The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

EQ [or EI], on the other hand, has been found to be directly responsible for between 27 and 45 percent of job success …” 2 And that percentage is even higher for those in leadership positions! It must be noted that Generation Z is wide-eyed and watchful, soaking in and being formed by these leadership lessons. McKinsey & Company.

Emotional Intelligence 98

Emotional Intelligence Training Goleman McKinsey 98

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 16, 2017

To find the best business, communications and leadership books to add to my "to read" list for 2017, I reached out to some of the best experts in the field. As a storytelling trainer and consultant, I’m constantly asked by companies to help their managers 'tell a better story.' Individuals I admire and respect.

Books 50

Books Storytelling Leadership Consultative 50

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. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

Greenleaf 100

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Mike Cardus

APRIL 14, 2011

These misconceptions have arisen from the observation of how people behave, understandably, within badly flawed managerial leadership systems.”. Unfortunately when this question is asked to executives and managers they are operating off false theories of folklore that are leading them to treat employees as less than capable.

System 157

System Commitment Motivation Incentives 157

HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

MARC is focused on empowering male executives and leaders to model inclusive behavior, influence more equitable talent management systems and processes, and build effective partnerships across gender. Since 2002, Chevron reports a 68 percent increase in the number of women and minorities in senior leadership and executive positions.

Diversity 107

Diversity Succession Disaggregation Self-aware 107

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. Focus on authentic leadership and eschew passive aggressiveness. This involves two elements.

Incentives 258

Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

As a manager determining and being purposeful about delegating task that subordinates find relevant that are in-line with their values will achieve great work. Hjørland & Sejer Christensen,2002) Wikipedia. In work it is the manager ; who has control of the system. Your work and life are consistently driven by goals.

Productivity 95

Productivity Products Christensen Delegation 95

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 19, 2016

To find the best business, communications and leadership books to add to my "to read" list for 2017, I reached out to some of the best experts in the field. As a storytelling trainer and consultant, I’m constantly asked by companies to help their managers 'tell a better story.' Individuals I admire and respect.

Books 50

Books Storytelling Consultative Brand 50

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Tim ended the post with his theory: “Strategic planning is simply an invention to justify the existence of middle management, and not a useful tool for those doing the actual leading or for the guys at the bottom doing the real work.”. His project and product management skill set provide the process oriented mindset to drive this objective.

Strategic Planning 104

Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 104

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Tim ended the post with his theory: “Strategic planning is simply an invention to justify the existence of middle management, and not a useful tool for those doing the actual leading or for the guys at the bottom doing the real work.”. His project and product management skill set provide the process oriented mindset to drive this objective.

Strategic Planning 74

Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 74

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We then get paid only after our coaching clients have achieved positive change in key leadership behaviors – and become more effective leaders – as determined by their key stakeholders. I believe that many leadership coaches are paid for the wrong reasons. Therefore, we only focus on changing leadership behavior.

Learning-by-Doing 123

Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. These are just a few examples.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Roundtable Talk

MAY 18, 2011

After an affair with an IMF staffer back in 2008, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted as saying: “The personal behaviour of the managing director sets an important tone for the institution. I am committed, going forward, to uphold the high standards that are expected of this position.&#. Oh bullsh*t. How about you?

Crisis Management 34

Crisis Management Reputation Hotels Committee 34

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

” Apple went on to secure massive commitments from AT&T’s suppliers, who spent hundreds of millions to build factories for iPhone-specific parts. Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. You were betting on Steve Jobs.”

Stephenson 10

Stephenson Kahneman CEO Commitment 10

Women's Leadership Exchange

SEPTEMBER 15, 2006

She was our closing keynote at our very firstconference in New York City - November 2002. She founded the North Dallas Democratic Women to give more power to women in the Democratic Party in the sixties, and managed her first campaign in 1972 to elect Sarah Weddington to the Texas Legislature. She made you laugh and made you cry.

Blog 70

Blog ROE Leadership Press Release 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

You’ve taken the leap from front-line individual contributor to professional manager. According to a new study, middle managers are the most likely people in an organization to suffer from depression. The researchers then segmented those individuals into four categories: owners, managers, supervisors, and workers.

Middle Management 8

Middle Management Management Span of Control Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

What then were the leadership characteristics that separated the winning leaders from their industry peers? We found that the differentiating leadership principle was a certain approach to creativity, what we call empirical creativity — the ability to empirically validate your creative instincts. Yes, but here's the rub.

Skills 15

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Gardner, who died in 2002 at the age of 89, was a legendary public intellectual and civic reformer — a celebrated Stanford professor, an architect of the Great Society under Lyndon Johnson, founder of Common Cause and Independent Sector. Leadership Managing yourself Personal effectiveness' ” What was his message?

Collins 15

Collins McKinsey Advice Learning-by-Doing 15

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. This book states the case for more of a macro-focused approach to management. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002.

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.". Others who plan to sell soon want firms to opportunistically renege on such commitments.

Short-term 14

Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Change management Mergers & Acquisitions'

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ It charged too much money and got away with it (because mid-managers but brand names of firms).

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military. When I arrived at the PHC in 2002, it was in financial distress. In reality, there are far more similarities than differences between military and non-profit leadership. They wanted to know what someone coming from the U.S.

Health Care 13

Health Care Delegation PR Operations 13

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. It started 30 years ago with the progressive and unusual step (for that time) of shifting from local nationals as country managers to global leaders from other countries.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

There were a lot of things we changed, from the leadership team to package design — you've read about those. One of the primary things that makes Campbell a place where people want to come to work is the company's earnest and ongoing commitment to our communities around the globe. It has advanced our corporate agenda.

Company 14

Company Real Estate Retail Commitment 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. We’ve found that, in general, companies that move between exploratory and exploitative R&D exhibit superior performance, in comparison with companies that budget R&D expenditure as a fixed percentage of sales, committing neither to exploratory nor exploitative R&D.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

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.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. David Kopans. Andy Molinsky.

Stress 14

Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

While our own physicians are still largely reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis from non-Geisinger insurance payers, since 2002, we’ve been using the following 80/20 compensation model: 80% of total cash compensation is based on the usual piecework metrics: panel size, number of patients seen, number of work units performed, and so on.

Insurance 8

Insurance Cost Incentives Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. And managers focused on immediate total shareholder returns may be delighted with high performance. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. points p.a.,

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Black has no management experience in education — her entire career has been spent in magazine publishing — and her contact with the public school system in New York has been very limited. The contretemps over this appointment brings to mind three classic management issues, and research about them that is too often ignored.

Tacit Knowledge 11

Tacit Knowledge Festinger Social Capital Education 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

When you borrow talent, you obtain what you need more cost effectively than hiring it and without making a long-term commitment; and when you lend talent you’re offering your stars and high-potentials new opportunities for growth and development that they might not otherwise get within the confines of your organization.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When Sir Dave Brailsford became head of British Cycling in 2002, the team had almost no record of success: British cycling had only won a single gold medal in its 76-year history. That quickly changed under Sir Dave’s leadership. I think the British government is already very much clued in to novel management approaches.

Kaizen 8

Kaizen Critical Success Factor Competitive Advantage Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

As that dramatic disintegration played out in early 2002, I had to present our office’s results and perspectives at the firm’s annual partners’ meeting in Switzerland. Compassionate coaches are not just positive cheerleaders but also committed guides, conscious of the state and progress of their team and the individuals in it.

Emotional Intelligence 9

Emotional Intelligence GDP McKinsey Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Asked about retirement in 2002, he replied , "I had a great-grandmother who worked until she was 108 and then died in an accident.". And we just can't know if the management approach that served the company well for decades would have been as effective in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime crisis. Le entreprise, c'est moi.

Insurance 8

Insurance Long-term Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else. Crisis management'

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. Perhaps most critically, the key fault with so many of these business and leadership articles on generational differences is that there’s no evidence-based, empirical studies to back up their assertions. Badger J.M., Severt J.B & Gade P.A.

P&L 243

P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 243