Remove 2005 Remove Development Remove Human Resources Remove Report
article thumbnail

Holding Powerful & Arrogant Bosses Accountable

Coaching Tip

Winston, a former executive responsible for leadership development at the Countrywide Financial Corporation, spent three years in a legal battle against Countrywide, the once-mighty mortgage giant, and its current owner, Bank of America, contending that he was punished and pushed out for not toeing the company line. million in damages.

Power 112
article thumbnail

Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

Our most successful coaching clients are executives who are committed to being great role models for leadership development and for living their company’s values. We have published research on leadership development that involved input from over 86,000 respondents. 7) Develop an ongoing follow-up process. I was wrong.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Plenty of large companies have dysfunctional executives, as many Fortune 500 human resource consultants can tell you. By 2005, the Chief Lightning Catcher found a company that wanted to acquire the firm and provide badly needed investment capital. But in December 2005, the offer fell through. Ford Motor Co. (a

article thumbnail

Change Your Company with Better HR Analytics

Harvard Business Review

The good news is that Big Data is making a difference in places and ways you might not expect, particularly in human resources. In their 2012 book, Transformative HR authors John Boudreau and Ravin Jesuthasan detailed a case study of Ameriprise Financial, a diversified financial services company spun off from American Express in 2005.

article thumbnail

What I’ve Learned from Talking About My Bipolar Disorder at Work

Harvard Business Review

Although everyone who reports to me is aware of my bipolar disorder, I didn’t feel ready to be that open. One World Health Organization report estimated that by 2020 depression may be the second leading cause of disability, surpassed only by certain types of heart disease. I assumed I was as prepared as I could be.

article thumbnail

The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

.” There is a virtuous cycle between productivity and people: Higher levels of productivity allow society to reinvest in human capital (most obviously, though not exclusively, via higher wages), and smart investments result in higher labor productivity. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic.

article thumbnail

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. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters.