Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. Given the number of baby boomers expected to retire between now and 2030 (the last group of baby boomers reach of the age of 65 in 2030, and, of course, some may choose to work past age 65) organizations need to prepare others to take over leadership roles.

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 5, 2011

In January 2010, the iPad demonstrated the broad appeal of a new kind of color LCD tablet with better image quality, wider viewing angles, and, near to Amazon’s heart, Apple’s own selection of e-books. Amazon was late to understand the speed of that transition; Apple, which launched the iPod in 2001 and iTunes two years later, wasn’t.

Leadership 84

Leadership Price Content Media 84

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Every company wants “integrity,” “respect for people,” “quality,” “customer satisfaction,” “innovation,” and “return for shareholders.” Before the energy conglomerate’s collapse in 2001, I had the opportunity to review Enron’s values.

Ethics 137

Ethics Pharmaceuticals PR Execution 137

Coaching Tip

JUNE 2, 2011

Since the mid-1970s, GM, Ford and Chrysler started to be led by financially-oriented management rather than "car guys" who worked to "harvest" corporate assets and squeeze out maximum profits as product quality declined. In the mid-1970s, the GM bean counters combined the styling and design departments to reduce costs.

Automotive 95

Automotive Supply Chain Industry Engineering 95

Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2014

It revolves around self-assessment, an agreed-upon game plan of action, measurable results, and an overall spirit that includes individual work, teamwork, and remarkable leadership. Many companies try to maximize profit by cutting costs, or worse, cutting quality, or way worse, cutting service offerings. The concept is not complicated.

Collins 54

Collins Customer Loyalty Reputation Competitive Advantage 54

Women on Business

AUGUST 12, 2011

As women progressively enter leadership roles and management positions in organizations that traditionally used to be held by men, many pose questions about leadership styles and gender. This statistic draws a question: what is the difference between a man and woman’s leadership style? When the Boss is a Woman, 2008).

Power 263

Power Leadership Styles Leadership Mentor 263

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Here are some of GE’s principles for achieving those essential aims: A leadership institute should reflect the company’s leadership ideals. It is an expression of a company’s ideal for leadership excellence. Deep leadership involvement is essential. Establishing a corporate university is a big deal.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Human Resources Benchmarking Participative 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2009

In 2001, Jeffery W. The irony is that Mr Greenberg does not enjoy a reputation associated with good leadership but perhaps at this particular time, he may have got it right. This post was selected as one of the five best independent business blog posts of the week in my Three Star Leadership Midweek Review of the Business Blogs.

Performance Review 43

Performance Review Blog Learning-by-Doing Contingency Plans 43

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

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. It is not for their beauty, their power, or their influence, but simply for the quality of their human relationships and their ability to look after those around them.”

Stress 150

Stress Mentor Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

It sells burgers, hot dogs, chicken sandwiches, fries, shakes—standard fast-food fare, although the taste and quality have a well-deserved reputation for excellence. It has 26 locations in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, all within an 80-mile radius of its home base in Kingsport, Tennessee. You and Your Team.

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Customer Loyalty Training Quality 8

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. Its tool and engineering cycle time dropped 50% from 2004 to 2009, costs went down and it produces higher-quality products. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Eichenger and Michael Lombardo According to Day and Lord (1986), differences in the quality of executive leadership explain as much as 45 percent of an organization’s performance. People like Goleman , Boyatzis , and Spencer (2001) all report that this skill set is often missing. They read people accurately.

Agility 120

Agility Leadership Goleman ROI 120

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There is no doubt that Kamprad’s personal tenacity, business savvy, and leadership skills account for IKEA’s success. Sometimes, strategic leadership is about coming up with a great plan and then executing it seamlessly. But how did it hit on this winning strategy?

Succession 8

Succession Humphrey Business Model Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? In contrast to “transformational” and “authentic” leadership, which has been criticized for being fuzzy and wishy-washy , “fitness leadership,” as we refer to it, offers a more concrete approach.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

What the naysayers are overlooking or ignoring is that one could have made a list for Steve Jobs that would look remarkably similar: Missed earnings: Apple posted a $247 million quarterly loss ( in 2001 , four years after Jobs took over — and the stock went UP in after-hours trading). Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

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. and “Why?”.

Hedge 8

Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Zakaria is a hugely accomplished thinker and writer (go back and read his breathtakingly good October 2001 Newsweek cover story " Why Do They Hate Us? " Drezner in a journal article in 2008 "has stimulated rather than retarded the quality and diversity of public intellectuals.".

Insurance 13

Insurance Health Care Ryan Storytelling 13

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. For example, in the mobile phone industry, Motorola's margins started to sag around 1994, Nokia's in 2001, and Research in Motion's in 2009.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

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.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

” Toby did everything his father asked, joining The Bozzuto Group in 2001 as a development associate. ” Early on, they also attended a weeklong seminar at Harvard University that focused on leadership transitions. manufacturer of high-quality hooded sweatshirts sold directly to consumers. ”

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

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.” And in 2001, profits jumped to $2.2 See here for more about the turnaround and Paul’s leadership style and philosophy.). In fact, BHP posted a $1.6 billion profit – the largest in company history.

CEO 8

CEO Advice Workshop Execution 8

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. This is regarded as a premiere textbook case of quality crisis management. Quality of life issues were addressed.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Not just your average quality Joe. The ruler in the spot was used to remove all of the coffee beans (which sat stacked up in rolling mounds on a boardroom table, representing all the harvested beans in the world) that did not fit Nabob’s quality standards. It wasn’t long before the competition matched Nabob’s vacuum pack, says Bell.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

But, human nature being what it is, people are more easily duped than they are taught to appreciate the attributes of quality and substance. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. I have been chagrined as to why people could not or would not see through the facade.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

It doesn’t necessarily include the qualities (like optimism, initiative, and self-confidence) that some popular definitions ascribe to it. 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.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Goleman Skills Leadership 8