CO2

AUGUST 17, 2010

Interview with Charlie Firestone and Vivian who is the CEO of NPR. Vivian Schiller CEO of NPR at the Aspen Institute 2010 gives insights into the importance of New Literacy. We are faced with a tsunami of information. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc., Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Schiller CEO Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 98

Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

HP announced Whitman’s appointment on September 22, 2011 but given the public comments, customers seem to think it’s a bad choice. It’s my stance that HP usually leaps before it looks and I am not sure that I am sold on Whitman as the new CEO. HP Has a Poor Track Record in Past CEO Selection. So let’s look.

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Hotels Wireless CEO Long-term 150

In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 14, 2012

I could talk about their brands, their global clout, their sales growth or their stock market value. Once taken, they co-operatively move forward toward the common goal. 2011 sales were $82 billion. The mystical factor that distinguishes P&G from everyone else is people. They have the ability to disagree and freely do so.

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Proposal Advertising Brand Marketing 260

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Eric Shinseki, former Army Chief of Staff, Alan Mulally, CEO of the Ford Motor Company, and Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts. Among the many things that make leadership more challenging today is the global market in which leaders must compete.

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Blog Leadership Brand Media 292

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Six Disciplines 1:1 Executive Coaching - Is Now Open for Enrollment for 2011. If any (or all) of these seem too familiar, we have good news: we’ve just opened the doors for enrollment to Six Disciplines 1:1 Executive Coaching – proven to get the results you need to be a more effective executive in 2011.

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Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

N2 is a proud member of Squidoo Blog Write for CEOs Debbie Weil offer a great service to CEOs and senior executives that want to learn how to blog. Squidoo Squidoo is an online social network that gives members the ability to create their own “lenses” (microsites) that can be used as a communication platform.

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Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

My engagements with CEOs often focus on helping them to embrace change through disruptive innovation. While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities.

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

 Numerous forecasting models are based off economic indicators like the Consumer Confidence Index and it is critical that you follow and understand how these leading indicators relate to your organization's operations.  However, The Conference Board does much more than just report on leading economic indicators.

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Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Maybe so, but I see it as part of a bigger, more formidable trend that has vast implications for the future of almost every business: what I call the global tilt. The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S., percent, and named it a global leader in consumer electronics.

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. CEOs of large groups are keen to design, implement and support mentoring programs for women because they know very well the benefits they get from them.

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Mentor GDP Education Engineering 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since early 2015, when he began working with Sodexo’s executive committee as the global services firm’s chief transformation officer, Sunil Nayak has undergone his own leadership transformation. Nayak is describing a set of competencies that employees must master if they are to become leaders on the global stage.

Globalization 8

Globalization Emotional Intelligence Marketing Skills 8

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian. by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. Main menu Home.

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Brand CEO Stage-Gate SWOT 168

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Over the past few years, we've all become much more aware of the forces that will powerfully shape global society over the next decade. It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. So in one sense, Polman is only being a good businessman.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Nokia's recent burning platform travails serve as an object lesson to companies trying to navigate a rapidly-changing global economy. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Companies have become much more likely to dismiss their chief executive officers over the last several years because of a scandal or improper conduct by the CEO or other employees — including fraud, bribery, insider trading, inflated resumes, and sexual indiscretions. From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9%

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Ethics CEO Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I visited his church on numerous occasions.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 322

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Maybe so, but I see it as part of a bigger, more formidable trend that has vast implications for the future of almost every business: what I call the global tilt. The global tilt is an irreversible shift of economic power from North to South: from the U.S., percent, and named it a global leader in consumer electronics.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About the Authors Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership , is a Senior Operating Executive at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; one of the largest and most successful private-equity firms in the United States. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

CO2

JULY 20, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Entrepreneur Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Taylorism 88

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Flat organizational structures, globalization, and employees’ desire to stretch themselves and learn new skills necessitate that you have healthy relationships. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Leadership Blog Open-book Greenleaf 221

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Meanwhile behemoths such as McKinsey and BCG, to maintain their above-industry-average growth rates and keep their global office networks humming, have broadened what they do and moved down the food chain. Or, sometimes related, they have a new CEO with a mandate to shake things up and make her mark.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. What are you passionate about? What drives your economic engine? That is something that others can get behind.

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. What are you passionate about? What drives your economic engine? That is something that others can get behind.

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 52

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The Forces of global change can render professional skill sets obsolete almost overnight. Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. The Debrief Imperative is a culmination of over a decade of teaching and practice in Global 1000 organizations. But how is this done?

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 64

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

Eight companies (including IBM, Pepsico, Lockheed Martin and General Motors) have a woman CEO. Only 35% are in line or operational roles – and there has been no significant change in these percentages over the last three years. However, this is better than the 20% in 2011. None have a female CEO. Gender Global business'

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Execution Committee Balanced Scorecard Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer. Nokia did have resources to develop a new operating system, but chose to stick with Symbian. Nokia launched the OVI Store globally in May 2009. As a result, Nokia became less and less able to create new value.

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Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 13

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As a CEO when you start to lower the chinning bar by allowing for the hiring of someone based more on their diversity segment than their talent you are enabling the demise of your enterprise. I don’t mean to downplay culture, as a diverse corporate culture is something to be strived for, but only if quality is not sacrificed.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 296

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

In 2012 the rise in consumer activism and mobility, the Occupy movement, 24-hour accountability (thanks to social media), and global resource depletion will force every enterprise, large and small, to make CSR a focal point. in operating income, while companies with lower levels declined 32.7% (Towers Watson).

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Supply Chain Company Strategic Planning Bottom-up 16

Women in the LEAD

AUGUST 25, 2009

One woman who helped me truly understand my power as a leader is Frances Hesselbein , Chairman of the Board of Governors,  Leader to Leader Institute , Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA   Initially, I only knew her through videos and books. I highly recommend it.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Press Release Letter 78

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

It is becoming routine for self-employed doctors, lawyers, engineers, copy writers, clothing line designers and other creative professionals to be globally mobile. Why could he not use the assembly line method used by the burger company to maximize the number of operations every surgeon performs? We live in a complex world.

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Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

August 2011 HBR. While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

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Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

London-based HSBC, arguably the world's most global bank, recently described speculation that it was planning to shift its headquarters from London to Hong Kong as "presumptuous." After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations. What is so special about where a global organization headquarters itself?

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S. automobile industry.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8