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. For Stephens, though, love is not an abstraction–it’s the underlying motivation for everything he does as president and COO. ” Raise others up.

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Chief Operating Officer How To COO Motivation 40

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

My motive is nothing more than to share my experience with today’s business community in the hope they might put an old warrior’s advice to good use. 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. Mine was marketing.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Howard Morgan and I published an article titled “Leadership Is a Contact Sport” in the fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business that involved more than 86,000 respondents from eight major corporations. Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to interview hundreds of leaders in the did-nothing category.

360-Degree Feedback 96

360-Degree Feedback Follow-up Ethics Training 96

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. Overlooking this practice results in missed opportunities to foster and encourage motivation, creativity, and innovation. Be proactive.

Leadership 132

Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 132

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We do not work with leaders who are not really motivated to change. If the issue is leadership behavior, the coaching clients are given a fair chance and they are motivated to improve, the process described in this article will almost always work. These are the people who have great careers in front of them. Probably none!

Learning-by-Doing 123

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

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. ” 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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Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Is your spouse willing to make significant career or personal sacrifices that might be required to support you and the business? What are your motivations for wanting to own your business?

Learning-by-Doing 255

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

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn't entrepreneurship, it's corporate serfdom. Workers motivated by financial incentives alone struggle to perform at the level of the true believer.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Banking Comparison 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

She has learned to perform amid chaos through past postings: the former Soviet republic of Georgia during the 2008 Russian invasion, Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and Indonesia at the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The role of self-compassion in resilience extends to career decision making. Compassion.

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Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Although champions are not the ultimate decision makers, and they rarely have substantial power within their organization, they have four things that make them irreplaceable in developing and closing the deal: credibility, connections, company intelligence, and motivation. That’s where the fourth element comes in: motivation.

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Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

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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Stress Learning-by-Doing Creativity Career 15

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 7, 2016

One example of a feminine standard that would counter balance the rigid long hour standard is work flexibility, which would enhance women’s chances of pursuing a career wholeheartedly, as well as invite more men to share equally in care responsibilities, a necessary condition in levelling the playing field for women and men.

Leadership Styles 120

Leadership Styles Leadership Long-term Follow-up 120

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

The media reported that he was motivated "because he badly wants to compete in triathlons and running events again" and his lifetime ban extends to those sports; a confession may win him a reprieve. There's no doubt the interview marks a new phase of Armstrong's career: the deception ended, and ready for a fresh start.

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Armstrong Sports Crisis Follow-up 10

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

MQ – Motivational Quotient Top leaders are super-motivated. They make life sacrifices to climb the organizational career ladder. Again, most who get there have the necessary motivation to lead and persevere. They know how to motivate people one at a time, in groups, or in entire enterprises. They are ambitious.

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Agility Leadership Goleman ROI 120

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

People have built careers and launched start-ups with little more than cold emails. (By I’ve received about 25,000 cold emails since 2004 (yes, I do keep track). Research shows that people are far more motivated to help others when they feel uniquely qualified to do so. As a result, most cold emails fail.

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Audience Entrepreneur Bond Advice 8

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

Research reported in the Fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business shows that the long-term follow-up and involvement of coworkers tends to be highly correlated with positive change in the perceived effectiveness of leaders. Coworkers are no different from anyone else. Maintenance.

Goal 137

Goal Short-term Long-term Crisis 137

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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Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Throughout his career, he has sought creative ways of fitting the different domains of his life together, including learning from his children about what really matters. He has built organizations that encourage personal growth by rewarding results — not “face time” — and by motivating people with a vision of contributing to a greater good.

Succession 13

Succession COO Career Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed. You clearly have a different point of view on distributions to shareholders.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

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. As the decades of his career passed, Warren continued to sail unafraid into topics that were hard to study but harder to ignore. Warren liked to call himself lucky.

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McGregor Leadership Open-book Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

In 2004, Greece surprised the world by winning the European Championship, the toughest tournament in international soccer. Because it allows both individuals and teams to regulate their efforts – the essence of motivation is self-regulation, but self-regulation only works with accurate feedback. Why is feedback so important?

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Team Management How To eBook 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The ability to protect senior civil servants from any politically motivated appointments is done to ensure that the machinery of government doesn’t grind to a halt with each change in administration. It also helps to ensure that HR decisions are based more on merit than political affiliation or ideology.

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Politics Analysis Bureaucracy Influence 90