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"I'd Like My Life Back" -- a lesson for CEOs in building an organization that listens to warnings

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Dave Yarin: It was April 2010, and a Fortune 500 CEO would utter one of the most ill advised yet memorable lines in corporate history. Before the 2010 disaster, Hayward was described as "unassuming and modest." Training and education – How do you train employees to identify and report concerns?

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Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture? The report also concluded that the downward trend began long before the Great Recession. The report also concluded that the downward trend began long before the Great Recession.

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Has SAS Institute’s Goodnight Cracked the Code on Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

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 report also concluded that the downward trend began long before the Great Recession. Recently, SAS was named number 1 on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 2010.

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Social Media for CEOs

N2Growth Blog

They are risk managers who believe in protecting what was rather than embracing what is, and what will be. . According to eMarketer, the average time spent per user on social networks as of late 2010 exceeded 5 hours per month. Whether you Tweet, Blog, Facebook, YouTube, etc., Great leaders lead by example.

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Good Risk Management Means No Buck-Passing

Harvard Business Review

pipeline explosion in September 2010. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a report that cited multiple failures by PG&E and government regulators. PG&E could still have conducted intelligent risk management in the interest of its own shareholders. • Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) estimated that 47.6

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Questions and Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If as a leader you don’t take the time to get to know your team members on a very personal basis you simply won’t build the trust necessary to successfully weather the seasons of leadership. And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail.

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UBS Systems Failed the "Too Big to Fail" Bank

Harvard Business Review

Every single Chief Risk Officer and every single non-executive director of every single "too big to fail" financial institution should be challenged by shareholders to prove they've got a surer grasp of risk than UBS. The April 2008 "Shareholder Report on UBS's Write-Downs" was damning both in clarity and specificity.