Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

A Transpersonal Leader operates beyond their own ego and personal drivers and balances the needs of all the organization’s stakeholders. From this diverse and open thinking comes an agility to take the best actions, as areas of clarity emerge. The Transpersonal Touchstone Explored.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“Agile organizations treat disruption and adversity as opportunities.” In this environment of constant change, I often hear that we should be agile. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change. For those who haven’t read the book yet, what is agility? Navigate through Change.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Companies with greater diversity not only have higher retention, but they have higher revenues and operating results, as well as higher brand recognition in their marketplaces. Our focus on innovation in talent is what allows EY people to build meaningful careers with impact.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this captivating interview with The HR Digest , Josh Bersin opens up about the transformative milestones that have defined his remarkable career. As the CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, he anticipates monumental shifts in the HR landscape and urges organizations to embrace systemic HR and AI technologies.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The identity of an organization is shifting away from the CEO; elements of control are being willingly transferred to the employee, with empathetic and individualized attention being paid in order to increase engagement. In the emerging “Future-of-Work” settings, it is employee egos that matter, not the CEO's.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, and a never say die attitude that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. It is the ability to stay mentally focused on achieving the mission at hand, regardless of circumstances, that will help you take your organization to that next level.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ Carey Pellock: Since I joined Neustar in 2012, the company has undergone significant changes – most notably a transition from public to private company status and the arrival of a new CEO.

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Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Case in point, Jay Patel, CEO of Wintergreen Hospitality in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. In fact, according to the global staffing agency Ranstad, “many workers are seeking project or consultant-based work, with as much as 61 percent of the workforce choosing agile* careers by 2019” Greater use of Big Data in HR.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

In an in-depth conversation with The HR Digest, Lisa Chang, the Global Chief People Officer at The Coca-Cola Company, reflects on pivotal moments that shaped her career trajectory. However, within a year, the CEO offered me the position of head of HR. This dilemma forced me to evaluate my career path and what mattered most.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

This last year has only reinforced the importance of agile leaders and a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. What has been the most challenging decision you’ve ever had to take in your career? In hindsight, although it was a risky decision for me professionally, it ended up being the best decision of my career.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve begun to view this as the ability to hold two specific traits in balance: consistency and agility. On the other side of the spectrum, great leaders are agile. But just as consistency can become rigidity, agility can become a lack of focus when it isn’t tempered by consistency. Are you an agile visionary?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

While there is little debate that speed can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of speed can send a company (or a career) into a death spiral. Agility, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment and focus all lead to the creation of speed which results in a certainty of execution.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Co-opted Board Member Ms Janice Tai also talked about her journey towards becoming a Chartered Manager and how this accreditation has empowered her career advancement in her position at an international non-governmental organisation. Don’t miss Ann Francke OBE’s top five takeaways from the trip here.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

CEO John Stumpf set the tone. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. He can tell you what’s moving in the right direction—and where we’re getting loose and need to tighten up operations. Team members FEEL local leaders are genuinely committed to our agile transformation.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, a never say die attitude, and placing other’s interests above our own that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. A leader’s greatest responsibility is not for his/her own glory, but it is for the well being of those whose care has been entrusted to them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Perhaps no single factor has a greater impact on a company’s future — for better or worse — than the selection of a new CEO. Choosing a CEO is a high-stakes proposition, arguably the most important decision a board can make. The 21st-Century CEO. Insight Center. Sponsored by Cognizant.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Tim Magwood ( Leadership Coach & Musician ) I would say being an “agile learner” Things are moving fast in our VUCA world and we need more leaders who are learning WITH their people and helping to create deliberate learning organizations. I just read Multipliers this morning. Third, we listen to earn trust and respect.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

It became clear that John had succeeded in the past by doing what he knew and operating rather conservatively within his domain. With a heavy heart, BFC’s CEO removed his promising protégé from the role and redeployed him back in the US. It turned out to be the best move the CEO ever made.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. The team was structured to operate like a startup, with a particular focus on user research, feedback, and a commitment to lean operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Because operational managers are closer to the action, they have better insights into specific business challenges and customer pain points that can be addressed by new technologies. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S. It is not about you.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

The answer should not be “the CEO” or “the Chairman” or the equivalent. The vision outlines the essential principles that will guide the company’s detailed strategic planning, organizational design, operational priorities, and performance goals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? Our research shows that escalating issues to the CEO often backfires and can doom matrix projects.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption. Consider the case of Peter Voser, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

How do we reduce the performance drag of top-heavy management structures, replace "manager-management" with a more agile self- or peer-management, and create a vibrant social system in the process? It's a big-ticket shift that is already yielding big impact — from employee engagement to increased agility to real performance gains.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The new role required the former CEO of Sodexo India On-Site Services to work with a team of 15 executives from different nationalities and cultures, demanding a shift to a more inclusive leadership style. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” The CEO wants one thing, the engineering team another, and customers have their own opinions about feature priorities. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. As real space and cyberspace merge, do financial practices like budgeting provide value over their costs of time, money, effort, agility?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

Conventional performance reviews can also undermine a company’s agility and lead to missed opportunities. But we have come to embrace the concept of a “career of achievement” in addition to a “career of advancement.” It’s not quid pro quo, and it’s not easy to track and measure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier Maes, the CEO of Contect, wrapped up his year-beginning speech to all the company’s employees. Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. ” Rogier handed the microphone over to Henning Haas, the CEO of Contect’s Germany group, and came backstage where Derek was waiting.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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