Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Our “Pay for Results” Executive Coaching Process Our coaching network (Marshall Goldsmith Group) provides coaches for leaders from around the world. 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.

Learning-by-Doing 123

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

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

So why would a busy executive agree to sit on a board? Why is there is a cottage industry of executive search firms focusing on “reverse board searches,” where they proactively work to place executives on outside corporate boards? What do executives gain from serving on boards? increased by over $300,000.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

As one Fortune 100 executive commented, “We learned that debate is our skill, but it not our friend.” Great decisions need participants who openly share the negatives and positives of each option. When participants do this in a non-adversarial way, their thinking improves. Often, they invent even better solutions than the original options.

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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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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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Leadership Styles Leadership Long-term Follow-up 120

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. Do you have the personality type that can create a plan, execute that plan, and get things done?

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

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. You have to execute on your boss''s priorities too," says Watkins.

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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. To get the right leaders in the right seats, Year Up has often used executive recruiting firms to find the best talent, even though this takes a lot of time and money.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Eichenger and Michael Lombardo According to Day and Lord (1986), differences in the quality of executive leadership explain as much as 45 percent of an organization’s performance. Hunter and Schmidt (1990) suggest that it might be 48% for those executives who rank one standard deviation above average. They are ambitious.

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Agility Leadership Goleman ROI 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

But we have come to embrace the concept of a “career of achievement” in addition to a “career of advancement.” They are expert individual contributors who help shape the direction and priorities of Red Hat and key open source communities through their contributions and thought leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. They both wanted important, but not overwhelming careers.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

When I ask my executive students this question, most of them answer in the fours and fives. 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. On average, my executive students answer this question in the twos and threes.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

In today’s competitive world, top executives increasingly understand that sustaining peak performance requires a commitment to developing leaders throughout the organization. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When people think of mentoring, they often think of an older executive counseling a young upstart. 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. While the concept of mentoring has changed, the need for career counseling has not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

My research has shown that there are ways for everyone — from the managers of sales teams, to executives in government agencies, to computer engineers, to florists, to coaches — to achieve professional success without always having to sacrifice the things that matter in their personal lives. Career planning Work life balance'

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Succession COO Career Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed.

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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. But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

It was called a “Revisionist Theory of Leadership,” and that is what it delivered. Before 1961, the very topic of leadership wasn’t standard HBR fare. On the fact that some executives had the ability to inspire, motivate, and discern the challenges of the future better than others, management theory was largely silent.

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McGregor Leadership Open-book Storytelling 8

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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