Alan Webber: How to Survive and Thrive in Turbulent Times

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Partner:: Japan Society
Location:: U.S.-Japan Innovators Network
New York, NY
Event Date:: 04.22.09
Speakers:: Polly LaBarre,; Alan Webber
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Summary: Alan Webber discusses his new book, Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Yourself. In it, Webber reflects on 40 years of experience as observer, participant and agent provocateur, illuminating 52 rules of thumb on what it takes to innovate and lead in these extraordinary times.

Webber is co-founder of Fast Company magazine, an award-winning business journalist and a member of the U.S.-Japan Innovators Network.

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Polly LaBarre

Polly LaBarre is an author, writer, speaker, and television correspondent. She is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win.

Currently, LaBarre is a business and innovation correspondent for CNN.

As a member of the original team of Fast Company magazine, LaBarre played a central role in the remarkable success of a magazine that changed the way leaders at all levels think about working and winning and earned a passionate following around the world. LaBarre's writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Fast Company and the New York Times. She is a co-author of The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable (Portfolio, 2005).

As the editorial director of Women 2.0, a web documentary project currently in development with the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation, she helped to create an innovative platform for chronicling women's movements around the globe and advancing the cause of gender equality. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Alan Webber

Alan Webber co-founded Fast Company after spending six years as the managing editor/editorial director of the Harvard Business Review (HBR). During his tenure at HBR, the business magazine was named finalist three times for the National Magazine Awards.

Webber went to the Harvard Business School in 1981 to serve as a senior research assistant and project coordinator on the auto industry in America. The project culminated in a book called Changing Alliances. Prior to that, Webber served as special assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation in Washington, D.C.

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01.: Introduction

03 min 18 sec

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02.: Why This Book Now?

06 min 52 sec

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03.: Clues of How to Play the Game

01 min 37 sec

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04.: Defining Success and the Right Way to Win

04 min 40 sec

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05.: Rule #5: Change is a Math Formula

03 min 07 sec

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06.: CEOs in America Today

03 min 40 sec

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07.: Speed as a Strategy

05 min 06 sec

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08.: Capturing the World's Imagination

04 min 49 sec

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09.: Simplicity: One More Is Too Many

04 min 07 sec

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10.: Rule #52: Stay Alert: There Are Teachers Everywhere

04 min 25 sec

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11.: Rule #53 Suggestions

01 min 37 sec

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12.: Q1: Who Has Moral Authority?

01 min 33 sec

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13.: Q2: Making Mistakes and Scrutinization

04 min 56 sec

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14.: Q3: Permanent Values Change

04 min 38 sec

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15.: Q4: Deeper Learning

03 min 23 sec

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16.: Q5: Self-Perception

05 min 51 sec

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17.: Multiple Questions

10 min 25 sec

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Protective Bubble: The Sheltered World of Modern Day CEOs

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Rule #52: Stay Alert! There Are Teachers Everywhere

03 min 53 sec

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