Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 1, 2013

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to converse with Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. They kept solving those unsolvable problems,” Armstrong added, “until one day, there I was—walking the lunar surface.”. Making the Impossible Possible. And here we are, a little over fifty years later.

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leaderCommunicator

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Number 3: AOL CEO Fires Employee During Call Intended to Boost Morale. In August, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong fired an employee in front of 1,000 other people. Being sensitive to it helps us support others and build stronger relationships. Read the lessons learned from this very public firing.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

Moreover, attracting and retaining talent is “at the top of the agenda” for CEOs, according to the 2011 Annual Global CEO Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Armstrong is a principal at Kahler Slater, a global architecture, design, and consulting enterprise specializing in Total Experience Design™. By Barbara T.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

This week has been a blur of promotions for the Lance Armstrong interview and I’ve begun to wonder, how do you protect the image of your company when your company is you? There is an old adage that says ‘you are the company you keep’, but in this increasingly global marketplace how realistic is that?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2013

Anne Perschel , from Germane Insights, picked Dear CEO: What's Your 400 Year Business Plan? Randy Conley , Leading with Trust , picked Five Leadership Lessons From the Life of Neil Armstrong. This past year saw the passing of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and a true American hero.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Mark Timm, CEO of Ziglar Family. Michael Levitt, CEO of BreakfastLeadership.com. Alinka Rutkowska, CEO of Leaders Press. Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca. Kevin Kruse, CEO of LEADx.org. John Mattone, President & CEO of John Mattone-Global. Tom Ziglar, Ziglar Inc. The habit of the right input.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Once upon a time, CEOs did not comment on governmental regulations or policies other than those that directly affected their industries or companies. Nowadays, hundreds of CEOs have weighed the risks against the rewards of speaking out and decided to speak publicly. Most of these CEOs have been based in the U.S.,

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Randy Conley , from Leading with Trust, runs for a TD with Five Leadership Lessons From The Life of Neil Armstrong. Many CEOs have identified creativity and innovation as critically important to growing their organizations. Dallas Cowboys. Anna Farmery , from The Engaging Brand, scores with 5 Common Mistakes with Social Media.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Consider the case of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. During the meeting, which was called to announce layoffs and site closings, Armstrong publicly fired Patch’s creative director for apparently recording the meeting. This “brutal” firing created a firestorm of negative publicity both for AOL and for Armstrong.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

Armstrong/Roberts Classic Stock/Getty Images. “Leadership today,” Javier Pladevall, CEO of Audi Volkswagen, Spain, told us, “is about unlearning management and relearning being human.” ” Based on our work in creating more human leaders, here are a few tips: Be personal. Be self-aware.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 12, 2011

Truly, Khamneithang Vaiphei January 12, 2011 11:12 PM Suz Armstrong said. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., A world that is growing worse by the day is likely to witness and hear more of such horrible tragedies. since 1987.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. A recording of the incident went viral.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired an Employee in Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. A recording of the incident went viral.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

How do the best CEOs confront that challenge? For 10 years, I worked as a consultant to John Emery, CEO of Emery Worldwide, now part of UPS. Recently, I watched two CEOs handle similar situations. Repeatedly Armstrong told his staff that anyone not fully invested in Patch should leave. .”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Many are slaves to email (one CEO only half-jokingly defines his job as “ answering 2,000 emails a day ”) and have much of the remainder of their time filled with meetings. But some CEOs have managed to resist these tendencies. Phil Libin, former Evernote CEO, uses time in airplanes to disconnect from daily work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Tim Armstrong, during his tenure as the CEO of AOL, fired an executive on a live conference call after the exec snapped a photo of him for the internal website. In fact, it’s far more likely that exceptionally talented people like Musk, Hughes, Jobs, Getty, and Armstrong succeed despite these traits.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

The first which I attended was at the Armstrong-Johnson Ford dealership. Its CEO (John Y. He told me that I must think like a world-class visionary, grow into the role and not just remain a radio DJ. In 1959, radio stations used to do live remotes from advertisers’ locations. Colonel Sanders died in 1979.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, Neil Armstrong used the six hours and forty minutes between his moon landing and first step to craft his historic statement. Make sure you have at least a fifteen- to thirty-second message that is so salient it will be obvious to reporters that it should be featured in the broadcasts. Use catchy words.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

I was with Cactus at a remote for Armstrong-Johnson Ford. Senior corporate executives, especially those who rose to the rank of CEO, have had to adapt more in their careers than young people who never rise past mid-management. The out-cue was to describe the 1959 Ford model. They will cut and skim. People get what they pay for.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’m reading about … I’m very interested in Custer, for various reasons, George Armstrong Custer. For one thing, I have to tell you that I graduated West Point with one of the lowest math averages since George Armstrong Custer graduated in the class of June of 1861. They should reread what they write.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Don't Buy a CEO's Apology — Buy Cars That Are Safe The Guardian GM succeeded because America wanted it to, not because it had the ability to make safe cars. When Lance Armstrong was a hero, his Livestrong nonprofit raised hundreds of millions of dollars to help cancer patients and their families. Andrea Ovans.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I'm the CEO of Desso , a European company that makes carpets, carpet tiles and synthetic sports surfaces. A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. I'm also an owner. We put our money in because we saw an opportunity to turn a struggling company around and secure a high ROI. We did that.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

But unlike [Lance] Armstrong, Jobs has so far done little publicly to raise money or awareness for the disease." Last year Change.org wrote of Steve Jobs, "It's high time the minimalist CEO became a magnanimous philanthropist.". (The article acknowledged that he could have been giving anonymously.). is a cancer survivor. It went on, ".he's

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

This line from Businessweek''s Susan Berfield is a darned good summary of what went wrong for Barnes & Noble and its former CEO, William Lynch. "He was a Silicon Valley dreamer in charge of a bookstore chain." And how often do you really influence people by your words anyway? —Andy O''Connell. BONUS BITS: In Retrospect. Innovation'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 3, 2012

Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis suggest in Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, leaders [.].

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