Michael McKinney

JUNE 2, 2023

Sign 1: A change in the business environment The most obvious signal that it’s time for a change is a large-scale shift in the business environment. His new book (co-authored with Marianna Zangrillo) is The Next Leadership Team: How to Select, Build, and Optimize Your Top Team.

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Peter Winick

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

An Author’s Journey Writing Two Books for Two Very Different Audiences In this episode, Chantal Roberts shares with us how she went about writing a highly technical book for a technical audience, and a general book on the same topic for a more common audience.

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Peter Winick

MAY 20, 2024

In this episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership, host Bill Sherman engages with Steve Wunker, Managing Director of New Market Advisors and co-author of the groundbreaking book The Innovative Leader: Step-By-Step Lessons from Top Innovators for You and Your Organization. Transcript Bill Sherman Who’s going to read your business book?

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Peter Winick

JANUARY 18, 2024

His newest book is For the Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be. While launching the book Marcus chose to eat his own dog food, taking the same approach to his book launch as he would launch a client’s product. He’s got a couple books out. So tell us about the latest book.

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Michael McKinney

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 These transformations typically involve a profound change in how a business operates, encompassing people, process, and technology.

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Chief Executive

JANUARY 4, 2023

While it’s long been true that fast-growth firms face extraordinary enterprise-wide challenges as they scale, the ongoing upheaval in the labor market has sharpened the focus of senior leaders on one particular business function, human resources. Embrace a strategic approach. Maintain a razor-sharp focus.

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Peter Winick

MAY 8, 2024

In this episode of the Thought Leadership Leverage podcast, host Peter Winick sits down with Robert Hargrove, founder and CEO of Masterful Coaching, co-founder of the Harvard Leadership Project, and author often influential books, including “Masterful Coaching.”

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Growth Institute

MAY 18, 2022

The pay-in-advance model is one of the five customer-funded models successful companies commonly use to scale up without needing to rely on investors. In fact, in most years the membership fees Costco collects cover about two-thirds of their operating profit. These benefits include: Only requiring the order and an initial payment.

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AIHR

AUGUST 2, 2024

This transformation can vary in scale, occurring in just a few days or unfolding over the course of a year. This software integrated the organization’s Employee File Management system with the recruiting module of its HRIS, allowing for streamlined HR operations and automation of the offer letter process. Example 3: Nikkei Inc.

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Peter Winick

JUNE 17, 2024

In this riveting episode of the Thought Leadership Leverage podcast, host Bill Sherman engages with Martin Gonzalez, the co-author of the best-selling book “The Bonfire Moment” and the visionary behind Google’s “The Effective Founders Project.” Today I speak with Martin Gonzalez. Let’s begin.

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Mike Griffiths

JUNE 9, 2019

As software becomes more critical to business operations and product offerings we are seeing that software projects do not end. This is where product development books can help.   Then when I recently read a third book about product development shift I thought it could be useful to review some of the books in the market.

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Peter Winick

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Lori shares her insights on bringing about large-scale business changes, from building momentum to bringing people on-board with the shift in mindset. Lori has guided many businesses and leaders through this kind of process, and has learned a great deal about organizations undergoing large-scale change. It lives in books.

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Peter Winick

APRIL 8, 2024

His insights are tailored for middle management professionals tasked with organizing work for their teams, regardless of the industry they operate in. Anton’s journey from training to writing his book reflects his commitment to validating ideas through real-world applications. Bill Sherman You say the book is for everyone.

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Peter Winick

JULY 8, 2024

Cobe also discusses his upcoming book, “Interrupting Violence: One Man’s Journey to Heal the Streets and Redeem Himself,” co-authored with Josh Gryniewicz. The book aims to inspire others by sharing Cobe’s personal journey and the lessons he’s learned in violence prevention. To where you are today.

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Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Kon takes us through a series of milestones, including publishing his first book, having to take that material to scale, and finding success that had his audience asking new questions — forcing him to continually expand his thinking and problem-solving. I’m Bill Sherman and you’re listening to Leveraging Thought Leadership.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Hi readers, I’m so, so excited that my upcoming book is dropping in one week, on December 7!! The Cold Start Problem , as the book is called, is about the secret that drives many of tech’s most successful products. The Hard Side of a network is, by definition, hard to scale.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. The world is still changing, so Google published a new edition: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition.

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Peter Winick

JULY 22, 2022

The book’s research investigates 7 million US start-up companies over the last decade , and provides a keen look into the how’s and why’s of their success. And if you need help scaling organizational thought leadership, contact Thought Leadership Leverage or reach out to Bill Sherman on Linkedin! Transcript.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The book, What a Unicorn Knows , offers a field-tested approach to delivering superior customer value and reaching unicorn status by removing the potential inhibitors to organizational scale and speed. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Peter Winick

DECEMBER 16, 2024

I don’t need a book chapter. And so those talks I can do a talk on one of my latest book. You’re working on operational efficiency and you’re working on customer experience. It’s about defining what it is, your operational definitions. And maybe I can go out and scale the head movement.

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Peter Winick

MARCH 18, 2024

This evolution was further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which provided an opportunity for Ebrahim to foster critical dialogue between private and public sector organizations on a national and global scale. We often think of thought leadership at the large scale the white paper, the book or the keynote speech.

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Mike Griffiths

JUNE 22, 2022

This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. There are over 70,000 published English-language books on leadership. Unlike many leadership books available, we will not cover leading companies or organizational change; instead, we will focus on leading projects and programs to deliver desired outcomes.

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Peter Winick

AUGUST 15, 2023

Cultivating allies and ambassadors to aid in taking ideas to scale. ” Can collaborating help thought leadership content reach scale and create greater impact? She helps us define what allies and ambassadors are and how they can help take ideas to scale or even create a movement that would be unachievable alone.

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Kotter Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

Yet, many continue to operate the same way they have for the last decade if not longer. The modern organizational framework with its traditional hierarchical structure was designed to allow organizations to scale dramatically and to deal with global complexity.

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AIHR

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Take a moment to look at one part of the dashboard which is excerpted from our book “The CMO of People: Manage Employees Like Customers With an Immersive Predictable Experience That Drives Productivity and Performance”. Are we gaining economies of scale as we grow? Let’s consider the section of the dashboard devoted to Org Structure.

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Peter Winick

MARCH 9, 2023

Unless you are writing a book with a co-author or ghostwriter, it probably feels like a very lonely task. Our guest today is Jeremy Madsen, Operations Manager for BK Authors an author group affiliated with the award–winning publisher Berrett-Koehler. A publication date has no bearing on the importance or usefulness of a book.

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Growth Hacker

DECEMBER 5, 2022

While the North Star Metric and following objectives should guide the operation and future market impact, allowing for fast experimentation and quick decision-making, the OKRs will serve as a common representation of said impact, translated to business metrics and results. Ex: Conversion rate optimization of a landing page.

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Peter Winick

MARCH 30, 2023

An interview with Michael McFall about how his books became the manual for franchise hopefuls. He is also the author of Grind: A No-B t Approach to Take Your Business from Concept to Cash Flow and has a second book coming soon, entitled: Grow: Take Your Business from Chaos to Calm. Peter Winick So, books like yours.

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UVA Darden

JANUARY 12, 2023

Operations & Technology. While most startups need to scale to somewhat larger organizations for that kind of outcome, the work of tech usually has more to do with getting the right team of seven to 12 people together and giving them the autonomy they need than it does with building a large command and control organization. Alex Cowan.

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AIHR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the past century, Human Resource Management has made a dramatic shift from an operational discipline to a more strategic one. Importance of HR analytics Leveraging data has become essential to expanding HR’s role within organizations by moving it from an operational function to a strategic partner.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. We then called these hosts to help them convert their requests into bookings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. In their book, the authors use eight themes to offer guidance on how to change perspective and view the enterprise as a living organization, enabled by technology.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Or are you trying to scale its success? In this essay, I’ll aim to answer this critical question — how do you hire a Head of Growth — using parts of framework from my upcoming first book, The Cold Start Problem. The framework for the book starts with an empirical insight: Most networks fail at the beginning.

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AIHR

APRIL 1, 2024

The relative worth corresponds to a ranking, which then corresponds to pay scales (called wage grids). Jobs are evaluated by the extent to which they meet these criteria, and the total number of points indicates the job’s score and ranking within the organization’s hierarchy and pay scale. FAQ What is job evaluation?

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Peter Winick

JULY 11, 2024

How do I scale? Do I need to scale? I’m like, oh my gosh, I didn’t realize how much I really love the process of writing, which is why I birth, you know, books and yes, all of that. So it’s like I asked and then I’ve got a full book of business. So isn’t just, hey, I lead a team now.

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Peter Winick

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Winston explains that teams need to be able to step out of their bubble in order to better understand how the other functions in your company operate, and their value to your work and to the whole. And if you need help scaling organizational thought leadership, contact Thought Leadership Leverage or reach out to Bill Sherman on Linkedin!

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Let’s start by looking at where the service economy is right now and why it’s resisted a full scale transformation by software. These marketplaces were enabled by widespread mobile adoption, making it possible to book a service or accept a job with the tap of a button. Five strategies for unlocking supply in regulated markets.

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