Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

And as assembly-line technology improved, so too did its speed, which soon became a source of great stress. That’s why Fortune ’s editors named it as the ultimate in their 2012 book The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time. You don’t have to be a corporate CEO to benefit from Ford’s example. The workers could hardly keep up.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Perhaps two of the biggest barriers today to establishing and perpetuating an enduring corporate culture are: excessive CEO and executive compensation packages, reflective of greed and a short-term mindset; and. They understood the impact that a strong, adaptive corporate culture has on organizational performance, the true mark of leadership.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

And while these figures represent US households, the percentages are being exported due to technology driven globalization. In 2012, 18 of the Fortune 500 companies will have women CEOs at the helm. For example, for the first time ever, IBM chose a woman CEO, Virginia “Ginni” Rometty. Increasingly, it’s women.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

This is CEO Shigetaka Komari's own story of why Fujifilm succeeded where Eastman Kodak failed with hard-won lessons for managers and employees everywhere. Kodak's technology was also far ahead of Fujifilm's. In 2012, Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy. Can't Get Enough Leadership. The difference was not just in sales.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Am I happy in the CEO afterlife? I finished my 9 month assignment in the spring of 2012 and I’m back in the CEO afterlife. I expected to be out of touch with technology and this was glaringly obvious. Leadership bell human capital retirement' I’m busy pursuing other dreams that are inspirational and meaningful.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

While it is the only location implicated in the widespread contamination in 2012, ex-employees of Ameridose, a drug-manufacturing organization that has some of the same owners of the NECC, have come forward with some shocking claims. And 37 people would still be alive.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 4, 2012

Leadership is fast resembling the famous Mark Twain quote about the weather – everybody’s always talking about it but nobody does anything about it. Based on their ongoing research, The Conference Board of Canada concludes, “Building leadership capacity has been a top priority for several years, at least on paper.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Moreover, the 2012 Accenture Global Consumer Pulse Research Study found that 63 percent of consumers said the quality of customer service received is the most important factor when choosing a brand. He recommends incorporating more technology, such as social media engagement and mobile communications, to achieve this goal.

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following blog post is part 3 of a 3-part series , which is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir (CVO, CEO of ExactHire and Human Capital Concepts) at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. or possibly, “I didn’t dictate the style of the leaders who led me! I fell in line and paid my dues.”

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company. If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? Guest post by John Hunter. Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 27, 2014

The art of developing leaders will evolve with the technology that connects people through both wired and wireless networks. Use “push” technology to help leaders change. “Push” technology can give leaders an ongoing stream of reminders and ideas for change. by Marshall Goldsmith. This seldom works.

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Deming Institute

MAY 26, 2016

Ian Bradbury, President and CEO of Peaker Services, Inc. Langford, President & CEO, Langford International. Kentaro Toyama, Associate Professor, University of Michigan – School of Information and Author of ”Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology”. Kevin Cahill, Executive Director of The W.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In the 1980s, I appeared on a videotape that was widely distributed as part of a leadership development course for IBM managers. All I had to do was look at the path of technological innovation and make a reasonable guess. After losing billions of dollars, the IBM board woke up and decided to get new leadership. 1-858-759-0950.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So with apologies to those who don't share this passion, I present to you the September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival, NFL Kick-off Edition. I asked each leadership blogger to give me their favorite NFL team. The Patriots seem to be the leadership blogger's team of choice. New York Jets. Dallas Cowboys.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

How much do CEOs actually matter? Although such sentiments may not apply to most CEOs, even the anonymous CEO still benefits from the impulse: Most CEOs worldwide earn between 50 and 100 times more than the average worker. The CEO-to-worker pay ratio in America is even bigger, at 350:1.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

For CEOs who are trying to decide whether participating in social media is worth their time, there's new research that could help tip the balance. Yet among Fortune 500 CEOs, the report says, only 7.6% The new report from CEO.com and business intelligence firm DOMO. The new report from CEO.com and business intelligence firm DOMO.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. Consider George, a CEO of a large building-engineering firm in Silicon Valley. Bad news, right? What does happiness mean?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

When it comes to social media, today’s CEOs have made a remarkable transition over the past five years. We audited a range of sites and platforms to see how CEOs are engaging socially and compared these results to its 2010 and 2012 findings. WANTED: #CEO for our iconic british brand.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2012

They spoke over CEOs, media, newspapers, government, lobbyists, and politicians. Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. If Bezos measured the ROI at Amazon in the first five years, he would have quit. Same with Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Last week, Joann Lublin reported in The Wall Street Journal that more CEO jobs are going to internal candidates. According to her story, a survey by executive-search firm Spencer Stuart found that about four out of five S&P 500 companies that chose a new CEO last year promoted insiders. That is good news for the companies involved.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

I am making the case for CMOs and CEOs to recognize the necessity of their own direct and passionate involvement as chief brand custodians. With the exception of niche, specialty, and some consumer technology markets, I see less and less of this in big business. This company lost $5 billion in 2012 and hasn’t made a profit since 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. The new CEO, John Flannery, is focused primarily on cutting costs. Other senior executives have left as well.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Of course, success of individual Hidden Champions is based on their leadership and strategy. The most important difference is the continuity of the leadership. Scientific competencies also play an important role.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. Perhaps by 2012 it was already too late. That makes sense.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. “Our instructors were teaching better, and our students were learning better,” Webb noted in The Red Circle , his 2012 SEAL memoir.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

So far, 2012 has been another banner year for the 'tyranny of success' as once great companies slide ever closer to the abyss. How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise? This didn't work well.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

No one has done more to spotlight the contrast than Laurence Fink, the CEO of BlackRock. trillion in holdings, Fink in February sent a letter to the CEOs of all S&P 500 companies that essentially cut the Gordian knot of short-termism. For CEOs, creating and communicating long-term growth strategy is easier said than done.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If If we see a country where reward outweighs the risk, we want to invest,” CEO Jeff Immelt says in Success in Africa.

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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. ” Hiring for Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? A 2012 survey of board practices reported that almost none of the large-cap companies had a director under the age of 40. Can we use the possibilities of these new digital technologies to drive innovation? Not likely.

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