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Gaining Trust on Day One

Great Leadership By Dan

You have to spend months winning the trust and respect you’d already earned with the last group of people you managed. A great example of this happened in January of 2005 when Procter & Gamble bought the Gillette Company in the largest consumer packaged goods acquisition in history. The average answer was 30 percent.

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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. I had experience a bullying boss who didn’t listen to their employees.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

Sadly, it didn’t take very long to realize that the plant had a very traditional management style, very traditionally combative labor/management relations, and a typical blame-and-shame, command-and-control environment that made people miserable and didn’t deliver quality to the customer or any of the right business results.

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management. The people that we coach (in agreement with their managers, if they are not the CEO) work with us to determine desired leadership behavior. 3) Collect feedback.

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How One Company Contained Health Care Costs and Improved Morale

Harvard Business Review

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. This is not just good for individuals; it’s good for business. Well-being has to be woven into the very fabric of the company.”

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Why Aren’t There More Asian Americans in Leadership Positions?

Harvard Business Review

.” A highly cited 2015 report on diversity in Silicon Valley by an Asian professional organization found that at five big tech firms (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo), Asians and Asian Americans are well represented in lower-level positions but underrepresented at management and executive levels.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

This question was at the heart of a recent study we conducted that is forthcoming at the Academy of Management Journal. ” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012. increased by over $300,000.