First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The Practical Drucker: Applying the Wisdom of the World’s Greatest Management Thinker William A. Cohen Xenophon'

Drucker 75

Drucker Books Review Class 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The Practical Drucker: Applying the Wisdom of the World’s Greatest Management Thinker William A. Cohen Xenophon'

Drucker 75

Drucker Books Review Class 75

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 24, 2021

New r esearch from Copenhagen Business School highlights the significant impact it’s had on the workplace, and especially for the financial hit companies face if they permit sexual harassment in the workplace. The analysis reveals that companies suffer a fall of around 1.5% in their share price after reports of sexual harassment.

Analysis 83

Analysis Price Report Document 83

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The tipping point in all the organizations I work with who are serious about gender balance is when it becomes a leadership and management priority and is part of leaders’ own performance evaluations and accountability. Leading companies understood and addressed the 4 W’s as strategic, transversal foundations to their futures.

Diversity 52

Diversity Globalization Presenteeism CEO 52

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This is especially so as around two-thirds of the 40 million new jobs created in the US economy between 1980 and 2005 were created by new SMEs. For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs.

Engineering 135

Engineering Innovation Incubator Open-book 135

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 29, 2023

In 2005, Vineet Nayar made waves when he announced that the Indian IT company HCL would put employees first. It’s by no means universal, however, with Amazon famously having an empty chair at company meetings to represent customers. The company has also a somewhat patchy record when it comes to treating employees well.

Leadership Styles 59

Leadership Styles Trends Agility Letter 59

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The publication date of this post, December 1, 2020, marks the 20 th anniversary of our leadership development company, The Eblin Group. And, by the way, that guy is now Senior Vice President and Treasurer of his Fortune 500 company. There’s a lot to say and share about that for sure – more than one blog post can address.

Development 241

Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing 241

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 7, 2018

After all, you face 24/7/365, always-on media, government regulators, Wall Street analysts, company shareholders, community stakeholders, critics, customers and employees, each with different – and sometimes conflicting – demands. In 2005, however, I noticed a troublesome trend. What might that mean for how you manage?

Bottom-up 168

Bottom-up Health Care Policies Fashion 168

Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

Document management software can put important documents at your fingertips in seconds and help you keep everything organized. But which document management solution would work best for your office? Here are three tips to help you understand how document management software can help and which features you’ll need to make it work.

Document 66

Document Software Operations Management 66

Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2012

For example, if a company claims it welcomes innovation and risk taking, but then only rewards employees who toe the company line and reinforce the status quo, sooner or later people will simply stop asking questions, innovating, and stretching themselves. Instead, they will conform in order to please their bosses. Excessive optimism.

Budgeting 285

Budgeting Banking Ethics Commitment 285

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2007

I've had the opportunity to become a student of the "Topgrading" methodology for talent management. Trouble is, management is like the decathlon, with a lot of “events,” and if someone is strong in 8 events but weak in 2, that person will not succeed if competitors are strong in all 10. So, you’re fired!”

Management 120

Management Seminar Case Study Talent Management 120

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

R OBERT IGER has worked for the same company for forty-five years: twenty-two of them at ABC, and another twenty-three at Disney, after Disney acquired ABC in 1995—the last fourteen of those years, as the CEO of Disney. These priorities have guided the company through all of the growth and acquisitions since he was named CEO.

Leadership 215

Leadership Long-term Self-aware Short-term 215

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Guest post by Paul Smith : It happens every time you join a new company, or even when you change roles at the company you work for now. You have to spend months winning the trust and respect you’d already earned with the last group of people you managed. P&G is a market leader in almost every category they compete in.

Storytelling 120

Storytelling Audience Insurance Survey 120

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The researchers found that after examining 70 countries between 2005 and 2015, there is a clear link between the quality of institutions in a country and both the quality and quantity of entrepreneurship. Research from the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley underlines this point. Rules of the game. This includes an additional .

Succession 82

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2013

Further consider that four out of ten newly promoted managers and executives fail within 18 months of starting new jobs, according to research by Manchester, Inc, a leadership development firm in Bala Cynwyd, PA. Also, two out of every five new CEOs fail in the first 18 months (HBR, January 2005). Make him/her feel welcome.

Execution 123

Execution Reference Letter Teamwork 123

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. So BDAI is pretty useful for management to be able to see where we are and where we might be headed. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next.

CEO 66

CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1%

Press Release 113

Press Release Discount PR Directory 113

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. percent a year higher than those with no female representation.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer How To Leadership Telecommunications 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2016

These circumstances made the market ripe for our business idea – a central exchange for commercial real estate. We first tested our concept for The Commercial Property Exchange with a targeted group of real estate executives from Fortune 100 companies. 500 company. Don’t Confuse Concept Validation with Preorders.

Real Estate 50

Real Estate Chief Financial Officer Business Model Magazine 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

She joined eBay in 1998 and now, 10 years later, she’s following her own advice and leaving the company she helped drive to online success. Meg Whitman, 51, has been quoted saying a CEO should never stay with the same company for more than 10 years, because by that time the company needs a fresh outlook.

Press Release 100

Press Release CEO Discount PR 100

Coaching Tip

APRIL 22, 2012

In The New York Times of April 22, 2012, a former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance. In its rush to build stores, he said, the company had paid bribes to obtain permits in virtually every corner of the country. Munich wrote in an e-mail to top Wal-Mart executives.

Ethics 102

Ethics Leadership Execution Construction 102

Coaching Tip

APRIL 27, 2012

And if your company's culture is to mean anything, you have to hang--publicly--those in your midst who would destroy it. And yet, for some reason, too many leaders think a company's values can be relegated to a five-minute conversation with HR and a new employee. that can ruin a company's reputation. It's a grim image, we know.

Welch 117

Welch Ethics Automotive Globalization 117

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff,” centers on how Immelt is leading the company away from financial services and “soft services” like broadcasting and back to its historical roots of technology driven manufacturing.   Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005. 

Leadership 178

Leadership How To Executive Coaching Blog 178

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Morgan (2005) uses a great image of a spider-plant to describe the decentralization trend. Can for profit companies adopt a starfish model? Handy’s (1998) shamrock organization might provide the right blend of centralization and decentralization to make it worthwhile for for-profit companies. New York, NY: Portfolio.

Decentralization 74

Decentralization Organization Trends Reference 74

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market.

Project 50

Project Idea Generation Brainstorming Long-term 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. What did 2010 look like for you and your company? But there’s only one that really matters: Did your company effectively execute its plans and initiatives? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Execution 68

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

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. Social Media has its own language protocol, and “company-speak” isn’t one of them. So what to do?

Media 305

Media Sharpe Learning-by-Doing Blog 305

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. Stock market reactions are often used to judge whether a firm’s actions are successful. Consistent with prior research, we found that there was a -1.4%

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Sample CEO 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

Leadership 50

Leadership Newsletter Drucker Strategic Planning 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

When I launched my second business, a publishing company called Sigma Communications, I was filled with passion but knew next to nothing about publishing a magazine. 500 company. In 2005, he sold USI to Johnson Controls, a Fortune 100 company, and at that point, became CEO of JCI’s Global Workplace Business for the Americas.

Real Estate 74

Real Estate Magazine Entrepreneur Advertising 74

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Sigma’s main purpose was to provide essential real estate information to the financial officers and real estate executives of the largest 5,000 companies in the United States through a single source. 500 company. The Birth of Sigma Communications. In 2001, Ed earned Entrepreneur of the Year honors from Ernst & Young.

Real Estate 50

Real Estate Magazine Outsourcing Entrepreneur 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The deep recession in commercial real estate had forced corporations to freeze all marketing budgets. 500 company. In 2005, he sold USI to Johnson Controls, a Fortune 100 company, and at that point, became CEO of JCI’s Global Workplace Business for the Americas. Advertising revenues were slow to trickle in.

Real Estate 50

Real Estate Advertising Magazine Finance 50

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.

Health Care 40

Health Care System Deming Letter 40

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. “SWAT – Seize The Accomplishment&# – Timothy L.

Books 176

Books Review Leadership Crisis 176

Curious Cat

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Some excerpts from the interview: I have maintained a portfolio that I call the sleep well portfolio for 10 years (started April 2005). John Hunter: My main thoughts on that are to greatly value companies that are likely to weather economic calamity greater than any since the great depression. lose money.

Health Care 40

Health Care Long-term Rate of Return Banking 40

Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul. My former employer decided to downsize our management group within two months of my planned exodus. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! After fourteen years, I left my prior life on my terms.

Press Release 100

Press Release PR Exit Strategy Discount 100

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Crisis 63

Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63