Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It's only by looking back that we see how things developed and how one thing led to another.   On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.  As The People Developer I clearly agree with your observations.   You can only connect them retrospectively. . 

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The succession process is a crossroads in a country's development trajectory. As a result, succession planning techniques developed in the private sector are often applicable to public sector institutions. In Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, both the Ruler and Crown Prince are in their 70s and 80s. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. CEOs of midsized companies I’ve come to know over the last 30 years share the same dream. Midmarket investment bankers love to shop potential acquisitions to their CEO clients.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

In my 2011 HBR article, The Cosmopolitan Corporation , I argued that a cosmopolitan leadership team just might be the critical organizational ingredient for firms to succeed in a world that is neither global nor local but rather a complex combination of the two (what I call World 3.0 ). Some 30% of U.S.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. In fact, he was the CEO and president of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for almost two decades and now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

CEOs of average companies, in comparison, scored at about the 68th percentile. Jobs was so impressed that he took his entire programming team on a tour of PARC and returned to Apple hell-bent on developing a personal computer that both incorporated and improved upon the technologies he and his team saw. Lafley became CEO.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. In fact, he was the CEO and president of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for almost two decades and now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 29, 2010

Its CEO at the time was great at cutting costs and preserving capital, but investors weren’t buying it. And change it did, because the new CEO had a vision that went beyond product, and costs, and overhead, and costs of capital. And that CEO is Steve Jobs. It was about passion. And about people who have it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

But we believe that multinationals from rich countries who are already developing products for one emerging market possess unique advantages that can help them win in other emerging markets too. The smart building router was the first product developed by the team in Bangalore first for the Indian market but is now available globally.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

We hear CEOs being analysed as leaders of one type or other. Is it our British way to over analyse things to understand inorder to predict the outcome of future or American way to brand CEOs with a style so they don’t act out of the grove. Human instincts grows and matures.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. But I believe that Dimon literally didn't see perceive disaster unfolding before him.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Skouras, the company’s CEO, thought that sounded like a swell idea. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. In late 2009, CEO Lori Bush was searching for a way to raise the productivity of the company’s sales force. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million. The results were remarkable.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I saw one of them last week at the World Business Forum (#wbf10 on Twitter) in New York – former General Electric CEO Jack Welch. He had quite the command of the audience, answering questions with searing honesty and with a flair only possessed by the charismatic. Who are these people? The charismatic leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

On one hand, many noted that in the 1990s, following scandals in Indonesia and Vietnam, the shoe giant’s name had become, in the words of the company’s co-founder and former CEO Phil Knight, “synonymous with slave wages, forced overtime, and arbitrary abuse.” workers over those in poorer countries.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Seats are filling fast - dont delay [link] about 42 minutes ago from TweetDeck @tom_peters No, absolutely not. :-) about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck in reply to tom_peters @debworks Indeed he was.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 28, 2010

. “ 7 Lessons For Leading In Crisis “ – Bill George I recently had the good fortune of seeing Bill George speak at the World Economic Forum in NYC; he’s an ex-big company CEO who spoke about leading in crisis, and turning crisis into opportunities. Here is the list: 1).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

She published her first book, Spark: How Creativity Works in 2011 and now hosts her own podcast, Pursuit of Spark! He creates a vision for the world that is led by the brands that can develop, nurture and build a tribe of followers. Watch this TED talk to inspire more creativity in your work and personal life. Like to read?

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The best illustration I can offer came from one of the speakers, the CEO of Kraft Foods, Irene Rosenfeld. The 2nd Day speakers, particularly in the afternoon sessions, made it clear to me that a lot of effective leadership practice is hiding in plain sight. That is, sometimes we go too deep in searching for answers.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

David McCleary author, Leaving Prisons: Release Your Trapped Value ceo, [link] blog, [link] Cate.TV Only the strong become servants because they have mastered the illogical instability of self-supremacy. Cheers and Regards! February 17, 2010 at 3:34 am Great post – thanks!

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

We have a lot of fun together, sometimes too much, and often at the expense of our CEO who is a very good sport. And the example of a man who had developed what I call Inner Leadership… because without knowing love from the inside-out it’s impossible to authentically show such love and model it for other people.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

Look at the positives first when developing usage policies. I serve on the board of a small-ish bank, and at our board meeting yesterday the CEO announced that they were marching towards a social media strategy. It has implications from customer service to marketing to sales to HR and beyond. Great stuff!

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 13, 2010

alex June 14, 2010 at 4:57 pm Usually, CEOs have to take decisions having less than 10% of the information (hard facts). ] Tweet This Post Tagged as: knee-jerk reaction , knee-jerk response , Leadership { 7 comments… read them below or add one } Debbie Brown June 13, 2010 at 7:07 pm Well said- great post-!

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). Many of the clients I worked with had had developed the idea for years, but they were reluctant to quit their Jobs, or were afraid of failing. Deming Insitute Grant and Visiting CEOs in California.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 11, 2010

The movie isnt well known because the writer and director, Christopher Nolan, achieved acclaim for his later works, Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and this year Inception (2010). Thats what ProStar Coach provides for developing personal strength - 24/7 virtual coaching in an online virtual gym.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When Kent Thiry took over as CEO of Total Renal Care in 1999, the company was losing more than $60 million per year. Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. When Knudstorp took over as CEO in 2004, he quickly settled on a course of action: return the company to its core.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. In 2005, a single post by blogger Jeff Jarvis led to a customer uprising now known as "Dell Hell." Dell's response , led by CEO Michael Dell, was to "join the conversation your customers are having without you."

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Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

was developed at a U.S. I wrote about this in 2005: Excessive Drug Prices in the USA (and several times since then, Drug Price Crisis [2008] – it is a long term, huge economic problem for the USA). Americans pay 300% more for this prostate cancer drug than much of the rest of the world. Related: USA Health Care Spending 2013: $2.9

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

As Carly Fiorina enjoys a surge in recent opinion polls in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, her record as former CEO of Hewlett Packard (HP) is being put under the microscope. She never took the time to develop rapport with individual employees, and therefore never got buy-in or support for her initiatives.

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