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A Leadership’s Judgment

Lead from Within

In 2000 under the leadership of CEO John Chambers, Cisco was at the top of the game. Then in early 2001 came an industry-wide crash, and suddenly Cisco was near death. By 2002, it was down to $9.42. But this CEO whose leadership transformed and revitalized the company was the same one who was at the helm when it tanked.

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Memo to Meg Whitman: 4 Tips for Tackling HP

Harvard Business Review

I studied IBM and HP (and your former company, eBay) for my 2001 book, Evolve. and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. If decisions are uncertain, use certainty of process to say when you'll communicate what to whom.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002).

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Creating a Culture of Unconditional Love

Harvard Business Review

But we all know what happened in 2001. As that dramatic disintegration played out in early 2002, I had to present our office’s results and perspectives at the firm’s annual partners’ meeting in Switzerland. They can reverse-engineer your processes. That’s the standard process, and it remains intact today.

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The Key to a “Whole Person Culture”

Great Leadership By Dan

They were happy to accommodate her as she went through the process, however they declined her request that the company educate all employees on what IVF is like and what to say and not to say. Susan Scott is a best-selling author, popular and sought-after Fortune 100 public speaker, and renowned leadership development architect.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. By 2001, many charities that were still counting on pledged donations and found themselves left in a lurch (though it was also their fault for not casting other nets for funding and being too dependent upon Enron).

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How Emotional Intelligence Became a Key Leadership Skill

Harvard Business Review

It took almost a decade after the term was coined for Rutgers psychologist Daniel Goleman to establish the importance of emotional intelligence to business leadership. My research, along with other recent studies, clearly shows that emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.