Month: November 2012
Linda Sharkey is a proven leader with experience in Fortune 10 companies building teams and driving talent development initiatives that support productivity and company growth. She has specific expertise in culture transformation, developing high potential leaders and building proven talent…
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The way I heard it, Coach Bryant told the following story at a Touchdown Club meeting many years before his death. * * * I had just been named the new head coach at Alabama and was off in my…
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win Steven Gary Blank Quad/Graphics (Third Edition, 2007) Here is “a radical reexamination of the entire new product introduction process”…and almost everything that precedes it Note: The review that…
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An interview of Peter B. Vaill conducted by Kerry A. Bunker and Laura Curnutt Santana is included in Extraordinary Leadership: Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development published by Jossey-Bass (2010). Here is a brief excerpt: “By ‘permanent white water,’…
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Enterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business Michael Hugos O’Reilly Media (2012) How games can help business leaders to respond more effectively to crises as well as to opportunities Games may well be the first non-violent activity…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article from The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company and written by Ananth Narayanan, Asutosh Padhi, and Jim Williams, in which they explain how leading companies combine insights about customers, competitors, and…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nate Steere for mint.com. When I stumbled upon it, I was informed that Mint “makes your life easier. At Mint, we believe money is for living. So we make everything simple…
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The Leader’s Pocket Guide: 101 Indispensable Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Any Situation John Baldoni AMACOM (2012) Valuable reminders for effective leadership at all levels and in all areas of the given enterprise Those who have read one or more of John Balboni’s previous…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tony Schwartz for the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * No…
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And the winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012 is…
Steve Coll’s Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, published by Penguin Press and Allen Lane. The book is a hard-hitting investigation of the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and closing with the Deepwater…
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