The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 4, 2019

CEOs are perhaps never more vulnerable than when they first enter the role. The first of these is when the stock market reacts badly to the appointment, while the second is if the previous CEO remains at the company as the chair of the board. No silver bullet. ” Social influence. . ” Social influence. .

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CEO Succession Audience Influence 59

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 4, 2010

I was going through some papers that take me back to 2001-2002 and I saw this phrase, “Be Bold In Life&#. home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Be Bold In Life. Well I did. Unported License.

Licensing 261

Licensing Ethics Career Executive Coaching 261

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Behind communication skills, the other skills employers ranked as most important for recent MBA graduates were teamwork, technical, leadership, and managerial skills. The study was conducted by Canadian-based Leger Marketing in association with the Schulich School of Business at York University and other Canadian business schools.

Skills 164

Skills Survey Teamwork Education 164

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2019

Trillion Dollar Coach is about Bill Campbell , someone you likely never heard of, who coached several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley during a 16-year tenure, and who’s behind-the-scene wisdom helped created over a trillion dollars in market value.

Open-book 50

Open-book Leadership Bond Executive Coaching 50

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. From the 1980s into the 1990s, a persistent struggle with Kodak was waged for world market share. In 2001, the global demand for color film suddenly plunged. Related articles.

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Film Crisis Innovation Brand 70

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Trillion Dollar Coach is about Bill Campbell , someone you likely never heard of, who coached several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley during a 16-year tenure, and who’s behind-the-scene wisdom helped created over a trillion dollars in market value.

Bond 65

Bond Open-book Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 65

Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

In 2001, Page and Brin hired their first CEO, Eric Schmidt, who had a Ph.D. in computer science and twenty years of management experience in tech companies; most recently, he had been the CEO of Novell. They settled on an unusual power-sharing arrangement.

Advertising 84

Advertising Outsourcing Engineering Information Technology 84

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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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 404

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.

Advertising 64

Advertising Competitive Advantage CEO Career 64

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.

Succession 210

Succession Goal Objective Technology 210

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Some years ago, the then-CEO of Air Products told me that it took his team two months to decide and plan layoffs, two weeks to do them, and two years to recover. As former Procter & Gamble CEO A. But that's not what goes on.

CEO 13

CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

He had inherited a thriving soft drink bottling business from his father, and by marketing it to South America he grew the company significantly. He introduced me to a company that was opening up a new market in Atlanta. When the recession of 2001 hit, I had to restructure my business. The president of this company was his son.

Real Estate 81

Real Estate Strategic Planning Video Blog 81

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. This spirit is exemplified by executives like Akio Toyoda, the CEO of Toyota, who worked his way up the through the ranks from the assembly line. Some CEOs do get UX.

Leadership 8

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. We explore this question by looking at CEOs’ decisions about corporate diversification over the last three decades. To test our argument, we collected data on 2,031 CEOs who ran 640 large U.S.

Influence 9

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 9

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. billion in revenues.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5

CEO 12

CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 12

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.”

Commitment 8

Commitment CEO Report Learning-by-Doing 8

Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

In 2000 under the leadership of CEO John Chambers, Cisco was at the top of the game. For a couple of days its market cap was number one in the world. Then in early 2001 came an industry-wide crash, and suddenly Cisco was near death. The post A Leadership’s Judgment appeared first on Lolly Daskal.

Crisis 158

Crisis Planning Learning-by-Doing Workshop 158

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. Can Cook do this? Before A.G.

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

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. So what was going on?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

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.

Development 8

Development Self-aware Press Release Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Recently published reports on the slips and stumbles of two much-heralded companies provide a close look at some of the internal dynamics that can undermine optimal decision-making and effective execution — even within organizations that have a history of market-leading performance.

Long-term 14

Long-term Short-term Engineering Price 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

As a recent example, a simple background check would have saved the Yahoo board the trouble of ousting Scott Thompson , the company's fourth CEO in five years, because he falsely claimed a computer science degree. Jeff Skilling, as a condition of his employment at Enron, insisted the company adopt mark-to-market accounting.

Management 12

Management Banking Committee Risk Management 12

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

When global marketing firm McCann Worldgroup surveyed 1,000 individuals in the U.S. between the ages of 16-30 years old in 2001, it found more than 90 percent of those surveyed rated “connection and community” as their greatest need. Catmull cares for people and cares for results.

Stress 150

Stress Mentor Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

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.

Tips 10

Tips CEO Software Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

On the first day of his new job as CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella sent a powerful message to his employees. The CEO of a prominent Silicon Valley company, let’s call him Peter, got to unexpectedly act as a role model for Box 2 decision making at a recent off-site. He saw the club as a symbol for “superficial congeniality.”

Company 8

Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

It's been nearly a year since Nokia CEO Stephen Elop shot off his burning platform memo as a way of shaking up the phone company's leadership. Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. Look at profit margin trends.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

More than half the people working in the corporate world are women but only 3% are in the CEO position of the fortune 500 and that is not going to change by sitting on the side lines. KW: I lost my job in the 2001 dot.com bust and decided to start my own consulting company. Why aren’t half of CEOs women?

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Project Participative Workshop Commitment 240

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.

Hedge 8

Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

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. We can use practices from Doug’s approach to the trust-building competency over his 40-year leadership career as a case study for the behaviors leaders should develop as they work to build and sustain trust.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Commitment Report Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. What is most telling is the restrictive and uncreative cultural climates created by CEOs and other senior managers. In 2001, Xilinx's business drop like a rock.

Senge 8

Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

CO2

AUGUST 2, 2011

He is also the founder and CEO of Kralev International LLC , a travel consulting and training company. In 2001, I was the State Department Correspondent for the Washington Times. A former Financial Times and Washington Times correspondent, he has traveled around the world with four U.S. What brought you to write this book?

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Travel Books Airlines Budgeting 98

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. Food and Drug Administration ban on saccharine, thus restoring the product to the market. by Hank Moore. Maquiladoras.

Crisis 74

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 74

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation?

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

Ciena CEO Gary Smith, the company’s CEO since 2001, describes how his company survived, regrouped, and resumed its growth. How was Ciena doing when you became its CEO? SMITH: I’d joined in 1997, around the time it went public, and became CEO in 2001. By way of context, in 2001 we delivered $1.6

Industry 8

Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8