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How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View

Next Level Blog

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    I love those articles because they’re great opportunities for data mining on leadership.  A strong leadership point of view is memorable. 

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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

Next Level Blog

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.  Leadership is more complicated.    I think we've blown past Leadership 2.0 and are already on to Leadership 3.0.    I think we've blown past Leadership 2.0

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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

Harvard Business Review

Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones? I looked at quarterly earnings call transcripts for Yahoo and two of its competitors from late 2005 to the first quarter of 2016 and counted mentions of “mobile,” “phone,” or “smartphone.”

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Innovative Companies Demand Innovative Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Jobs assembled a team of brilliant engineers, gave them the needed resources, and infused the Macintosh team with a vision of what was possible. When Jobs returned and restructured his senior management team with more discovery-driven capacity, Apple's innovation engine ignited again. That's what an innovative leader does.

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Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Apple's Innovation Premium

Harvard Business Review

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%. Can he do it? Can Cook do this?

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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A Story from Google Shows You Don’t Need Power to Drive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

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.