Surviving Leadership

JUNE 29, 2017

Listen, I’m a big fan of being intentional about the culture you’re allowing to develop in your workplace. Whether or not you personally like Southwest Airlines (and I love them, so there), you can’t argue with their success in a tough industry. It breeds innovation. It pushes the company forward.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Study some of the most interesting and diverse group of companies such as Google, Twinings, Dropbox and even Wimbledon and you end up with fascinating stories, case studies, and research useful to every brand. You have many provocative questions and prompts to spur excellent conversations in leadership teams. Ideas to Grow Your Brand.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 12, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Taming the Inner Mule Facing the Blank Wall → December 12, 2010 · 8:24 pm ↓ Jump to Comments Servant Leadership…Creating an Environment of Service A lot is being said about the leader as “servant”. Okay then, herein may lie a problem.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Two diverse experiences shaped up this post and lessons learned from these experiences are still very relevant. March 2009: Personal Leadership - It shines in difficult times We are all leaders - but our education, upbringing and organization structures suppresses our leadership traits. Quality is Happiness.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Joel Barker says you can innovate faster, cheaper and with less risk by developing innovations at the verge. For Southwest Airlines, it was about how they could maintain the current schedule with fewer planes. Innovate quickly. To do this, combine two separate things to create a totally new offer that addresses an unmet need.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, great leadership looks the same wherever you are. They also energize their employees by ensuring that their expectations about three overarching elements of work — the nature of their role , the work environment , and their professional development (RED) — are in line with the organization's purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Does your workplace reflect a relative balance of males and females in leadership positions? A healthy range of diversity in terms of age, skin color, religious conviction, culture, or/and sexual orientation? Differences — Not Just Diversity. Leadership & Managing People Book. Sadly, the Goffees have no printer.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Recently, my colleagues and I interviewed dozens of these higher-ambition CEOs , all of whom taught us a valuable lesson: integrity is at the heart of great leadership. And in organizational behavior courses, students learn that motivating employees and developing teamwork is the measure of successful leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

These developments unraveled the projected confidence of leading physicians and officials of the Center for Disease Control that the disease was a low-risk threat to our country with its advanced medical systems. Creating such a cross-boundary community will call for a different kind of leadership than we have seen thus far.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 11, 2009

→ May 12, 2009 · 12:55 am ↓ Jump to Comments Taking Charge: When Not to Delegate In leadership, one of the things we are always being reminded of is the importance of delegation, and with good reason. Let’s face it, everyone likes to be popular but leadership is not about popularity. What comes to mind for you?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Companies were split into divisions, each with their own leadership. Southwest’s mission of being the low-cost airline drives everything it does, from the planes it buys to the routes it competes on. Frank and honest leadership is usually enough. These days, every enterprise needs to develop a culture of change.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The role exists in B2B and B2C firms as diverse as Allstate, Dunkin' Brands, USAA, Philips Electronics, FedEx, the Cleveland Clinic, and SAP. Sometimes it's new leadership that spurs action, other times efforts percolating within companies capture executives' attention. Consider one example.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2011

To maintain high worker morale, productivity, and loyalty in such a diverse and changing conditions, IBM has placed new emphasis on the "resources" component of HR in four directions. To maintain its leadership position, the company has been willing to experiment with bold new methods.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Escaping that rut and rethinking who gets a seat at the table just might be the most urgent leadership imperative of our day. Jim Whitehurst got a short course in doing just that when he arrived as CEO of the rough-and tumble Red Hat from his post as COO of the rather more buttoned-up Delta Airlines four years ago. The effect?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Harvard Business School Press (2011) Valuable lessons from 36 CEOs who create simultaneously value that has both economic and social impact The CEOs featured in this book agreed to participate (..)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And they carefully manage leadership transitions, so nothing is lost along the way. As Eton explained , “We actively search for new and different types of students, to increase the richness and diversity of our community. ” They also make sure they aren’t just recycling old ideas. Stable stewardship.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Shoplifting costs American business $10 billion per year.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. Business development. Going to the government and asking for bailout loans is quite chancy, as the airlines have learned recently. This industrial development program carried the theme, “You Can Believe/Puede Creer.”

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

You’ll know as you read this interview – the wealth of leadership wisdom, strategic foresight, and transformative insights shared by Norm Smallwood—a luminary shaping tomorrow’s leadership landscape–will completely reframe how you look at the modern workplace! We labeled these foundational competencies the “leadership code”.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Others want to attract and retain diverse talent. This week, Canada announced it would tax carbon nationally by 2018.

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