Chris Brady

APRIL 2, 2010

WInner Announced After much deliberation, hair-pulling, name-calling, and the general good-natured slug-fest that is always required for such artistic pursuits, the exclusive selection committee has finally determined a winner for the latest Caption Contest, #2010.3. 

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Much to the chagrin of many but to the delight of most West Virginians, Byrd channeled over a billion dollars in federal projects to the state when he was chairman of the Senate Appropriations committee. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the.

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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. As a consequence, women hold only 22 percent of all U.S. computer software engineer and computer programmer positions.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

    Learn the rules behind committee assignments. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the. .    Set strategic goals and use them to guide critical early decisions such as budgeting and staffing.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It seems most trade associations do incidental mentoring via committee work but we want to do intentional mentoring by boomers to our young nextgen business members. We are going to survey members and invite them to a mentoring matchmaking program to launch in 2011 if interest is high enough.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The big question for many leaders as they look toward 2011 is: "How can my company be one of them?". Cesare Mainardi is Managing Director of Booz & Company's North American business and is a member of the firm's Executive Committee. He serves as chair of the firm's Knowledge and Marketing Advisory Council.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2011

Congressional committees as well as the Federal Communications Commission. Tweets that mention How to Discourage Digital Distractions: Conquer CyberOverload : StrategyDriven -- Topsy.com says: January 14, 2011 at 2:40 am [.] Businesses $650 billion per year in lost productivity. To read Joanne’s complete biography, click here.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

He advises at the Executive Committee and board levels, providing Big Picture ideas. Hank Moore is an internationally known business advisor, speaker and author. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

There were so many great entries that our selection committee decided to honor the top 3. Thanks for providing the rest of us with so many good laughs! As you may have guessed, choosing a winner was very, very difficult!  Dean Clouse wins 3rd place, BJ Jones gets 2nd place, and John Halambeck wins the overall. See their entries below.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2011

Congressional committees as well as the Federal Communications Commission. Is it harder to be creative when information is constantly coming at you from all directions? Through her consulting firm, Your Mind on Media , she speaks before business, professional, and educational organizations on productivity, creativity, and stress reduction.

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Information Creativity Environment Newsletter 58

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Create-Learning Facilitators Arrive and set-up - Create-Learning trouble-shoots and ensures all audio / visual equipment is operational - Companies planning committee and Create-Learning meet to go over logistics i.e. lunch, breaks, safety, order of events, what if situations, etc…. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

" Almost always, that "doing something" involves the growth of government through the creation of new agencies, bureaus, boards, committees, programs, expenditures, and the passing of new laws. One such reaction is to allow people in power to utilize that power to "do something."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

companies now have at least two women on their executive committees. As usual, we try to broaden the focus from the current buzz around corporate boards to the more relevant metric of the gender balance of executive committees. Less than a third (29%) of European companies have at least two women on their Executive Committees.

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Chris Brady

AUGUST 16, 2010

I think the copy should be donated to the USA Soccer World Cup Organizing Committee. (Or Posted by: Jeff & Laura Mann | August 21, 2010 at 02:12 AM Speaking as one of those few who did actually pick Spain and The Netherlands to be in the top 3 (I just had them reversed!), Or US Olympic Soccer, if that fails!)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How to price 8 million tickets in a way that allows equitable access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games.". Be proactive.

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Women in the LEAD

JANUARY 25, 2010

"  A review of the Forum was written by * Julia Harrison, Managing Partner of FD Blueprint (FD Blueprint is a leading EU public affairs company) and Member Founding Committee of Women’s Forum (Belgium) and published in the December 14 issue of the European Business Review.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The man was famous, an influential member of the selection committee. As a finalist, I thought my interviews were going well and I had an excellent chance of being selected. But my final interview held a surprise. He asked me a direct question about an issue that mattered a lot to him. I had done my homework, and I knew where he stood.

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Although the athletes will be the ones most remembered from these games, it is the Vancouver organizing committee led by John Furlong that deserves their own big fat gold medal for leadership. We could all take a page from John Furlong and the VANOC committee on how to lead in high pressure situations.

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Going green: start your own grassroots leadership revolution → Own the Podium: when stretch targets go bad Posted on February 23, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment There’s lots of hand wringing and apologizing going on from the Own the Podium committee, athletes and the media at large these days.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Hearings last month before the Senate’s banking committee and the House’s Financial Services Committee point to further dangerous cultural dynamics inside Wells Fargo. According to Stumpf’s testimony, a board committee became aware of the fraud “at a high level” back in 2011.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. The only way to work networking in is to schedule attendance to an event and go. If that is all you have time for, at least do that, and seek to exchange a few business cards when there. This leads to furthering your credentials and friendships.

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Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Bold pronouncements, a prominent position, gushing empathy, sitting on many committees for good causes, etc all feature regularly. Here’s a sample quote: “In most (although not all) cases, the identified serial bully is a female whose objective is to demonstrate to the world what a wonderful, kind, caring, compassionate person she is.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

The DOJ opposed the 2011 merger that AT&T and T-Mobile wanted because it feared that the merger would threaten the role of T-Mobile as a disruptive “ un-carrier ” in the telecom industry. This kind of competition is generally thought of as a good thing for consumers, though, of course, not for the incumbents who are deposed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

But given that he's been president for the last 16 years, he is responsible for the culture that is now under question and such protestations should only encourage the sponsors to insist that the investigation be independent of the FIFA executive committee and free to announce publicly if it is being impeded in its investigation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

This fictional story is inspired by "The Art of Piloting New Initiatives" by Rhoda Davidson and Bettina Büchel in the Fall 2011 MIT Sloan Management Review. We've been co-running the steering committee for this innovation project for almost six months now. Please contribute by offering solutions and insights from your own experience.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Such determination is subject to ratification by (and for an award to the CEO would be made by) the [Board's] Compensation & Management Development Committee. Ina Drew was in the bank's High Five in the proxy statement, with more than $15 million in total comp in 2010 and 2011 (cash, bonus, stock awards).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As of 2011, organizations must have received at least Silver Awards to qualify for National Institute for Health Research Funding. This lesson can be applied more broadly, including to systematizing search processes, appointment of physicians to committees, and nomination for leadership roles and increased responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

Tough decisions such as which clients to serve and which not; which partners are creating value and which are not; and where to focus in terms of practice expertise and geography are nearly impossible to make by committee. You could forgive them for a reasonable degree of complacency.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2015

As of 2011, only 26% of teens were employed. Not only does this leave little time for the kind of work their parents did after school, those part-time jobs to most admissions committees simply aren’t impressive enough. The abysmal job market for teens is forcing many of them to think differently about work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. Dimon likely would not have approved of the bets if he had known they were occurring.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies. Half of 3M's executive committee comes from outside America. Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences.

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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. For example, American Express created its Accelerated Leadership Development program, in 2011. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

And, while LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games) had great success in achieving its target of £700m in sponsorship revenues, it's also true that many brands didn't pay the asking price — even those that were keen to be persuaded — because they couldn't make a robust enough business case.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2011

I’m wondering if you’d chair a committee to explore both sides of this issue and then come back and present a case for each?” For example, during a meeting at which he strongly opposed an idea I favored, my response was, “Milton, I know that your heart is in doing what’s best for this organization. I miss him.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. The compensation committee should push for clearer links between pay and performance for IT-related activity (which ultimately is nearly everything most firms do). There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Cesare Mainardi is managing director of Booz & Company’s North American business and a member of the firm’s executive committee. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. He works with global Fortune 500 companies to help them achieve major business transformations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

I've worked closely with The Conference Board , the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy , and Students in Free Enterprise. He is the co-author, with Mette Norgaard, of the upcoming Touchpoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments (Jossey-Bass, May 2011).

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