LDRLB

OCTOBER 15, 2012

A recently completed working paper by Efaim Benmelech of Harvard and Carola Frydman of Boston University, studied companies run by CEOs with military experience from 1980 to 2006 with the intent of examining whether military experience led to a signature leadership style. David Burkus is the editor of LDRLB.

Ethics 156

Ethics Leadership Styles Bond CEO 156

Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. As early as 2004, research by Catalyst, Inc.

Diversity 50

Diversity McKinsey Team Leadership 50

Women on Business

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Whether solutions to better communicate or how to best manage employees, here are 5 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Business Growth: Expand thru Alliance Partnership. Learn from industry leaders. For example, since 2004, I’ve spent countless hours as a volunteer SCORE counselor and personally mentor aspiring entrepreneurs.

Strategy 226

Strategy Mentor Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 226

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

The data from the study come from 111 CEOs in the computer hardware and software industries from 1992-2004. The authors caution that although narcissism had no effect on performance in the highly dynamic industry they studied, this finding might not hold true in other industries. Simmons, Ph.D.

CEO 90

CEO P&L Organization Organizational Behavior 90

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.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Steve Farber

MAY 7, 2011

Having started out as an entrepreneur in my late 20’s to early 30’s, I’ve worked for the last two decades in leadership development in the corporate world. I spent 6 years as Vice President of The Tom Peters Company , whose founder and namesake is arguably the most influential “management guru” of our time. Again: business guy.

Commitment 103

Commitment Books Licensing Retail 103

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

David Jones currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of CardLab, a pioneer in the prepaid industry. The first to offer businesses the ability to customize a Visa Incentive Card with a company logo, the Dallas based company was founded in 2004. Management Would be Easy if You Didn’t Have to Deal with People, part 2 of 3.

Motivation 51

Motivation Incentives Chief Executive Officer Absenteeism 51

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

Children can get better grades; parents can start cottage industries. Now, a completely different industry: wholesale food components and retail baking. Replacing kerosene provides better light that needs no fuel, isn’t toxic, won’t set the house on fire, reduces pollution, and ends a money drain. 656,952 tons of CO2 offset.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

There are a variety of places where corporations and boards look for potential CEOs, but the leagues of management consulting generally isn’t one of them. So why should a company consider hiring a management consultant to be their CEO? Leadership choices depend on many factors, of course, and need to be incredibly nuanced.

Consultative 9

Consultative CEO Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. This product-centric mindset is not entirely new. Customers" Have Become "Users".

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

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.

Leadership Styles 120

Leadership Styles Leadership Long-term Follow-up 120

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. The reasons were straightforward: An outsider often did not know the industry or its suppliers, customers, or competitors, nor did they know the capabilities of the company and its people.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

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? This question was at the heart of a recent study we conducted that is forthcoming at the Academy of Management Journal. increased by over $300,000.

Execution 9

Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For example, employees may be reluctant to report safety issues or errors for fear of being reprimanded by their managers or shunned by their colleagues. The most effective way to build a culture of transparency begins with those in leadership positions. There can be many barriers, some of which can be quite complex.

Health Care 11

Health Care Quality Report Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

What we found surprised us: Companies that are great at both strategy and execution don’t follow the prevailing practices of their industries. Instead, leaders of these companies excel at five unconventional acts — management practices that contradict conventional wisdom. First, these companies commit to an identity.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

No matter how successful or seemingly secure any business appears, there are no longer periods of calm seas for leaders in any industry. A broad statistic reinforces this fact emphatically: More than half the companies that were industry leaders in 1955 were still industry leaders in 1990. What emerged was startling.

CEO 16

CEO Self-aware Bottom-up Industry 16

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.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Magazine profiles of very successful companies are endeavors of dubious value; they often manage to catch an organization just as it peaks and heads into decline, and the strengths they describe soon start looking more like liabilities. Nokia continued to grow, and dominate the global mobile-phone industry, for years.

Team 14

Team Crisis Globalization Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

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). Myth #4: Chinese top leaders stay in power a long time.

Long-term 13

Long-term Short-term Globalization Reputation 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

He assumed leadership of Coca-Cola''s large South Africa operation eight years later, before taking on leadership positions worldwide and the CEO job in in 2004. In 2008 he was named by Beverage Industr y magazine as the sector''s CEO of the year. They''ve often done so under pressure from investors.

Long-term 8

Long-term Marketing Short-term Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. But Chrysler was in bankruptcy, and we didn’t know whether our Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership that we opened in 2004 would survive the ax of the bankruptcy court. Some things in business and life are simply out of our control.

Learning-by-Doing 256

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 256

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. And that’s what great leadership is all about. Popularity: 7% [ ?

Media 306

Media Blog Learning-by-Doing Influence 306

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Here are four examples: The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative , founded in 2004, unites local governments, community colleges, and businesses in the San Francisco area. It has also upgraded the skills of more than 1,000 incumbent workers in the health care, hospitality, property services, automotive services, and green industries.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Borrowing and lending talent is common and even essential in one particular industry — professional soccer. Like the Premier League in soccer, Khazanah plays the role of investor and broker, creating a structure that allows the borrowing and lending companies to mitigate the risk and costs of managing the loans themselves.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. In short, strategic IT leadership in a high-speed world is about mixing fast and slow. billion in revenues.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

What''s missing, though, is something like this: CEO Risk: Much of JPMorgan Chase''s excellent performance relative to its peers in recent years can be attributed to its Chairman and CEO, who has proved to be a uniquely valuable combination of careful risk manager and hard-driving business leader. Boards Leadership Succession planning'

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

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. Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. The list goes on.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

Goal 137

Goal Short-term Long-term Crisis 137

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. Do you diligently set aside time each day or week to read your industry's trade journals and Blogs, and do you attend industry trade shows? Amazon has almost single-handedly bankrupted Borders. FYE is shriveling. Bottom line?

Business Model 62

Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

It’s not a secret that women’s progress into senior leadership roles has been glacially slow. In the subset of countries where Grant Thornton has been conducting the survey since 2004 (it’s added countries over time), most don’t show a lot of change. That hasn’t happened.

Execution 10

Execution Company Chief Executive Officer Survey 10

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 a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Build a Re-Founding Team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

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. It is currently at less than o.5%

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. We came to this conclusion through interviews with CTOs across a range of industries, which we conducted as part of an NSF study to identify factors explaining differences in firms’ RQ.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

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. Kram, the Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management and author of Mentoring at Work. They started talking about what they did.

Mentor 16

Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

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.

Report 8

Report Learning-by-Doing Crisis Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

The restaurant industry is notorious for being competitive, risky, and low-margin. 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,

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8