Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

I first became aware of Les Hayman in July 2012 when I read his excellent guest post for Gurprriet Siingh – “ Transforming HR – How a CEO did it.” You’ll find much practical advice, whether you are a CEO or desire to be a better leader at any level. ” Les was uniquely qualified to write this post.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

My entry into Reality-Based Leadership started with the Open-Door Policy. Designed to prepare me for my new organizational role, it was a crash course in the current conventional wisdom around leadership. Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, international leadership speaker, and consultant. Shut the Conventional Door. An open door?

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

In 1999, while working as VP of Software Development for Interface Systems, he had his next “ah ha” moment, when he discovered a new approach to building teams that could result in lasting change and restore the joy he originally felt when he found his calling. Leadership More Human Podcast'

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 17, 2011

Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell’s Soup (2001 to 2011) knows how to stay on task; all successful leaders do. He’s setting up his office in Philadelphia after retiring from Campbell’s on July 31. When he picked up the phone, he was unpacking boxes. I asked him what was happening in his life. Doug has a [.].

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 2, 2016

To develop gratitude in his character and boost his own happiness, productivity and creativity, Harvard psychology professor Tal Ben-Shahar keeps a diary where each day he records three things for which he is grateful. Three Actions You Can Take to Develop Gratitude as a Leader. Examples of Gratitude in Action.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2019

The primary job of each leader is to help people be more effective in their job and to grow and develop. Schmidt served as Google CEO and chairman from 2001 until 2011, google executive chairman from 2011 to 2015, and Alphabet executive chairman from 2015 to 2018. Your people make you a leader. Only coach the coachable.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 7, 2015

Attendees will hear from political, cultural and business pioneers including Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, All Pro football player Peyton Manning, renown author and speaker Seth Godin, former Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, CEO of SAP AE Bill McDermott and more. . Leadership Author and Communicator ? Register at

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Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

This is CEO Shigetaka Komari's own story of why Fujifilm succeeded where Eastman Kodak failed with hard-won lessons for managers and employees everywhere. In 2001, the global demand for color film suddenly plunged. Can't Get Enough Leadership. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. .

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 18, 2010

As the Navy improved sailor retention and developed greater alignment with Admiral Clark’s vision, it became faster and more responsive. Within a matter of hours following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, aircraft carriers, Aegis destroyers, and cruisers were in position to protect America’s shores. Posting your comment.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The primary job of each leader is to help people be more effective in their job and to grow and develop. Schmidt served as Google CEO and chairman from 2001 until 2011, google executive chairman from 2011 to 2015, and Alphabet executive chairman from 2015 to 2018. Your people make you a leader. Only coach the coachable.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Before the energy conglomerate’s collapse in 2001, I had the opportunity to review Enron’s values. When I conducted leadership training for J&J, one of its very top executives spent many hours with every class. See “Leadership Is a Contact Sport,” by Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan, s+b, Fall 2004.)

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. "Hard to Believe But Impossible to Forget" [link].

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Special Edition 65 – An Interview with Ed Reilly, editor of AMA Business Boot Camp explores today’s management and leadership challenges and the fundamentals that will help those in these senior positions achieve ongoing career success. Ed Reilly is the 17th President and CEO of the American Management Association International.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

This methodology has lead to many books and discussions about how Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and his team went about creating their organization’s culture and with it, their rules of conduct. Consider, for example, the release of the first iPod by Apple back in October 2001.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Besides, companies need to develop their own plans. When the recession of 2001 hit, I had to restructure my business. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., I told my friend that the sequence was wrong. Visioning comes first. Then the plan.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders build the Vision bridge by developing and communicating a mission, set of values, and reputation that connect with employees. Leaders build the Voice bridge by developing processes and practices that keep employees “in the loop” and give them regular opportunities to express their views. Connecting the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

I began my tenure as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001 with the mandate to turn around an iconic but struggling consumer products company. Soon after, I asked Gallup to conduct an engagement survey of our leadership to assess the level of personal commitment employees felt toward the organization and its goals.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

It may well be why so many (incompetent) men rise ahead of women to leadership positions, as Chamorro-Premuzic argued in a recent HBR post. Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. Be passionately curious.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But building a consistently strong top leadership team is difficult for at least three reasons: the tendency to be loyal to existing members, the lack of management depth to promote from, and many CEOs’ lack of experience in many functional areas. Back in 2001, it was growing rapidly. Four months later the CEO fired him.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The CEO as Lead Product Designer. For example, the now ubiquitous and much beloved Fiat 500 was first unveiled by Sergio Marchionne, no stranger to showmanship, at the Geneva Motorshow in 2004 following the buzz generated by the 2001 re-launch of the Mini-Cooper by BMW. For that, CEOs must move beyond showmanship.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. Here are some of GE’s principles for achieving those essential aims: A leadership institute should reflect the company’s leadership ideals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Being treated with respect had a more powerful effect on employees than other more celebrated leadership behaviors including recognition and appreciation, communicating an inspiring vision, providing useful feedback — even opportunities for learning, growth, and development. Set Expectations. People valuing Campbell.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

During my conversations with CEOs, it always comes to a point where they say: “I want to leave a legacy.” ” Any CEO would be satisfied with the business legacy left by Ingvar Kamprad, the IKEA founder who died last weekend. But how did it hit on this winning strategy? Quite the contrary.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. In an earlier blog post , I observed that CEOs seemed to be rewarded handsomely for downsizing and outsourcing, acquiring or merging, and making the quarter — all justified by the responsibility to maximize shareholder value.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Organizational leadership, we tend to assume, is akin to spatial navigation: Either leaders know where to take their company, and how to take it there — or they don't. At Microsoft, Eichenwald argues, leaders established "a corporate culture that by 2001 was heading down the path of self-immolating chaos."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. Research & development Financial management' So what was going on?

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

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. But this CEO whose leadership transformed and revitalized the company was the same one who was at the helm when it tanked. © 2013 Lolly Daskal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. On the first day of his new job as CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella sent a powerful message to his employees. Now it’s less than 15 years. ” The tension in the room was palpable.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

CEOs of average companies, in comparison, scored at about the 68th percentile. Jobs was so impressed that he took his entire programming team on a tour of PARC and returned to Apple hell-bent on developing a personal computer that both incorporated and improved upon the technologies he and his team saw. Lafley became CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

But in a world where most companies don’t operate on the frontiers of digital transformation, and most employees aren’t tech geeks or app developers, our appetite for unconventional talent strategies should probably extend to more conventional parts of the economy. It’s the same for us.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

It's great advice - what a simple yet powerful way to improve your leadership effectiveness and relationships! Back in 2001, in the article "Executive Control of Cognitive Processes in Task Switching," found in the Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, Vol 27. Multi-Tasking: Is It Worth It?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001. ” These trust taxes and dividends are real and essential for leaders to understand as they develop their trust-building competence. How to Develop the Trust-Building Skill. Was this a prison?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Dear Meg: Becoming CEO of Hewlett-Packard is almost as big a deal as being Governor of California (your previous aspiration ) — and just as political. I studied IBM and HP (and your former company, eBay) for my 2001 book, Evolve. It struggled through an expense control era of cost-cutting under former CEO Mark Hurd.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

When I was head of leadership development for Ford Motor Company (from 1999 to 2001), we successfully implemented a program, called Total Leadership , that built on these basic principles. My teaching focuses instead on "performance," "results," and "leadership." act with integrity by respecting the whole person.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. Collaborative innovation models require you to trust the creativity and intelligence of your employees, your clients and other members of your innovation network," said Sam Palmisano, IBM's CEO, in a press release.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In 2007 AOL and Time Warner finally pulled the plug on the $350 billion 2001 merger that Time Warner chiefs Jeff Bewkes and Gerald Levin later called “ the biggest mistake in corporate history.”. In the popular mind, there’s a lot of luck and inspired leadership behind successful choices like Southwest’s.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. HBR: Why did you decide to pursue a sustainability agenda?

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