Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This book provides readers a game plan for organizations to create a deep and effective leadership bench. Yet most take a haphazard or inconsistent approach to leadership development. Mark has written other insightful leadership books, including The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do. Mark Miller Leads. Other Resources.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Recently I was helping run workshops on leadership at Texas Christian University (TCU), a university of just under 10,000 students based in Fort Worth, Texas. Andy Dalton, a 2011 TCU graduate who is quarterback and a member of the Cincinnati Bengals’ leadership team, is another fine example.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 3, 2017

Toyota Post Record Profit: Splits $15 million in Pay and Bonus for top 21 Executives (2014). One factor at a time (OFAT) Versus Factorial Designs (2011). Managers Are Not Non-Leaders: Managers Need to Practice Things We Classify as Leadership Traits (2013) *. Deming and Software Development (2014) *.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 11, 2017

The Answers From Leadership Podcast The guest for episode 29 of the Answers From Leadership podcast is Michael Teoh. Ltd, co-curated TEDxKL and TEDxYouth from 2009-2014, and was appointed as a Global Advisor for Microsoft’s YouthSpark Initiative. Listen To The Answers From Leadership Podcast. .

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 13, 2014

Companies with more women in leadership posts simply perform better. Fortune 500 firms with the most female board members outperform those with the least by 26% on return on invested capital and 16% on return on sales, according to a 2011 Catalyst study. . s global women’s leadership council, created in 2009, is now about 40% male.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 18, 2016

Edelman’s 2014 Trust Barometer found that 84 percent of respondents believe that business can pursue its own interests while doing good work for society. Life insurance sales and sales of plans in teachers’ retirement programs – two of our core business lines – have more than doubled between 2011 and 2015.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Rick Lindquist Millennial Rick Lindquist is making his mark in the business world and enjoying the success of his co-authored 2014 bestseller book, The End of Employer-Provided Health Insurance. He was promoted to Director of Sales in 2009 and took over as President in 2011. What's your favorite book about leadership and why?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

MOXIE : The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership by John Baldoni Moxie is full of great stories and examples making it immediately relatable and practical. Hard Times : Leadership in America by Barbara Kellerman Barbara Kellerman turns her attention to the often overlooked context in which we lead. Best Leadership Books of 2012.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 21, 2016

Twitter has given executives $2,000,000,000 in just stock based compensation from 2011 through 2015. Here is a graphic from, It’s Twitter’s birthday, and its executives are getting huge stock-based gifts , showing the massive executive give-away at Twitter. Twitter’s revenue for those 4 years was only $4,709,000,000. of revenue.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Many of the provisions of the sweeping health-care bill passed by the House of Representatives in March won’t kick in until 2014, however these provisions spell big changes for small businesses. Recent healthcare reform is also adding to economic uncertainty for small businesses.

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Chris Brady

AUGUST 16, 2010

Then watching another thirty two countries compete in 2014-Brazil for the final. and a Winner Announced Blog powered by TypePad Member since 09/2007 Author Chris Bradys Leadership Blog Chris Bradys Home Page Chris Bradys Rascal Tweets Chris Bradys FaceBook Chris Bradys YouTube Chris Bradys Fan Page-Rascal Nation Chris Brady on LinkedIn

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General Leadership

OCTOBER 20, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! 05 March 2014. “It The post Time Machine Tuesday: Leading Yourself Well, First appeared first on General Leadership. Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

How to be Happy at Work Business Insider, July 2014. Three Ways to Actually Engage Your Employees HBR Blog Network, June 2014. Thirteen Signs of a Disengaged Employee (Infographic) Entrepreneur, June 2014. Focusing on Employee Engagement: How to Measure it and Improve It UNC: Kenan-Flaglar Business School, 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S., avoided the second recession and continued its recovery. What went wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

By focusing on the top management of a company – people who have worked their way to the top and have executive responsibility for its results – the report offers a clear picture of the attitudes and environments that companies have built – or haven’t – to gender balance their leadership teams. However, this is better than the 20% in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

In contrast to “transformational” and “authentic” leadership, which has been criticized for being fuzzy and wishy-washy , “fitness leadership,” as we refer to it, offers a more concrete approach. When he was brought in as CEO in August 2014, the company wasn’t in great shape.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Between 1997 and 2014, the number of women-owned businesses in the U.S. They are starting an estimated 1,288 companies each day, up from 602 in 2011-12. The women who make it to leadership roles perform better than their male peers , by several metrics. rose by 68 percent. They are starting businesses twice as fast as men.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. Nike halved the size of its digital unit in 2014 by discontinuing its Nike+ Fuelband activity tracker and some other investments. Yagi Studios/Getty Images. Lego recently defunded its Digital Designer virtual building program.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. As any manager knows, a generic-sounding list of values won’t move the culture needle unless leadership brings it to life.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

According to the annual 2014 Youth Entrepreneurship Study conducted by YEC and Buzz Marketing Group, 81 percent of non-self-employed individuals believe they will be a business owner or self-employed at some point because of the new economy. And who creates more value than entrepreneurs? At the same time, entrepreneurship in the U.S.

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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. Whether they can do it this time depends on the strength of their leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In early 2014, American cosmetics and skincare products powerhouse Revlon announced that it would pull out of China completely. One option is for multinational companies to go flat out for market leadership in China; that is, try to be either No. Go for Broke. 2 in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led. In doing so, activist investors are not just benefitting from a company’s leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. Their missions’ success rests on their ability to stay resilient and perform effectively in adverse circumstances.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2015

The project certainly makes sense when first sanctioned by leadership. In a December 2014 HBR article , we argued that these kinds of zombie amnesties are a vital component of a systematic approach to innovation. Every project went under the proverbial microscope. So how could a zombie project possibly exist? Provide closure.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W. In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

They chose Fremont because it was in the thick of the market changes and had outstanding physician leadership. These teams began redesigning the workflow and offices in late 2011. These changes led PAMF to be rated by Consumer Reports in 2014 as one of the best medical groups in the very competitive San Francisco Bay area.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. The two managers secured buy-in from top BMW R&D executives to launch such a unit, and they received top-management approval for the unit in July 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control. Although he didn’t have a U.S.

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The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

With the new year coming, I asked myself … what wisdom could I provide to help leaders change their game in 2014? While there are many classic leadership books that are still relevant today – like Good to Great and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – and a flooded market of other business books , I wanted to share ….

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2011, the Department of Commerce estimated that there were 27.5 Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. However, during an economic expansion, the number of new businesses would outnumber the closures. Many people may not realize how many small businesses there are in the country. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. This was a $1.2 Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. of Apple’s buybacks reported thus far for fiscal 2014. That’s just 2.1%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. Until 2014, Uber had fewer than 500 employees; today their headcount is around 3,000 people. A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5 Unicorns are: Small in size.

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