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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]. Thanks for reminding us all.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 2, 2011

Engine Charlie's statement has never been more true as we witness the decline of the American automotive industry over the fifty years since his death. . Like Engine Charlie, most auto industry executives had summer homes in northern lower Michigan.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Yet this narrative around Asians’ success obscures the fact that they are underrepresented in leadership positions, a phenomenon referred to as the “bamboo ceiling.” Why aren’t Asian Americans advancing into leadership positions? Stereotypes About Asian Americans.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2011

Jobs assembled a team of brilliant engineers, gave them the needed resources, and infused the Macintosh team with a vision of what was possible. When Jobs returned and restructured his senior management team with more discovery-driven capacity, Apple's innovation engine ignited again. That's what an innovative leader does.

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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. Ford reengineered its global product development process so that an engineering plan designed in Detroit can drive the shop floor in a European factory.

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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. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile, and cloud. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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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. Apple's innovative future hinges on these critical senior-leadership skills. This is not the first time, of course, that Jobs has left the helm at Apple. Can Cook do this?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

If you want those new creative concepts to come forward, you must foster a corporate culture that incorporates five leadership principles of innovation: 1. While I was there, a team of engineers had implemented some of the standard microprocessor architectures on the programmable logic fabric, but the performance was not very good.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference. ” His Box 2 speech had an impact within Elfun and its turnaround became a symbol of transformation for GE as a whole: “…Today [2001] Elfin has more than 42,000 members, including retirees. .”

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

KW: I lost my job in the 2001 dot.com bust and decided to start my own consulting company. There is no reason women should not be participating especially when you note the research that companies make more profit and contribute more toward philanthropy when women are in leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems. At least not yet.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In the fall of 2001, shortly after 9/11, I was invited to deliver a presentation on an integration of ideas from W. Even if I had one, in all likelihood it would be a video of a simulated assembly operation of a rocket engine. Can we continue to abdicate leadership and rely on a customer to define what adds value?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Paula encouraged me to talk with Paul because he “is the real thing when it comes to global business leadership.” Paul also made some tough and controversial decisions, such as closing a titanium plant that was losing 10 million dollars a month, and exiting peripheral IT and engineering businesses. And in 2001, profits jumped to $2.2

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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. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness. It must be included as part of a formal Strategic Planning and Visioning process.

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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. 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 Leadership' How was Ciena doing when you became its CEO?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Leadership is changing — fast. But, with legions of great engineers streaming out of closing or soon-to-close U.S. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant. Anecdotal evidence supports this view.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

On September 11, 2001, following the aerial attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the Federal Aviation Authority had to land over 5,000 planes in the US as quickly as possible before more could be hijacked — a task that had never been attempted on that scale. Collaboration Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

For my money, “What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions” (2001), which Garvin wrote with Michael Roberto, is the best piece on organizational decision making in HBR’s archive. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better). Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As it is written, the legislation would essentially force companies to engineer defects into the their security systems. Strong encryption sustains these thriving industries and defends technological leadership on the global stage. That was in 2001. We’d be asking U.S. trillion this year. billion in 2014 to $4.82

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

The switches could, if bumped or weighed down by a heavy key ring, cut off engine power and disable air bags. According to another , “GM has said the issue was discovered as early as 2001, and in 2004, a company engineer ran into the problem during the testing phase of the soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Cobalt.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

But we all know what happened in 2001. As Peter Drucker put it, “culture eats strategy over breakfast” Just take a look at Southwest Airlines, the company which saw the greatest value expansion in the S&P 500 between 1971 and 2001. They can reverse-engineer your processes. Building a Feedback-Rich Culture.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

And in pharma or tech, CEOs should have also had a relevant formal education such as in medicine or science for pharma, and in math, engineering, or computer science for tech. For example, Terry Semel, who succeeded Tim Koogle as CEO of Yahoo in 2001, had a media marketing background at Warner Brothers.

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