Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. When McRaven retired in 2014, he had 37 years as a Navy SEAL under his belt, leading men and women at every level of the special operations community.

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Books Norton Leadership Crisis 322

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 17, 2023

Risk-averse approach The researchers analyzed financial data from over 200 companies that were included in the Forbes 500 list between 2014 and 2017. They only analyzed companies where the CEO was hired between 2011 and 2013, and who had also stayed in post until at least 2018.

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Innovation Letter Loyalty Ethics 83

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Andy Dalton, a 2011 TCU graduate who is quarterback and a member of the Cincinnati Bengals’ leadership team, is another fine example. The foundation is projected to touch the lives of 50,000 children by 2014. McCarter and his colleagues have helped transform Shreveport, La., Dalton played a part in restoring the team’s competitiveness.

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Motivation Supply Chain Workshop Learning-by-Doing 326

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. When he was brought in as CEO in August 2014, the company wasn’t in great shape. In many ways, working for Henrik Bunge is like working with a personal trainer.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Ethics Global business Retail'

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. How would it integrate into the culture of the larger organization? The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. In 2011, the Department of Commerce estimated that there were 27.5 Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. That involves testing and more sophisticated hiring practices.

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 86