LDRLB

AUGUST 13, 2012

A team of economic researchers led by Harvard University’s Roland Fryer (and including Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame) recently flipped the incentive model on its head and tested on one of the most incentive-resistant professions in America: schoolteachers. A recent economic paper might have found such as way.

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Incentives Creativity Levitt Drucker 133

The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” Theodore Levitt said, “The future belongs to those who see opportunities before they become obvious.” The post Learn Like A Leader appeared first on Mark Sanborn Keynote Leadership Speaker. Americans spend more money each year on beer than the do on books. When in doubt, check it out.

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Learning-by-Doing Drucker Levitt Education 72

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 2, 2011

Leadership: In essence, leaders attract followers so that [.]. After having read and reviewed so many business books, I now share brief comments about what I consider to be the 25 most valuable business insights and the books in which they are either introduced or (one man’s opinion) best explained. Here are the third five: 11.

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Review Books Leadership Mintzberg 85

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” To avoid that, Levitt exhorted leaders to ask themselves the seemingly obvious question – “What business are you really in?” Innovation Leadership Strategy' No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

There certainly is no shortage of candidates from our nine decades of publishing — from Ted Levitt's "Marketing Myopia" to Michael Porter's "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.". And so, in that spirit, we've asked several prominent readers to identify the most valuable idea they have learned from the pages of HBR.

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Levitt Porter Management Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Grove’s 1980 question remains as ruthlessly relevant to C-suites as Ted Levitt’s 1960 classic, “What business are you in?” ” or my “Who do you want your customers to become?”

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Most people just lower their expectations because it’s easier than dealing with the real issues at hand,” says Brian Uzzi, professor of leadership and organizational change at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and author of the HBR article, “ Make Your Enemies Your Allies.” Case study#1: Find a common purpose.

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Levitt Price Class Case Study 15

Reality-Based Leadership

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Our Reality-Based Leadership team has gathered a list of our favorite reads that will have a bit of something for everyone, from books on business leadership and change, to motivational and self-reflection topics, to great authors like Brene Brown and Simon Sinek. Levitt and Stephen J. Go ahead, you deserve it!

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Books Simon Cialdini Levitt 40

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

We all need to learn from Jack by dropping the politically correct approach to leadership by just doing the right thing. Steve Levitt - Author of Freakanomics and Super Freakanomics , Steve was superb. Jack’s belief for the need to “ lead change before you have to &# is a mantra for leaders to live by.

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Blog Collins Blue Ocean Strategy Video 353