Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

.” - Anonymous Recent studies confirm that emotional hurt and rejection, whether part of social interactions or the perception of inequitable and unjust workplace conditions can actually trigger the same neurophysiologic pathways associated with physical pain and suffering (Eisenberger, Lieberman, & Williams, 2003). Lieberman, M.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 17, 2011

I remember vividly a management lecture at university back in 2003. The lecturer asked the group who we felt were the most important stakeholders in any company. I was overcome with dotcom fever back in those days so confidently puffed out my chest and offered up ‘customers’ as my answer. Can’t be wrong I thought.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2013

Last week I wrote about a 2003 study conducting by the Learning and Development Roundtable that found that managers who are very effective at employee development can outperform their peers by up to 25%. Here’s an abbreviated version: A CEO was getting very frustrated with one of his senior managers. But maybe not.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 18, 2015

I vividly remember when I finally made this jump, back in 2003 – it was not long after I’d been turned down for a big promotion to the executive suite. I’d been wanting this promotion for several years, and worked hard to position myself for it. I wanted to really prove myself. It was my time. It was what I wanted.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Work-Life Balance Meaning According to Nancy Lockwood ’s 2003 Research Quarterly for SHRM , a work-life balance can be defined as “A state of equilibrium in which the demands of both a person’s job and personal life are equal.” The use of the term can be traced back as far as 1986, but its frequency has multiplied in recent years.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 27, 2012

Back in October 2003, BusinessWeek reported that 134 companies from 20 nations spent $210 million to enroll 21,000 employees in executive leadership programs. Since leadership development is not an event, that's a significant investment in classroom activities that may or may not produce company leaders or even better managers.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 13, 2011

The Toyota Way Jeffrey Liker McGraw-Hill (2003) To understand Toyota’s success, first understand its DNA I read this book when it was first published in 2004 and recently re-read it, curious to know how well Jeffrey Liker’s explanation of Toyota’s management principles and lean production values have held up.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2011

BETTER BOTTOM LINE : - Companies with more women in leadership have a 35% higher return on equity. Companies with more than three women on their corporate board have an 80% higher return on equity. Companies often will implement separate, often competing or conflicting strategies and goals. Focus on representation; 2.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 6, 2014

Of the 8 core principles of More Human leadership , it’s #6 - Measuring, monitoring and managing with the right metrics - that presents the biggest “nuts and bolts” challenge to any leader. I’m the SVP of Operations of a Cable TV Company that operates in 4 states and has 22 operating divisions.

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Metrics Leadership Operations Report 214

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. During that period, the manufacturers he represented continually awarded him and his company honors for sales, service, customer retention, and financial excellence.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 16, 2011

Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic,&# I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton M.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 18, 2011

Raynor Harvard Business Press (2003) Note: I read and then reviewed this “business classic” when it was first published and recently re-read it. The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. I am even more impressed now than I was then.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 29, 2013

ToneCheck , a software program that works with Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010, helps to ensure your tone is clearly communicated and understood. ToneCheck reports that many companies also battle productivity loss triggered by misread employee email. Or, do you have employees whole struggle with the tone of their emails?

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in October 2003, BusinessWeek reported that 134 companies from 20 nations spent $210 million to enroll 21,000 employees in executive leadership programs. Since leadership development is not an event, that's a significant investment in classroom activities that may or may not produce company leaders or even better managers.

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Ulrich Leadership Self-aware Human Resources 103

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 16, 2014

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. During that period, the manufacturers he represented continually awarded him and his company honors for sales, service, customer retention, and financial excellence.

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Automotive Open-book Retail Long-term 56

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 6, 2010

In 2003, Jeffrey Dyer and Wujin Chu studied buyer-supplier relationships among eight major automakers in Japan, Korea and the U.S. The research also found the companies in the study that trusted each other were more likely to share valuable knowledge such as new product designs. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2016

As a leader, my role in my company and in my community is to speak intelligently about the causes, values, and ideologies in which I believe. If you stand behind the microphone before your company at the annual shareholders meeting and pontificate about principles, but don’t actually live by those principles, then you are a performer.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2013

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. During that period, the manufacturers he represented continually awarded him and his company honors for sales, service, customer retention, and financial excellence.

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Books Automotive Review Open-book 66

Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

To quickly set the scene, I was the SVP of Operations for a 1,100 employee cable television company based in 4 states in the Rocky Mountain west. We had acquired the properties in 2003 from a large company that had largely ignored and neglected them for a number of years. A Breakthrough Lands In My Mailbox. Commitment.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management. This is not fair to my client, to the company or to me. My clients and their managers (unless my client is the CEO) agree upon the desired behavior for change.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. These are the same managers loudly pronouncing goals of higher employee engagement and increased customer loyalty. These managers use lots of “leader-speak” about vision, values, engagement, or caring but their rhetoric is heartless and empty. ” Ya gotta love it!

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

In the summer of 2003, the ninety-two year-old Wooden traveled to the White House, where he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. He required even the best players to clean up after themselves in the locker room and not to expect the student managers to do it. why is everyone smiling?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Pulling off a core shift takes many years, if not a decade, as PPG and other companies have shown. Allow time and persevere. A core shift takes time for several reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

It is March 20, 2003, a few miles off the coast of Iraq's Al Faw Peninsula. Just as the helicopter door is about to slide shut, their company commander appears. To understand human behavior around risk, and to learn how to manage it better, it's important to recognize that one man's fear is another man's opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. Every individual on every team in a company can strive, together, to deliver beyond what is deemed possible. This also means valuing integrity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business. Changing Your Company from the Inside Out.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Dave Crisp is just such an expert with deep experience including 14 years leading HR at Hudson Bay Company where he took the 70,000 employee retailer to “best company to work for” status.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

It is March 20, 2003, a few miles off the coast of Iraq's Al Faw Peninsula. Just as the helicopter door is about to slide shut, their company commander appears. To understand human behavior around risk, and to learn how to manage it better, it's important to recognize that one man's fear is another man's opportunity.

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Arkes Management Offshoring Uncertainty 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Maybe it was Nick Carr’s famous May 2003 HBR article “ IT Doesn’t Matter ” that did it. That seems reasonable enough. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

For a long time researchers have attributed the transformation to federal labor market and welfare reforms enacted, starting in 2003. When Germany’s government under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder implemented the so-called Hartz reforms, in 2003, they were extremely controversial. Controversial Labor Reforms.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2011

It’s important to note that The Exchange was designed by mediators for managers. Managers learn a structure and skills similar to those mediators know and use, but it also takes into account managers’ responsibilities, both to their companies and their employees. In 2003, he moved to San Diego to lead NCRC.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Deborah joined MyCorporation in 2003 after serving as outside general counsel for 5 years. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Administrative expenses are what most merging companies emphasize. The pitch goes something like this: “Synergies will reduce overhead by eliminating duplicative management positions and spreading IT and marketing costs across more members.” This is an intriguing idea but, so far, only a theoretical one.

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