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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Tweets that mention Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven -- Topsy.com says: February 1, 2011 at 4:21 pm [.] Dickens Jr.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). A Harvard Business School professor, Kotter emphasises a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. Drucker passed away in 2005. Winning (2005).

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

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. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

Harvard Business Review

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. Or did they get it and just fail to execute?

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

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How Midsized Companies Can Avoid Fatal Acquisitions

Harvard Business Review

General Electric’s corporate business development group (about a dozen professionals) is bigger than the entire executive team in many midsized companies. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011. It has since doubled revenue to $26 million.