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.

Committee 34

Committee Motivation Blog Godin 34

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.

Absenteeism 34

Absenteeism Handbook Stress Godin 34

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

During an economic crisis, the exaggerated decline in orders can be especially damaging to upstream suppliers that have high fixed costs tied to production assets. Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S. Senate Banking Committee to save his competitors.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

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.

Creativity 8

Creativity Consensus Business Model Committee 8

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. housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis.

Banking 9

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

Two recently released JP Morgan Chase (JPM) reports on the causes of the "London Whale" trading losses raise important questions about whether financial service firms can exorcise the spectral issues which were so central to the financial crisis. The Board and the Risk Policy Committee. Well, no duh.

Report 8

Report CIO Crisis Committee 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

operation and then over to Japan where they were reviewed by a special committee – which would then have to communicate back to the U.S. Toyota’s structure slowed down decision making and the company’s ability to effectively respond to the recall crisis. For example, some of Toyota’s former U.S. In fact, they are quite fragile.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Sometimes it takes a major crisis in one’s life to sort of see the light, if you will. In 2011, Shann Ferch and I produced “The Spirit of Servant-Leadership,” which included a foreword by Peter Block. We see examples in life and literature of people who start out one way and end up another way.

Greenleaf 125

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Sometimes it takes a major crisis in one’s life to sort of see the light, if you will. In 2011, Shann Ferch and I produced “The Spirit of Servant-Leadership,” which included a foreword by Peter Block. We see examples in life and literature of people who start out one way and end up another way.

Greenleaf 100

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

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.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power."

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13

Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2011

The social implications are significant, from no friends to visit people in the hospital, weakened bonds during crisis, fewer watchdogs to deter neighborhood crime, and a lack of community. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. And the number who say they have no one to discuss important matters with has doubled to one in four.

Media 50

Media Technology Committee Open-book 50

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

The bad news is that lots of leaders or companies are in crisis mode when they call for a consultant or coach, so they don’t really have the time necessary to really get to know the person they are hiring. Clearly, word of mouth is the best recommendation and I always tell people to trust their gut.

Blog 298

Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 298

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Deficits started ballooning again, and really blew up after the financial crisis of 2008. And there's the Budget Control Act of 2011. The answer would generally seem to be, yeah, in the middle of a once-in-80-years economic crisis, we'd be better off without any limits on the federal government's ability to spend more than it takes in.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

And the Business Roundtable , picking up where it left off in the summer of 2011, has continued its ineffectual pleas for the president and Congress to find a solution to the deficit , while failing to offer a single concrete solution. This situation began to change in the 1970s.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Politics 8