Co-Editors Louis Carter, Roland L. Sullivan, Marshall Goldsmith, David Ulrich, and Norm Smallwood Change Agents Will Shift Between: Students Teachers Detectives Barbarians Clocks Talismans Advocates Challengers Best Chapters and Links to Their Notes: 1.2 Driving Cultural Transformation During Large Scale Change 1.4 Navigating the White Water of Organization-Wide Change: Best Practice Principles for Change Management […]
Thomas Siebel, 2019 Chapter 1: Punctuated Equilibrium Punctuated Equilibrium — change happens in bursts, we’re in one now Don’t focus on growth, focus on creating revolutions Chapter 2: Digital Transformation Transform or die Waves of change Digitalization (using computers at all, up to the 80s) The Internet (90s – today) Today’s digital transformation is the […]
P(Innovation) = P(Ideas) x P(Being Heard) Diversity = and increased probability of new ideas Inclusion = an increased probability that those ideas will be heard and pursued. Innovation requires that new ideas be successfully pursued. This formula is a succinct argument that diversity and inclusion directly leads increases the probability of innovation within a company.
2020 Goals: Ten Year Goal (“I want to be known for…”) Successfully bringing new technologies to the senior living industry Five Year Goals (I want to have tried…”) To lead a team within my current employer To do at least one project within every LOB of my current employer To have led at least one […]
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, 2015 My notes 1. Creating Blue Oceans Value Innovation p 13 Differentiation and low cost simultaneously Align innovation with utility, price, and cost Creates value in an innovative way, basically 2. Analytical Tools and Frameworks Strategy Canvas Four actions framework Reconstruct Market Boundaries Path 1: Look across alternative industries […]
By John Doerr Overall notes: Planning stage matters, dramatically, if you’re truly using them to focus and say no to other things They should enable you to say no, or at least to ask if this gets me closer or farther from my goal Cadence matters, quarterly mostly, so you can more quickly pivot if […]
Quotes worth referencing: p. 6 They show that statistically, the more data driven a firm is, the more productive it is. p. 9 What can I now do that I couldn’t do before, or do better than I could before? p. 13 Understanding data science is critical, because “unlike other technical projects, data science is supporting […]
By Susan Cain Key takeaways: Being introverted is good, but introvert/extrovert pairs work well Groupthink is awful Open offices with no quiet spaces are awful Be careful of heeding the loudest voice Take notes on the areas about how to raise a good kid (I think the chapter about temperament) Intro They prefer to devote […]
“Combining these seemingly conflicting principles produced characteristics of English political culture: suspicion of Utopias and zealots; trust in common sense and experience; respect for tradition; preference for gradual change; and the view that ‘compromise’ is victory, not betrayal.”
Changes in Chicago, how to be perfect, distractions vs. concentration, and teriyaki chicken.