Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

He or she must believe in and articulate a “higher ambition,” as we call it at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. Becton Dickinson , a global medical technology company, has made its purpose helping all people live healthier lives. It must be deeper than only making money for shareholders and managers.

Company 8

Company Teamwork Commitment Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

National and airline leaders weren’t able to adjust to the fluid and complex situation by engaging external resources in the critical first hours and days after the plane’s disappearance. By contrast, consider the 2010 Chilean mining disaster, which resulted in the triumphant rescue of 33 miners trapped underground.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Prior to joining American Express in 2010, Schulman was CEO of Virgin Mobile and Priceline. Specifically, he saw that the advent of digital technologies was going to fundamentally alter the way people conduct commerce, pay for things, and manage and move their money. It was a technology-driven form factor. Leadership'

Execution 8

Execution Software Banking Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. The airline industry has experienced great volatility from deregulation, takeovers through mergers and acquisitions, and, as always, unpredictable forces of nature. Unlocking Energy. It’s not for everyone.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In a survey conducted by IBM in 2010 with more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide, 80% of leaders anticipated greater complexity in the future, but fewer than half of them felt confident to deal with that complexity. The business environment today has indeed become mindboggling complex due to accelerating globalization and rapid technology changes.

Ethics 8

Ethics Morale Airlines CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Advanced technology is at the core of virtually every company’s business model today. The leadership of the change effort can’t end with the top team, the top 100 managers, or the top 1,000 managers. Digitization vs. Humanization. Entire value chains are being digitized. Hold everyone accountable.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Fortune recently named its Businesspersons of the Year for 2010 , and the list was, for the most part, predictable. But the CEO who took first place this year was singled out for what seems to be an entirely new and noteworthy type of leadership. Yes, there were wunderkind founder-CEOs like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. Valuable enough?"

Parcell 11

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 11