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DECEMBER 1, 2010

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” By Patrick M.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

On October 23, 1996, the day AT&T announced that John Walter, an industry outsider, would be named CEO, the company’s market valuation dropped by $4 billion. How shareholders react to a big organizational announcement, such as the appointment of a new CEO or a large acquisition, can have a lingering impact on that event.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1 Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. Google''s 2005 purchase of YouTube fits into this category. s main revenue streams.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. Only 14% of the world´s 500 largest corporations by revenue, the Fortune Global 500 , are led by a CEO who hails from a country other than the one where the corporation is headquartered, as Herman Vantrappen and I reported this June in Fortune.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The CEO of Wells Fargo, John Stumpf, apologized in front of a congressional panel Tuesday , saying in a statement , “I accept full responsibility for all unethical sales practices.” In 2005 the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh Inc., That suggests that firing employees was not enough to curb the actions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

First, the political succession process in many emerging economies — from parliamentary democracies with dominant parties, such as Singapore and South Africa, to nondemocratic polities, such as China — often closely resembles the process of selecting a new CEO within a business. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

CEOs of midsized companies I’ve come to know over the last 30 years share the same dream. Like a shopper in a flea market, it is quite easy for a CEO at a midsized company to get distracted by sexy deals. Midmarket investment bankers love to shop potential acquisitions to their CEO clients. The San Jose, Calif.-based

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Truth is, some of the most successful and iconic leaders, including many CEOs, were (and are) consummate, accomplished prevaricators. There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. There’s Larry Ellison, one of the richest men in the world and Oracle CEO and co-founder.

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Morale Ethics Case Study CEO 10

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

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005-2010 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%. Before A.G. Clearly, Cook's challenge is daunting.

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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. Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. 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. Larry Spears.

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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. I am not sure! We should leave our instincts to make choices in the situations.

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Leadership Leadership Styles Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 362

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

CEOs of average companies, in comparison, scored at about the 68th percentile. When Jobs returned and restructured his senior management team with more discovery-driven capacity, Apple's innovation engine ignited again. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005–2009 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. Dell returned as CEO in 2007. How do you get back on top?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The JP Morgan Chase board of directors has vexed the world with its terse announcement in a recent 8-K filing that CEO Jamie Dimon would receive a big pay raise — $20 million in total pay for 2013, up from $11.5 Despite this core failing on corporate culture, he is obviously an extremely talented CEO in many other respects.

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Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. 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. Larry Spears.

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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. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

I listened in this morning as Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained what they're planning to do with Apple's $98 billion in cash (pay a $2.65 corporations, through growth of their overseas operations and increasingly aggressive tax management, have already dramatically reduced their U.S. corporations. or whatever.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. 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. Revenue in 2011 was $59 million. The future looked bright. But they must learn it.

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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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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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Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

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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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

I learned a couple of very valuable lessons – autocratic/fear management wasn’t going to work over the long-term, and I should never pretend to be something that I’m not. I think fear-based management is a carry over from the industrial age and scarcity days. Cheers and Regards!

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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. But apparently it wasn’t to the previous management – Rosenfeld discovered that way too many customers really didn’t like their products. That is, sometimes we go too deep in searching for answers.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 13, 2010

There are three main ways to do it: Proper Anger Management Respect for the Facts Keeping Hearsay in Perspective Let’s start with anger. Anger must be managed – that release must go somewhere other than the knee. Do some deep breathing. It lurks in many places in the workplace. Take a walk.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Mack McCoy December 4, 2009 at 11:42 am What a wonderful example of what true leadership / management looks like and WHY it is so successful. We have a lot of fun together, sometimes too much, and often at the expense of our CEO who is a very good sport. Ben Kimba Green December 4, 2009 at 10:34 am Great post! Thank you for sharing!

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

Because this elephant can take on so many faces, there is a good chance that all of those points of view exist within the management ranks of many companies – even the ones that already have some kind of SM presence. Do we dive straight in, stick our toe in the water, or just put our head in the sand and hope it goes away?

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. I quit my job, and here I am, working only on what I am good at: business quality management.

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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). since 1987. For each person, some patterns will be stronger than others.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2011

On June 12, 2005, in his commencement address to Stanford's graduating class, Steve Jobs revealed: "When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' On August 24, 2011 Jobs woke up to a very different tune. Obviously, the answer has changed.

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Class Follow-up CEO Company 18

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. When Kent Thiry took over as CEO of Total Renal Care in 1999, the company was losing more than $60 million per year. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. Build a Re-Founding Team. billion in revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It is a simple matter of the big and strong (but often too slow) being unable to manage, or even see, the small and weaker (but fast and agile) threat. In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. In 2010, Gap announced a brand new logo, then retreated after a week.

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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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Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. 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). Decades ago W. One of those was excessive health care costs. was developed at a U.S.

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