Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

If you've spent any amount of time in executive retreats or leadership off-sites, you've probably been asked to participate in a familiar evaluation of your career and impact. BMW falls into this camp, maybe Ritz-Carlton and Emirates Airlines. Take twenty minutes," a facilitator will say, "and write your professional obituary.

Company 10

Company Brand Banking Long-term 10

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 11, 2009

Share this: 9 Comments Filed under Leadership Values , Leading Change , motivating & Inspiring Tagged as courage , crisis managment , delegation , managment , Maple Leaf Foods. The team is working as an extension o the manager’s authority and responsibility. There are no doubt countless others. Or, when G.E.

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Delegation Crisis Blog McCarthy 40

Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

We view control over our time as more important than “lots of money in the bank” as a sign of success. Most executives have been taught since early in their careers that they can never, under any circumstances, appear to not have all the answers. Ed Bastian of Delta Airlines comes to mind. We want greater self-sufficiency.

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Brand Storytelling Trends Content 121

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And they carefully manage leadership transitions, so nothing is lost along the way. As the RCA explained, “We don’t want too many “career academics,” who only work with us. And all the Centennials carefully work out what to take on and how to manage it, so standards don’t slip. Disruptive experts.

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Organization Learning-by-Doing Open-book McKinsey 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has spent his career focusing on the ways in which we get things right , or could at least learn to. At times this belief has led the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin into pretty fierce debates with his intellectual opponents. But he feeds you.

Uncertainty 9

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

One bank lost more money in a few weeks than it had accumulated over the previous century. As Peter Drucker put it, “culture eats strategy over breakfast” Just take a look at Southwest Airlines, the company which saw the greatest value expansion in the S&P 500 between 1971 and 2001. Building a Feedback-Rich Culture.

Emotional Intelligence 9

Emotional Intelligence GDP McKinsey Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

People who are both in demand by their colleagues and are seen as important sources of information at work have the lowest engagement and career satisfaction scores, as represented by the smaller bubbles toward the top right of this chart. There’s a pattern when it comes to who owns the top banks in the U.S.

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Class Airlines Health Care Management 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

One of the great innovations in business, which has held sway since 1976, is the idea that professional managers should have an owner’s mindset—that is, they should treat their company’s money as if it were their own. But there is a problem with the owner’s mindset.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Budgeting Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ Congressional Hearings.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57