What is the Next Big Thing?

Podcast link: http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2112

Description
Three Silicon Valley dealmakers - Tony Perkins, CEO of AlwaysOn; Tim Draper, Founder and Managing Director of Draper, Fisher Jurvetson; and Michael Moe, Founding Partner of ThinkEquity - discuss the evolutions in online media, the power of partnerships, and other next-generation opportunities for the global marketplace.

Noel Tichy | On Leader as Teacher

A Webcast with Noel Tichy Leader as Teacher


"Developing managers into leaders at all levels is the key to sustained success of any organization. The winning organizations will possess a "virtuous teaching cycle" where everyone teaches and everyone learns in order to provide the ideas, energy and the edge needed to make the right decisions.

This session will draw upon Noel Tichy's 25 years of research and real world application of leadership development at such organizations as GE, Ford, Shell, Cisco and others.

In his latest book, The Cycle of Leadership, Tichy shares the building blocks necessary to help leaders to become teachers and organizations to become teaching organizations.

You will learn:

• How to develop yourself as a leader and teacher
• How organizations can develop a Virtuous Teaching Cycle
• How to create interaction that generates knowledge and maximizes people's skills and talents"

Source: http://www.noeltichy.com/webcast.html


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Tom Siebel On Emerging Opportunities in a Post IT Marketplace

http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2110

Description: 

Tom Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle Corp) and current CEO of First Virtual Group, recaps a history of the information technology boom, and pronounces it a nearly stagnant sector. He focuses on the burgeoning interests in energy, healthcare, food and water, and other market possibilities to meet the needs of an expanding, aging, and more affluent global population.

"Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts."

The panel includes the following Harvard faculty members:

Robert Kaplan
Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
Jay Light
Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Business Administration & Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Gregory Mankiw
Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Robert Merton
John and Natty McArthur University Professor
Kenneth Rogoff
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Elizabeth Warren
Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

McKinsey on Mobilizing Minds

Chapter 1 (PDF - 682 KB)
Lowell L. Bryan and Claudia I. Joyce

"The essential lesson of Mobilizing Minds is that corporations must put the same energy used to launch new products and processes into their organizational design efforts. That's where the money is. That's where the opportunities lie. That's the key to surviving and prospering in the 21st century." Source Lowell L. Bryan and Claudia I. Joyce (Nov 10th, '08. lecture about Mobilizing Minds at the University of Toronto, Rotman School).

Warren Bennis on Warren Bennis

On Emotion & Judgement



On Crucibles



On Leadership Development

McKinsey's Ian Davis | On themes on the minds of global CEOs

Offshoring Means New Challenges for Promoting Managers

Video File, 35:06 minutes

[Executives who really understand different cultures are going to be in demand as well, Davis said. "It's not enough just to spend a couple of years working in two or three different countries. The number of people, particularly Americans [who've done that] and still don't have a global mindset is staggering." For Davis, the ultimate definition of a winning company would be one in which a person's nationality is practically irrelevant—where a manager could move from Malaysia or Sri Lanka to a head office in Chicago and be almost immediately productive. "It's a huge challenge," Davis said, "but that's what the mindset has to be."

A third skill 21st-century managers will need is diplomacy—the ability to influence events and persuade people while always being respected and trusted. "Trust," Davis predicted, "is going to become a massively important word [while] power, status, hierarchy—hopefully, those are going to be dead words in 15 years' time." ]

Source: Stanford GSB - Nov05