have at least one book going.” — Kent Taylor, Made From Scratch. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Books Wiseman Leadership Open-book 338

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 11, 2021

From cover-to-cover of Made From Scratch you’ll learn the leadership lessons of the late Kent Taylor , founder of the restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse. In the new book, Taylor recounts how he built the restaurant chain from the ground up after being rejected more than 80 times as he pitched the idea for the business.

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Taylor Taylorism Leadership Bottom-up 65

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Taylor Swift Workplace performance reviews Cheering on a sports team that’s not your usual team Whether hens lay eggs with or without the presence of a rooster (No joke! For example, “Listen, I know it might not be your intent, but saying things like that shuts down the innovation, creativity, and exchange of ideas we need.

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Politics How To Learning-by-Doing Power 475

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was always my friend. Self Leadership Dreams Innovation Inspiration' Oh, I did not actually know Sam personally. . But, his poetry made me feel like I was in a conversation with an old friend. I first met Sam when I had to memorize lines from his famous poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

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Taylor Taylorism Storytelling Airlines 303

Innovation Excellence

MAY 16, 2016

Taylor and Kay for engineering solutions around it? The truth is that there are many paths to innovation. So who deserves credit? Engelbart for coming up with the idea? Jobs for creating a marketable product that made an impact on the world? Strong arguments can be made for each, as well as for many others not mentioned here.

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Innovation Taylor Taylorism Engineering 76

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. He traces this dynamic back to Frederick Taylor, who was both an efficiency engineer and a fierce advocate of workplace democracy. Behave less hierarchically! Become a change agent!

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Open-book Books Learning-by-Doing Participative 273

Engaging Leader

APRIL 15, 2016

Great leaders don’t innovate products, they innovate the factory. From Frederick Taylor to Henry Ford, the industrial age was made by people who could envision the best way to design the organization around the product. Today, much of the world has moved […] Great leaders don’t innovate products, they innovate the factory.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 30, 2010

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 31, 2010

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Rogers Learning-by-Doing Blog Taylor 237

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

According to Robin Sharma , the author of The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life , anyone can be a leader.

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Review Books Self-aware Taylor 236

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Increases in oxytocin cause people to seek social contact with others (Taylor, 2002), so that a virtuous cycle of positive social interactions is created. Why Innovation is not "Invented Here". . Baker: Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks. . Related articles.

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Charisma Taylor Taylorism Social Capital 177

Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

From Frederick Winslow Taylor and his Principles of Scientific Management early in the 20th century to more modern practices like Six Sigma, executives continually honed their operations to achieve maximum productivity at minimal cost. For decades, managers have been focused on efficiency.

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Six Sigma Scientific Management Taylor Taylorism 85

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

3 Responses Chris Fillebrown , on January 1, 2010 at 8:07 pm said: In October of 2009 I started the Frame of Reference blog to focus on the innovation space. A new Leadership Development Carnival » Like Be the first to like this post. The articles speak to one type of leader in particular, the thought leader.

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Leadership Rogers Influence Taylor 200

Career Advancement

MAY 15, 2017

Client Taylor Asks: I asked my employees for honest feedback on my performance, and a few of them said I’m too authoritative in the way I speak to them. Rather, solicit their ideas for managing the change or devising innovative solutions. “Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. Misty Copeland. When the company’s in transition.

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Power Leadership Taylor Taylorism 195

Lead on Purpose

APRIL 10, 2010

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 18, 2010

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Strategy Sports Ethics Loyalty 196

CO2

OCTOBER 12, 2010

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? And at times it costs us money chasing down innovation at a cost of operational excellence. In renewing their values this year we hit a speed bump.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 8, 2010

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A personal note: This post is a tribute to Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse who tragically passed in March 2021. Kent Taylor, founder of Texas Roadhouse, not only openly admits that three of his first five restaurants failed, but he has a memento from each mounted behind his desk with a plaque detailing the money lost. .

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 23, 2009

In his book HALFTIME: Moving from Success to Significance , author Bob Buford explores three stages of life: The first half: On average, the first 40 years of your life.

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Review Books Taylor Taylorism 188

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

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Ethics Taylor Taylorism Godin 154

CEO Insider

APRIL 29, 2024

This realization happened recently while reading the book Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz. This is embarrassing, but I will admit it: I feel out of touch. Lorenz shares the history of influencers on the internet – primarily through social media – and how they impact our society.

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Lorenz Taylor Taylorism Magazine 111

Lead on Purpose

APRIL 20, 2010

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LDRLB

JULY 13, 2012

Since the industrial revolution and the theories of Fredrick Taylor, employers have tried countless ways to improve employee performance and drive motivation and moral. The nature of knowledge work has rendered much of Taylorism inadequate. Company environments differ significantly.

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Motivation Taylor Taylorism Performance Review 167

CO2

OCTOBER 16, 2010

via Questions Are The Answer | Management Innovation eXchange. She sends’em abroad on her own affairs, From the second she opens her eyes— One million Hows, two million Wheres, And seven million Whys! About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc., Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Innovation Management Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 79

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2010

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Leadership Bottom-up Long-term Taylor 170

CO2

DECEMBER 24, 2010

They have been studying over the past decade innovation within established organizations. In the process they have compiled perhaps the most extensive library of innovation case studies in the world. If you are struggling with innovation in your organization this is a must read. There is just one little problem.

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Execution Innovation Executive Coaching Govindarajan 74

Lead on Purpose

MARCH 8, 2010

Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. CEOs are praised for their vision. Top salespeople are rewarded with high commissions. The rewards for applied skill and hard work come quickly after the work is complete.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 25, 2022

Taylor, Jr. Taylor, the CEO and President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), shares his personal experiences and candid, compassionate and practical thoughts on how to transform the way to select, retain and train employees in today’s, post-COVID and radically changed business environment. Taylor, Jr.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 1, 2010

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 29, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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