The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. 7 motivational patterns of high performance leadership.

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. They need to understand the workings of your company and its products.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

A great product alone is not enough to sustain and grow revenues in a global marketplace with seemingly endless options for customers to consider. But eConsultancy’s 2013 Cross-Channel Marketing Report found that 70 percent of business owners feel acquisitions are definitely more expensive than retention. Live Chat Online.

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Quality Succession White Paper Customer Loyalty 182

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Trillion Dollar Coach is about Bill Campbell , someone you likely never heard of, who coached several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley during a 16-year tenure, and who’s behind-the-scene wisdom helped created over a trillion dollars in market value. He ran the Google product team from 2002 to 2011.

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Bond Open-book Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 65

Tim Milburn

MAY 7, 2012

The leadership of the team shifts from time to time, as appropriate, to drive results. He is also the co-author of the business best-seller Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces (Harvard Business School Press, 2002). No individual members are more important than the team.

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Team Construction Audience Follow-up 155

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.

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Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) ‘Father of Modern Management’ and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002 Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar ! Click here to cancel reply.

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Leadership Newsletter Drucker Strategic Planning 50

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 8, 2018

Debbie Laskey developed her brand marketing and communications expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the nonprofit arena, and the insurance industry. All aspects of business have been affected from technology to human resources to marketing.

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Brand Tips Media Customer Loyalty 50

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. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Three additional points to consider (I love tracking these): 1) Leadership challenge with SP: “Many people regard execution as detail work that’s beneath the dignity of a business leader. Ryan Olsen provides account management and product development for MyStrategicPlan.com with a focus on the customer experience.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 104

Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

He consumes art and music at the rate he does books, but unlike most critics he doesn't sniff that markets have either ruined culture or brought it low. In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native." Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 30, 2011.

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Globalization Crisis Creativity Short-term 84

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Related Post : The Leadership Vacuum Share and Enjoy: View Comments John Mike, I believe you are correct in that the key 'qualification' for being effective at helping others is experience and of course that is a word open to considerable interpretation.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Three additional points to consider (I love tracking these): 1) Leadership challenge with SP: “Many people regard execution as detail work that’s beneath the dignity of a business leader. Ryan Olsen provides account management and product development for MyStrategicPlan.com with a focus on the customer experience.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 74

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Not only was this a shift in company focus and customer orientation, but it put high-volume tire production and sales as the only priorities. What Causes Crises. About the Author.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 59

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

How can you tell if the product you are working on is likely to succeed or fail? In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. The result was multiple product launches and more than 10 years of limited or no success in the connected home space. But products often fall short of these high expectations.

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Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

What then were the leadership characteristics that separated the winning leaders from their industry peers? Productive Paranoia. Productive paranoia is the ability to be hyper-vigilant about potentially bad events that can hit your company and then turn that fear into preparation and clearheaded action. Markets down?

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Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 14

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. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. The stock market is down 25%. Public pension funds nationwide lost at least $6.4

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Integrity – ability to inspire/engender trust and loyalty.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Similar to the advance of “standardized process” in the early 20th century, digital is not just the new product to offer our customers (e.g., Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone — a touchscreen computer that would fit in your pocket — Apple had no expertise in the mobile market. Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it.

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Stephenson Kahneman CEO Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

But then, in 1942, Schumpeter reversed himself and argued that big companies had more ability and incentive to invest in new products. The key for every firm — regardless of size — is to figure out how to consistently create value in a demanding, ever-changing market. The logic was "together we are stronger".

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. No nation has a monopoly on great ideas.

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GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They pointed out that we were a very young company, but our market value was $45 billion—more than the entire U.S. We intended to broaden the company out and develop new products over time, but then the dot-com bust came. In 2002, we had an offsite strategy session, and we had some consultants come in. Leadership'

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Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

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. Otherwise growth would just mean more headcount.

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Software Outsourcing Committee Consultative 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). Eventually the company is likely to be out of touch with changing market requirements.

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

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. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5 In the new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten analyzed the 1997-2002 period and discovered something interesting.

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. 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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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies.

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business. Egos and working mannerisms did not produce the most productive workforce. Executives never stayed long.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 2002, unsure of what to do with his life, he takes off to surf in Indonesia and Australia. He quickly realizes it would make a better product to include the camera too. What’s the connection between poetry and great leadership? How come every time I write marketing copy, it sounds boring when I look at it the next day?

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Video Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We'd lost half of our market value in just one year. The company had, and still has, extraordinary assets: iconic products, a huge number of skilled employees, many of whom had built careers at Campbell, and a broader community made up of supportive consumers and customers — lots of them. Perhaps you've heard the story.

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Company Real Estate Retail Commitment 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

in 2002, and should touch 2.0% Other measures suggest that the productivity of China’s innovation system is low. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe. The “input” indeed appears impressive: China’s R&D expenditure increased to 1.6%

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