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Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
RHD, a nonprofit we will meet in the next chapter, holds the principle that when there is room for salary increases, they should be disproportionately geared toward the lowest salaries first.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Intel was Grove’s laboratory for management innovation. He loved to teach, and the company reaped the benefits.* A few days after getting hired, I received a coveted invitation to Intel’s Organization, Philosophy, and Economics course, known as iOPEC, a seminar on Intel strategy and operations. Resident professor: Dr. Andy Grove.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Middle managers usually have been portrayed in recent literature as frustrated, disillusioned, stuck in the middle of a hierarchy in dreary jobs (Johnson and Frohman, 1989) with little hope of career progression, and increasingly subject to being replaced by technological advancements (Dopson and Stewart, 1990).1 Doomsayers argue, according to Boru
... See moreHirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Andy Grove’s quantum leap was to apply manufacturing production principles to the “soft professions,” the administrative, professional, and managerial ranks. He sought to “create an environment that values and emphasizes output”
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Performance Management: Measure and Improve The Effectiveness of Your Employees (Harvard Business Essentials)
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Executive team member Qualities Bert, CEO Hierarchical, micromanager, dominant, fear-driven, needs to be liked Carol, president of Consumer division Visionary, creative, disruptive, scattered, wants to stand on own feet Trent, president of Enterprise division Entrepreneurial, design thinker, systematic, found self after near-death experience Martin
... See moreNancy Duarte • HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (HBR Guide Series)
Leading Others Absolutely nothing is more valuable to an individual contributor at work than having a good leader. The leader makes the work experience more pleasant, facilitates the completion of tasks without undue stress, answers questions, and contributes to the development of their employees. An ineffective leader, however, makes the work expe
... See moreRam Charan, Stephen Drotter, James L. Noel, • The Leadership Pipeline
Allocating the best people to the right positions is a crucial, tough job that many executives slight, in part because the best people are already too busy.