Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 21, 2011

Last year I met with Jim Goodnight, SAS Institute’s founder and CEO, to learn more about his leadership and SAS Institute’s culture. The Conference Board released research in January that concluded employee satisfaction and engagement in America were at the lowest point since it began surveying more than 20 years ago.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Posted in Uncategorized 27 Responses to “Ten little “ings” that improve your leadership&# Becky Robinson: November 15, 2010 at 10:13 am Persevering — continuing to do what’s right even in difficult circumstances. Mary Jo Asmus : November 15, 2010 at 10:36 am You bet, Becky! Thanks for the addition.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 11, 2011

hr #CEO # TChat #. RT @ LeaderChat : Many Dissatisfied at Work, Few Looking Elsewhere, Study Says [link] New survey results from Accenture #. RT @ TalentCulture : Serving as Your Catalyst for Change and Future Growth [link] (by @ TanveerNaseer ) # TChat #career #. Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2010-06-25. Thanks Allison!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 11, 2010

Her level of frustration has been rising as surveys show that some of the employees complain that she plays favorites and they express concern that they have been left out of the reward system. Posted in Uncategorized 6 Responses to “Stop Trying to Make Others Happy&# Tanveer Naseer : July 13, 2010 at 6:02 pm Excellent post, Mary Jo.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Research has found that superstar CEOs, those who win awards like “CEO of the year,” can earn an average of about $7.8 Can prestigious companies get away with paying their CEOs less? CEO salaries from ExecuComp, a data set on top executive compensation for all firms in the S&P 1500.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 3, 2010

← Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. We’d love you to help Kathy with her research by taking two minutes to answer her anonymous online survey. ← Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet. Skip to content Home Welcome! Not you of course.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

I began my tenure as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001 with the mandate to turn around an iconic but struggling consumer products company. Soon after, I asked Gallup to conduct an engagement survey of our leadership to assess the level of personal commitment employees felt toward the organization and its goals. How did we do it?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Worse than this is the fact that 60% of average Americans only get through the first chapter.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

Only 14% of the world´s 500 largest corporations by revenue, the Fortune Global 500 , are led by a CEO who hails from a country other than the one where the corporation is headquartered, as Herman Vantrappen and I reported this June in Fortune. A 2005 survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that only 7.5%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm. The skills cited as most indispensable for C-level executives—not just CEOs—are those that jointly constitute leadership. What executive skills are most prized by companies today? Strategic thinking and execution.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Half of the 14 billionaires on Forbes magazine's 2010 list of the world's richest self-made women are from mainland China. New research from the Center for Work-Life Policy (CWLP) explores and analyzes the complicated career dynamics of this rich talent pool. But the similarities end there.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

If you are a business leader at the very top of your game, it will help you avoid career stagnation. A recent Gallup survey shows a record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed. Then in December of 2010, I received an email that changed my perspective, and my life. Regrets? "

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

About two in five workers think that if they focus on achieving results instead of punching the clock, their careers will suffer, according to FWI's Workplace Flexibility in the United States. And then in 2010, we beat it again.". But there are two problems: One, employees don't fully buy it. Here's what one company did.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Many employees are encouraged to “just be yourself,” only to find their authenticity — and their career ambitions — constrained by unwritten office rules about appearance, speech, and behavior. Is assimilation a smart career strategy or a sellout, a compromise to your authenticity or just a compromise?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Unless a founder has given his or her age in a magazine profile, or maintains a particularly public Facebook account, it’s hard to get age data without actually surveying entrepreneurs. CEOs and Presidents are 42 years old on average, with a median of 42. Entrepreneurship Tech industry'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

We recently surveyed more than 2,000 hiring managers about their recruiting behaviors and tactics. According to the survey, 46 percent of employers exclude salary and wages from their job listings, and the idea that companies should disclose a projected salary range before the interview phase will be a nonstarter for many employers.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Well, it’s a little risky to generalize, but we can draw some conclusions by looking at some of the trends in the database I have for the 360 degree leadership survey that’s based on my book, The Next Level. Relationship building has resulted in greater effectiveness and personal satisfaction in my position and career.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I had to step back and think about the themes in my own career and what I’ve been hearing this year from women all over the country. In a 2010 survey, a record 36% of women ages 25-29 had attained a bachelor’s degree compared to 28% of men of the same age. As of 2010, only 2.4% corporate boards. of the U.S.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

After three years of declining turnover among CEOs, churn at the top is back. As the economy improves, the rate of corner-office shakeups has picked up as more boards replace veteran CEOs with younger leaders with very different résumés. They also haven't necessarily spent their careers at one company or in a single industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. Early on in my career, I had a boss who discounted my ability to connect with clients. Had something catastrophic happened? In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. The problem?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

I had spent my career building emerging brands in the natural and organic consumer space, first leading sales and marketing for Kashi cereal, then founding SPINS, a market research firm for the natural products industry. Second, we surveyed consumers to understand what was appealing about Zevia.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

To answer these questions, we surveyed several dozen senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm in 2010. For more on the survey respondents, see “Who We Surveyed” below.) The answer turns out to be far more nuanced than mere wealth accumulation and career advancement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Two-thirds of global executives surveyed (68%) have recognized that gender equality in the C-suite is a growing public issue. Over the past five years, there has been steady growth in the number of global media stories about female CEOs. The media’s impact as a promoter of gender balance is undeniable.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With a heavy heart, BFC’s CEO removed his promising protégé from the role and redeployed him back in the US. It turned out to be the best move the CEO ever made. It also became clear that the company was going to massively miss the promises it had made to the Board and the Street if John remained in the role.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

.” – Stephen Turban (former data scientist, Humanyze), Laura Freeman (data analyst, Humanyze), and Ben Waber (Humanyze CEO, visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab). The results: When single women were told their answers would be viewed by just their career counselors, single and married women gave similar answers.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

While there are many reasons for this, there is no arguing the fact that the average tenure for CEOs has been plummeting for the last decade. The harsh reality is that it is simply more difficult to succeed in today's complex world, and most CEOs would readily admit that.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. One guy says, “You’re CEO. You do CEO/chairman stuff. I came armed with lots of questions, but ended up only getting to two or three. Why Fed chairmen can’t do research.

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