Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 18, 2012

It brings executive leaders to a quiet place where they can see the value of stopping, looking, listening and feeling, allowing intuition to enter decisions, using connection to drive operations, welcoming the change that becomes or evolves, in line with a whole new menu of rewards that corporations of the future will embrace.

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Open-book Ethics Leadership Styles Entrepreneur 276

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Fortunately, the surgeon operated before the worst could happen and my husband recovered completely. McKinsey recently noted, “Numerous studies show that in a business-as-usual environment, compassionate leaders perform better and foster more loyalty and engagement by their teams. Emotionally intelligent leaders raise revenue margins.

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Emotional Intelligence Training Goleman McKinsey 98

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The risk is that when faced with the intense pressure an external shock, such as a recession, places upon managers, they can be tempted to take short cuts, reduce costs to the bone, and fundamentally break these implicit contracts, both through reducing pay and benefits, but also shortchanging employees in a variety of ways.

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Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 85

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

In addition to caring for patients in the exam room or operating suite, physicians face challenges of navigating the reporting requirements of new payment models. His life took a turn in 2004 and he “managed to taper off the drugs.” Today, Mr. Ortenzio heads his church’s ministry, Celebrate Recovery , to help addicts.

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P&L Stress Self-aware Human Needs 150

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

How to Earn Trus t and Lead Teams. His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. Often, they are quietly discussed among team members. How does this work?

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 133

Experience to Lead

AUGUST 24, 2021

After 13 operations, doctors told him that there was nothing more that could be done. And he painted such a vivid picture of me going to the Paralympic Games, winning medals, breaking records, and representing Team USA that I started to believe it could come true. [It In high school, I became the captain of my track team.

Leadership 52

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Sports Open-book 52

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. Each store employs 170 to 200 team members, fondly referred to as “roadies.” While he can easily be seen as a leader with a lot of great ideas, he credits his team with helping him come up with and implement the best ones. “If

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Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 70

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This was then compared to the researcher’s own work on groups and teams from around 20 published studies across a range of different work settings. The freelance workforce consists of the likes of managers, directors and other professionals, and represent by far the most productive aspects of the freelance economy.

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Report Project Learning-by-Doing Skills 86

Next Level Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

The result of the poor leadership and management includes mismarked graves, unmarked graves, split graves and at least four burial urns that somehow ended up in a landfill. The mess at Arlington reminds me of three truths that are critical to the effective management of any organization. When everyone's in charge, no one is.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

When you have a team looking up to you for guidance and instruction, it’s important to remain consistent in the way you lead. But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. I work as a part of the team.

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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. Now, he’s the president and chief operating officer for Marco’s (and was featured earlier this year on CBS’ Undercover Boss ). ” Change the world. Seems like a tall order.

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Chief Operating Officer How To COO Motivation 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

One of the most thorough discussions is in the HBR article The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas. CEO/COO teams or "Office of the President" arrangements can offer great strengths, but may also introduce some sizeable risks, as Stephen A. Miles and Michael D. Watkins conclude. How could we justify it?

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Team Leadership COO Software 15

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. At the time Nokia was riding high, and my charge was to explain why that was so.

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Team Crisis Globalization Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

When most organizations design new work processes, they assume that team members will make the best possible use of them to improve team performance. That is, they assume that team members will act rationally. The hardware team had employed similar processes in the past and found them helpful. The results?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

But what about the kinds of jobs where measuring someone’s “output” isn’t about counting the number of widgets they produced, but rather it’s about how they managed a team or influenced others or helped people collaborate better? Second, managers focus on opportunities, not score-keeping.

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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? Since that’s often the job of a consultant to begin with, should we be surprised?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2004, there was a severe earthquake and subsequent tsunami that resulted in profound effects to several Asian countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia. COVID-19 has changed virtually everything, including the way electronics manufacturers operate. as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011.

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Supply Chain Compliance Fashion Efficiency 112

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

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. Her team investigates and reports human rights violations, such as the ongoing genocide of the Yazidi minority by the Islamic State , also known as ISIS.

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Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. Every individual on every team in a company can strive, together, to deliver beyond what is deemed possible. Build trust.

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Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Sealed Air China has been successful not only because its senior managers understand the local market, but also because they are knowledgeable about the parent company's value proposition and technical strengths. That long stint earned him the trust of the global CEO, Bill Hickey, and his top management team.

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Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

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. Great Leaders Show Genuine Care for Their Teams.

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Positioning Content Commitment Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

When we started our first restaurant in 2004, our goal was to create a place where people wanted to not just eat but also to work. Soon, he brought us in to conduct workshops for the senior team at the northern California Whole Foods headquarters. Initially, the Whole Foods team members were a little skeptical.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

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. Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

In 2004, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave a performance of the modern classic 4' 33" by John Cage , a composition famous for its counterintuitive focus on the sounds of music not being played. I sometimes ask the executives and managers I coach to do something similarly counterintuitive. Looking for an edge over your competition ?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. And they use it the way other companies use financial reports — to inform operational and investment decisions. In short, it is their primary management system. The result?

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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).

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The team ended last season at the bottom of the standings (Las Vegas odds were 28 to 1 that they’d make it to the World Series), but rallied this year. I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Since most of Nemours’s patient revenue was from fee-for-service contracts, we designed this pilot program to integrate our population health expertise with our clinical operation, in an effort to better understand value-based care and reimbursement models and to further improve health outcomes in a population of children with asthma.

Health Care 8

Health Care Transportation Cost System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Yet, he found his path to the first team at Tottenham blocked by other more established players. Tottenham Hotspur feared that the lack of first team action would stunt Caroll’s development and growth. For example, in the Premier League, players on loan are not permitted to play against the team loaning them.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Managers in these organizations translate corporate objectives into a few straightforward guidelines that help employees make on-the-spot decisions and adapt to constantly shifting environments, while keeping the big picture in mind. Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. Growing to 20 people working in a more traditional office setting did not strike anyone as extreme change, yet the team found it had to work a lot harder to unearth problems and opportunities.

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Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Instead, leaders of these companies excel at five unconventional acts — management practices that contradict conventional wisdom. Second, many managers assume they should adopt the best practices of their industry and treat external benchmarking as the established path to success. First, these companies commit to an identity.

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