Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. Recently, his company needed a web designer. We attended activist training together, went for lunch in Chinatown, and kept in loose contact through our organizing efforts.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

Like most bloggers, I write about what I know; that’s strategy, leadership and branding. Your idea can change a company. That idea can also change you; believe me, there is nothing like a business breakthrough to set the right foundation for the rest of your career. Creativity is the key to a small company’s success.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

Don Maruska founded and was CEO of three Silicon Valley companies and venture investor in startups that became public companies. He earned his BA magna cum laude from Harvard and his MBA and JD from Stanford and previously led projects for McKinsey & Company. You just finished reading 4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions !

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Our greatest challenge as leaders isn’t understanding the practice of leadership; it’s practicing our understanding of leadership. The consistent and ongoing misassumption of almost all leadership development programs is, “If they understand, they will do.” by Marshall Goldsmith.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

.” Stephens joined Marco’s Pizza in 2004 when it was a successful but regional chain operating 110 stores in three states. When Stephens plotted people’s attitudes and moods against the numbers, he saw that the company’s stellar financial growth was creating emotional misery in the team. ” Raise others up.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Therefore, we think that companies can and should take the lead in training workers to fill the middle-skills gap. We have identified three models that companies can employ. The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 7, 2016

Guest post from Muna Jawhary: One of the main reasons why women don’t thrive in business as much as men is because work organisations still rely on masculine standards, including in leadership. The leadership style that goes with this rigid way of organising work is command and control.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Shortly after we opened, I remember contracting with an out-of-state direct-mail company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

It was an incredible leadership school for me. Reed has also said that sitting on the board of another company is “ better than an M.B.A. ” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Khazanah recognized that Malaysia needed future national leaders with a wide variety of experiences that were far more varied than any of the individual companies in their portfolio could offer alone. Khazanah convinced their portfolio companies to trade their leaders. The main driver for me was to be CFO of a quoted company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

"It''s never foolish to begin preparing for a transition no matter how many years away it is or where you are in your career," says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. Seize leadership opportunities, no matter how small. Look for the white space.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

Year Up is empowering urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support to move them from poverty to professional careers in one year. Invest in leadership. Nonprofits have an inherent asset in recruiting against their for-profit competitors: purpose. This isn't just added compensation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

"A general who fears to unsheathe his sword is not a good general," says Mr. Li Jiaxiang , Chairman of Air China from 2004 to 2008 and the #1 performing corporate leader in China according to our new ranking (just published in the Harvard Business Review China and the centerpiece for the magazine's launch events in Beijing and Shanghai).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

soccer team that garnered Olympic gold in 1996, silver in 2000, and gold again in 2004. Based on the gender bias she experienced firsthand as a player, she has devoted her career to leading an array of organizations that promote athletics for young people, empower young women, and advocate for social causes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

For example, building open source software, like we do at Red Hat, involves collaborating with people outside of the company who volunteer their efforts. Conventional performance reviews can also undermine a company’s agility and lead to missed opportunities. This often creates an army of ineffective and unengaged managers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

She formed a group of about two dozen men and women in senior management at law firms, public and financial service entities, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies like Booz Allen Hamilton, Eli Lilly, Marriott, IBM, and Ford who wanted to challenge the notion that work-life balance is impossible for leaders. with her kids.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Give you a sounding board to flesh out your ideas. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

We believe that the lessons executive coaches have learned in helping their clients set goals apply to leadership development in a wide variety of settings. One of the most common mistakes in all leadership development is the roll-out of programs and initiatives that promise, “This will make you better.” Difficulty.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The senior leader advises the junior employee on his career, how to navigate the world of work, and what he needs to do to get ahead. Just as the notion of a 50-year linear career with a single company or in one industry is outdated, so is the idea that career advice must come from a wise old sage. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

You’re thinking about making a career change (or perhaps getting your first real job out of grad school), and you’re looking at different types of organizations. There was a time when taking a job at a startup was viewed as risky, even foolish, because you didn’t know how long the company was going to be around.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Former Google engineer James Damore was hardly the first person to argue that biological differences between men and women determine career outcomes. Women are also significantly underrepresented in top leadership positions. Other data also contradicts the idea that women are biologically predisposed to lower levels of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Cook, In a recent article posted on this website, I criticized Carl Icahn’s call for your company to intensify its stock buybacks. In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

This is driven by the fact that what people want from a job and a company has changed. The largest generation of people in the workforce today (millennials) has come to value different things; you can’t convey how thoughtful a team is, how inspiring a workplace is, or what a company actually stands for in a job listing alone.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. In addition to leadership development programs being used to help leaders “go digital,” these programs need to reflect the new realities of the digital and democratized workplace. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

In 2004, Greece surprised the world by winning the European Championship, the toughest tournament in international soccer. In the famous words of Vince Lombardi: “ Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The screw-up might be personal (Arnold Schwarzenegger's extramarital escapades), corporate (TEPCO president Masataka Shimizu's mishandling of his company's nuclear power plant crisis), or simply banal (inadvertently insulting a colleague's wardrobe). Eventually, every leader will make a mistake for which he or she must apologize.

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