The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Leaders who didn’t have that figured out before 2020 have certainly had a crash course—or crashed and burned. Previous blogs in this series have cited research proving the most successful leaders have strong EI profiles. Zig Ziglar is known for saying, “You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.”

Emotional Intelligence 98

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware P&L Leadership 98

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Understanding that each team member has a role in the company and their personalities need to match these roles can mean the difference between failure and success. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. The finance department is your business foundation so you need it to be one that you can trust.

CFO 100

CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

He's right about that, of course. People who study successful corporations — I'm thinking of Jim Collins , Rosabeth Moss Kanter , Michael Beer , and many others — keep reporting that one important trait that most of them share is that they don't emphasize the maximization of shareholder value. They're a metric, not a goal.

Short-term 13

Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Occasionally they get much more involved, as with Eddie Lampert''s seemingly permanent ( and not exactly successful ) takeover of Sears and Kmart. It is of course a bit disturbing to see that five years is now considered the "long term." The very rarity of such interventions helps make them successful.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

As long as the Model T's design remained ahead of the competition, as long as it competed on price, and as long as the market's needs remained static, this was a successful and disruptive innovation strategy, since Ford had no compelling reason to innovate in any other sphere other than cost- and price-reduction.

Innovation 15

Innovation Mass Marketing Price Market Segmentation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In 2006, the last time a President had to nominate a Fed chairman, the job went to Ben Bernanke, who had spent his entire career as an economics professor before being called up to Washington for a stint as a Fed board member in 2002. Then McCabe went back to Scott Paper and Martin took over as chairman of a re-empowered Federal Reserve.

Banking 9

Banking Rogers Career Education 9