Eric Jacobson

JUNE 21, 2023

Her expertise includes brand marketing, social media, employee engagement, leadership development, and customer experience marketing. Since 2002, Debbie has served as a judge for the Web Marketing Association’s annual web award competition. Be sure to visit both her website and her blog. Search “Debbie Laskey” for previous appearances.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Background: This post is part of a series defining the principles of Servant Leadership via the acronym SERVANT ( Selfless , Empathetic , Resolute , Virtuous , Authentic , Needful and Thorough). For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101. Max Depree.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Here are five of the most common leadership style and guidelines on when to use them. They advise and follow up to be sure people meet their goals on time. Tomorrow, set up a coaching session. Stephen Meyer is CEO and Director of Learning and Development at the Rapid Learning Institute. Practice makes perfect.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Is Servant-Leadership Religious?

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The following is a guest piece by Sally Blount, Dean of the Kellogg School of Management, and Sophie Leroy, assistant professor at University of Washington’s Bothell’s School. CEO tenure in the Fortune 500 has fallen from an average of 11 years in 2002 to six years today.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Is Servant-Leadership Religious?

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

By 1998, they had incorporated Google, coming up with a company name that suggested the audacity of their ambition. Googol" is the math term for the figure 1 followed by a hundred zeros.) In 2001, Page and Brin hired their first CEO, Eric Schmidt, who had a Ph.D. They settled on an unusual power-sharing arrangement.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

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. The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

When the steps in the coaching process described below are followed, leaders almost always positive behavioral change – not as judged by themselves, but as judged by pre-selected, key stakeholders. I believe that many leadership coaches are paid for the wrong reasons. I have personally worked with several of the world’s leading CEOs.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The text that follows is not going to sit well with a number of those in my profession, but hey, that’s never stopped me before. Coaching is about delivering what the client needs - it is not about a cute set of questions you picked-up during a certification class. It’s not about the process, it’s about results.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Let me be very clear here - as the CEO or entrepreneur, YOU and not your legal counsel, marketing director, ad agency or PR firm must make this choice.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Armed with bite-size coaching tools, even the busiest managers can find time to teach one narrowly defined skill and follow through to make it stick. And it’s easy for managers to follow up and make sure the learning is actually being deployed. Single-concept learning makes training seem doable. About the Author.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Saturday, December 11, 2010 "Following" and "The Cavemans Valentine" - Two Cool Movies You Probably Never Heard Of This isnt a movie review site. The first, Following (1998), is like my favorite movie because of its unusual, gritty story and its out-of-time-sequence structure. But the fact is, I love movies. since 1987.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The board of directors is supposed to keep watch over the CEO, right? So if the CEO also serves as the chairman of the board, you''re setting yourself up for trouble, or so the conventional wisdom goes. The CEO has the run of the place. Note the following caveats to the above statement: First, we didn''t study banks.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

As people see the events as having a direct effect on the economy and their livelihood, they take notice and follow the stories more thoroughly. The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. We decry CEOs for the same reasons that we formerly sainted and canonized them. The scandals are not all aired in public yet.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences. As a consequence, five of its CEOs have been non-American-born, including today's CEO, Turkish-born Muhtar Kent. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies.

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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. There is a long build-up period, followed by a rapid increase.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Both CEOs are notable in what they have done, and are doing to lead their companies and both companies rank highly on the Fortune 500 List. At HP, CEO Meg Whitman has had the unfortunate situation of following a string of CEOs who've had short runs at the company and appear to have moved the company in the wrong direction.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Thus, when Lay (CEO of Enron) was chairing a charity drive, Lay asked for 100% participation from the client’s firm, and the client reciprocated by edicting donations from his 200+ employees. This client was a prime example of a leading CEO who served his community, profession and firm well. Executives never stayed long.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Sam Palmisano retired as CEO of IBM on Dec. When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). In effect, service was productized, which showed up in the higher margins earned.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. It gives the CEO a breather until the company has to return to exploration to restock its supply of radical ideas. Take Cisco, for example.

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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. Here are four things you're up against, followed by four tips that every newly-anointed leader should heed. There's no time for either. You must get right to work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

From our analysis of a number of core shifts and conversations with the CEOs who have undertaken them, we have drawn five keys to success: 1. Clear, open, and up-front communication about the company’s intention and the rationale thereof is essential to keep them motivated and prevent value destruction. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. To a large extent, say-on-pay — which was introduced in the UK in 2002 and has spread to several other countries, most recently Switzerland — is a simple exercise in bandwagon-following. The idea was to get away from paying CEOs "like bureaucrats," as Michael C.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Anyone would be inspired by the story of Nick Woodman, the CEO of GoPro, a $2.5B In 2002, unsure of what to do with his life, he takes off to surf in Indonesia and Australia. In the years that follow, he develops increasingly cool yet affordable cameras with pro-like, wide-angle HD video. The first camera comes out in 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

At Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System, where I was CEO for 15 years, changing our model for physician reimbursement was one way we aimed to combat such practices and achieve value-based care. Patient-care metrics were followed in real time, and quality- and cost-of-care outcomes were monitored annually.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

points higher sales growth (including M&A) and also deliver higher long term total shareholder returns of up to 2.4%-points Unfortunately, these firms are rare—most follow a path towards lower exploration and risk falling into the success trap. The difference is substantial: “Explorers” grow faster, with 5.7%-points

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

°C, and most recipes are specified with up to 40 steps for a single component on a plate. Three years later, El Bulli rose to three Michelin Stars, and when the first edition of the 50 Best guide was released in 2002, they earned the top spot, positioning Spain as one of the main gastronomic destinations in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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