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Charles Jacobs
Author, Management Rewired:
Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science
http://www.managementrewired.com/theauthor/
Monday’s keynote speaker is Charles S. Jacobs, the founder of the Amherst Consulting Group, founder and managing partner of 180 Partners, and the author of Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science. His latest book received an 800 CEO-READ Business Book Award of 2009 and was named one of The Best IT-Business Books of 2009 by CIO Insight Magazine. For over two decades, he has helped the leadership of the most renowned corporations improve the performance of their businesses. He numbers among his clients fifty of the Fortune 100, and has worked in Europe, Asia, and the U.S.
His unique approach enables managers to use the new understanding of how the brain works to comprehensively rethink their businesses, creating more robust competitive strategies and the performance-oriented organizations needed to implement them. His work provides the key to overcome the number one obstacle to meaningful improvement in business performance—the rapid and effective management of change.
He is sought after for print, broadcast, and internet interviews. His seminars and speeches offer an overview of the stunning discoveries of brain science and the direct, practical application of those discoveries to management. He completed his B.A., M.A., and work toward his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.
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Peter Sims
Author, Little Bets and True North
http://petersims.com/
Tuesday’s keynote speaker is Peter Sims, author of Little Bets (coming from Simon & Schuster: Free Press, 2011) which is about discovering new ways of doing things. Specifically, the book sifts through the inner-workings of various creative processes to understand how new ideas evolve from an unlikely collection of people, ranging from filmmakers at Pixar, to counterinsurgency Army strategists operating in the Middle East, to the architect Frank Gehry, to savvy CEOs and entrepreneurs like Amazon's Jeff Bezos, to stand-up comedians, and the rapidly growing field of design thinking. Previously, he was coauthor with Bill George of True North, the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek best-selling book that The New York Times called "one of the most important books on leadership to come along in years." His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and USA Today and he has spoken at and advised organizations such as Eli Lilly, Molson Coors, Current TV, Qualcomm, and Frost & Sullivan.
Before becoming an entrepreneur and accidental author, Peter was part of the founding team that established the European Office of Summit Partners, a global investment company. He received an A.B., magna cum laude, from Bowdoin College and an M.B.A. from Stanford. He lives in San Francisco and his great-great-great grandfather, Jacob Gundlach, founded Gundlach Bundschu in Sonoma, California's oldest family-owned winery, run today by his cousins who, unlike Peter, actually know something about wine.
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