Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. I believe the answer is yes. I also believe companies didn’t learn much from Kodak’s example.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 2, 2012

At my last company, where I was responsible for leadership development and succession planning, I once received a phone call on a Friday afternoon from one of my favorite managers. For organizations, it’s a way to invest in the development of their high potential managers before it’s too late. So why should we care?

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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. Posts are organized by NFL team conferences and divisions. Miami Dolphins. Denver Broncos. Dallas Cowboys.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Amy Cuddy – She is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history. Goldsmith was recognized as the#1 Leadership Thinker in the World and the top 5 Management Thinker in 2015, as well as one of the top ten Most-Influential Business Thinkers in the World.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

After I left Kodak, as a marketing specialist, to take a new leadership position in another industry in 1973, Fujifilm's technology was catching up with Kodak's and by the 1980s Fujifilm had technically surpassed Kodak in nearly all varieties of film. The photographic film market shrank at the rate of twenty to thirty percent a year.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The Business of Belief : How the World''s Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs and Other Leaders Get Us to Believe by Tom Asacker In The Business of Belief , Tom Asacker describes the job of leadership from the perspective of beliefs—yours and theirs. Best Leadership Books of 2011.

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Books Leadership Blog Learning-by-Doing 285

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

She is an author, speaker, and leadership development consultant whose most recent book is The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work , co-authored with Julie Johnson. To learn more about the Top Picks in business reading from strategy+business, check out their article Best Business Books 2012.

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Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Participative 260

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 4, 2013

Guest post from Elizabeth Freedman (originally published 12/6/2012 on the Bates Communication blog). Elizabeth is one of the instructors in our upcoming UNH Woman''s Leadership Development program. In my work as an executive coach, I meet at least once a month with each of my coaching clients.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This was the focus of HCI’s 2012 Employee Engagement Conference where business leaders from NIKE, Warner Bros. Specifically, how do we go about fostering an engaged workforce when we have fewer resources, more competition, and need to accomplish more in less time. It’s a requirement.”

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Finally, it has forced me to think about and clearly articulate answers to the excellent questions that Maddy had developed. If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. What does that even mean?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2011

That includes individual development goals. In a business context, individual development goals should be closely aligned with your short and long term job responsibilities. Each and every person’s situation is different, so there is no one-size-fits-all development plan. Career-wise, this is the granddaddy of development moves.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

This notion kind of struck me while I was watching a movie about Charles Darwin who had, and developed, one of the world’s biggest ideas, one that, even now, creates much spirited conversation. Now, more than ever, businesses are having to rethink their product and how they deliver to market. Originally posted in November 2012.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

She is a speaker, leadership development consultant, and co-author of “ The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work ”. This is an abridged piece from strategy+business’s Best Business Books 2013 featuring selections on a number of topics including strategy, marketing, innovation, and organizational culture.

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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. Within the next 20 years there will be millions of brilliant, highly educated knowledge workers flooding the global job market. They are grateful for the chance to grow and to develop their skills.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2014

Their markets did not affect each other that much and so they operated in parallel without much worry about the impact they made on each other. Developing this kind of tolerance is important. Note: This post was originally published in May, 2012. It used to work. The business world was the land of bottom lines.

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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. Experience difficulties while searching for high-quality leadership development tools. So, e-coaches must help leaders find relevant content, and development tools that have a real impact.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2012

actions business leaders should take now to maximize their success in the current market environment. He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. He has advised two U.S.

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Strategic Planning Tactics Competitive Advantage Article 50

Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2012

Almost nine in 10 CEOs agree that tapping female talent is important to "getting the best brains" and competing in markets where women now make most of the purchasing decisions, the McKinsey study says. Rethinking Leadership. Sources: The Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2012 and The New Yorker, February 14, 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders.

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In my previous two posts from this series, I discussed how changing demographics, views on the nature of work and the workplace, and rapid advances in technology have converged to create intense competition for talent in today’s job market. 50’s – 60’s (The Military Commander) Organizations were run from top-down.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Constraint Talent Management 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. ” They had developed inside the company and therefore knew the organization and its norms as well as the people and their capabilities — but they had also retained a strong streak of objectivity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 29, 2012

So here are the posts that you, (judging from your visits and comments), seemed to have enjoyed the most in 2012. As a result, leadership roles in these places are ever in danger of being populated by people who privately lack the interest or desire to develop the skill required to lead others effectively. Lives are lost.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. As Mary Cranston, former CEO and Chairman of Pillsbury, LLP said in an interview , “Being on that board really helped me develop as a CEO because I had another CEO to watch.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

First it extended relocation support to spouses, offering such services as guidance in navigating, and entrée into networks in, the local job market. The success of the Dual Career Network is reflected in its growth from enabling 350 spouses to find suitable positions in seven companies in 2011 to about 700 working in more than 30 in 2012.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. This is a primer for executives and the heirs apparent to company leadership. Business development. Mid-Level Sellers (consumer services, multi-level marketing, retailers, vendors).

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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it. The course that I created in 2005, Authentic Leadership Development (ALD), has become one of the most popular elective MBA courses, thanks to my HBS colleagues who are currently teaching it.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them. Six years ago, David and Donna Allman approached Opportunity with an idea that fell outside our traditional microfinance model: to build a Community Economic Development (CED) program in Nicaragua.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Business development. There is the need to develop better information to help management make better decisions. Branch 4: Training for diversity, team building, professional education and development, motivational and executive development-mentoring. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Running the business.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Business development. Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Certain forces in the recording industry have announced intentions to cease production of compact discs and convert their music marketing to digital downloads. Business development. In 1877, Thomas Edison introduced the cylinder, developed originally for business office use. by Hank Moore. Running the business. The Big Picture.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. Self-promotional brochures.

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Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

Gallup reported in two large-scale studies in 2012 that only 30% of U.S. Worse, over the past 12 years these low numbers have barely budged, meaning that the vast majority of employees worldwide are failing to develop and contribute at work. Developing Mindful Leaders for the C-Suite. and worldwide. Nothing fixes the wrong pick.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Over the last few years, its big new product lines — including a healthy Veg Pot and its This Water line — have both come from ideas conceived and developed by mid-level employees. Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market.

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