Monday, August 2, 2010

Saturday, July 31: Day 7

Policy Development II
  Three Organizational Models

Key Take Aways...
  • People follow leaders.  Great video.  Candid Camera Prank http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/710170/
  • Brain functions.  The brain waves to "look back" are the same ones we use to "look forward." The brain uses what we've learned in the past to help us predict what we will see in the future.  It causes a bias--we will expect what we've seen in the past.  For example, the CIA thinking Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction before so he will have them again. 
  • Most effective ways to learn something.  Here is the order of most effective learning techniques from most effective to least effective--Experience, Emotion, Knowledge, Intuition, Conscious Thought and then Language. 
  • Tip from Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense (from Dave at DOD) regarding working with press.  Get to the press early, and always be ready with an accountability step. 


Implementing Strategy II
  GE Talent Machine
  Making of a CEO ALCOA

Key Take Aways...



  • People matter a lot!  Per Jack Welch...Nothing can be accomplished without people.  They are your strategic leverage.  Jack would spend 40% of his time on HR issues.
People


Guided Tour of Boston
Dinner:  Top of the Hub

Photo:  Me at Prudential Building.  Location of Top of the Hub.

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