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. Now, he’s the president and chief operating officer for Marco’s (and was featured earlier this year on CBS’ Undercover Boss ). Clearly, his leadership by example had paid off.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Kent was one of the most intentional leaders I’ve ever met, and I am grateful I had a chance to make his acquaintance, and more importantly, learn from his example. Too many times you have leaders who came out of operations as big shots and become isolated and hear what the world is through 4 or 5 people who report to them.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

The concept of "two-in-a-box" leadership has been examined extensively over the past few years. One of the most thorough discussions is in the HBR article The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas. We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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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. For example, if your partner isn’t on board, many people might choose to avoid conflicts between “your-wife-or-your-life” or “your-man-or-your-plan.” Some things in business and life are simply out of our control.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. As an example, she described a current project to build an app for justice. She faced her greatest challenge during her posting in Jakarta.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. Lublin’s example of Mark Fields’s experience at Ford is on point. ” By way of her examples, Lublin touches on another finding in my research. That is good news for the companies involved.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Participants in our Approach to Leadership Excellence training course frequently tell us that management today has a tendency to focus on finding what’s wrong and repairing it, or even punishing it, instead of finding what’s right and rewarding it. Photo Credit: Disney Institute.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Baffled by these findings, we set out to find and study examples of extraordinary companies that close the gap between strategy and execution — companies such as Amazon, Apple, CEMEX, Danaher, Frito-Lay (the snacks enterprise within PepsiCo), and Haier. Starbucks is a classic example. What is our chosen value proposition?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, Tom Caroll was loaned from Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League to Swansea City. For example, in the Premier League, players on loan are not permitted to play against the team loaning them. Admittedly, these cutting edge examples of talent lending are still rare. Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

he was decrying the sorry state of leadership, not asking about particular places. Even in quiet times, there's a chance for mischief or missteps if leaders leave a vacuum, with no one clearly in charge and lack of clarity about how to operate. When former auto executive Lee Iaccoca titled a book, " Where Have All the Leaders Gone ?"

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The timeline showed five improvement initiatives matching the eras of five presidents: Quality Action Teams (1992-1995), Total Cycle Time (1995-2000), Perfect Order (2000-2003), Grainger Performance System (Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma) (2004-2007), and Lean (2008). For example, you could use "continuous improvement" instead of "kaizen."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

In 2004, CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove extended the expectation of measuring and publicly reporting outcomes to other clinical areas. For example, our outcomes data for patients who undergo radical prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancer show that the risk for survival without biochemical relapse within five years is 94%.

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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. 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

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. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. When Knudstorp took over as CEO in 2004, he quickly settled on a course of action: return the company to its core. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

For example, at The Fat Duck in the UK (which has had three Michelin stars since 2004, except in 2016 when it closed for refurbishment, and where I worked on the innovation side), cooking temperatures are systematically controlled to 0.1°C, Let’s consider an example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership. In other words, the new leader’s disinvestment cut meat as well as fat.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

According to another , “GM has said the issue was discovered as early as 2001, and in 2004, a company engineer ran into the problem during the testing phase of the soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Cobalt.”. Creating a new leadership position focused on safety is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it shows seriousness of purpose.

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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. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

He did so, we believe, by mounting a campaign that fully leveraged the principles of conversation-based leadership. From his fabled keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention to his high-pressure speech on race in 2008, Obama proved able to talk about sensitive issues in a way that promised to bring people together.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% from 2004 to 2007. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. And they succeeded wildly.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Apple learned this the hard way.

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