Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Here, McBean shares the importance of leadership: Being a leader sounds like a great thing to be -- and it certainly is. But here is the rub: though the word "leadership" gets tossed around a lot, real, productive leadership is still very uncommon. Sure, leadership can be more complicated than this.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

A classical strategy (the one everyone learned in business school) works well for companies operating in predictable and immutable environments. Finally, a company moving into a different stage of its life cycle may well require a shift in strategic style. John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership (ebook formats at $2.99) John G.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

[ I’m happy to share this guest post from my friend and colleague, Michael Kennedy —a veteran of the automotive industry and renowned automotive recruiter. As an automotive recruiter I should be laughing all the way to the bank—but this is no laughing matter. Good, talented people are asking themselves, Is this all there is?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

But in the world of leadership, humor has typically been typecast as a manifestation of individual personalities and thereby a spontaneous and non-replicable activity. This works because all the participants have come to trust and respect one another – but leadership still actively moderates to ensure that no red-lines are crossed.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. With his friend Bill Sterett, he purchased an underperforming automotive dealership in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1992.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 billion and is estimated to be worth $48 billion by 2026, with the Covid pandemic driving growth, especially in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, but also in sectors such as automotive and defense. “ There are cases with upload speeds of over 1Gbps.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 16, 2014

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. With his friend Bill Sterett, he purchased an underperforming automotive dealership in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1992.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Presence in the Present" As a branded company whose success depends on change management, Kellogg Company puts a premium on its internal culture. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Kellogg Company has taken great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I).

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2013

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. With his friend Bill Sterett, he purchased an underperforming automotive dealership in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1992.

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Books Automotive Review Open-book 64

Coaching Tip

APRIL 27, 2012

Bob Lutz former Vice Chairman of General Motors, president of Chrysler, as well as an executive at both Ford and BMW, conceived the Chevy Volt as his last automotive project. And if your company's culture is to mean anything, you have to hang--publicly--those in your midst who would destroy it. that can ruin a company's reputation.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. In my new book “ The 4 Lenses of Innovation ”, I outline four proven ways to generate the new strategic opportunities that will power your company’s future growth. Not very likely.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

When Edison developed a commercially viable light bulb, he was able to convince Morgan to advance him $30,000 for the Edison Electric Light Company. When the company began installing electricity in homes, Morgan’s home in New York was one of the first to get electricity. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Our world is too complex, markets too volatile, and technology too fast-paced for us to relax into complacency about organizational safety and normalcy. A 25-year veteran in senior human resources and leadership and development roles in four multinational companies, Harry Hutson is now an independent consultant.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

I know companies — strong organizations — centered on these values. Once a company starts to condone lying as a matter of course, it is headed for serious trouble. Perseverance presupposes confidence, and few companies can match Xerox for its sense of confidence and determination. Accountability. Perseverance.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The Empathy Index seeks to answer the question: Which companies are successfully creating empathetic cultures? These are the companies that retain the best people, create environments where diverse teams thrive, and ultimately reap the greatest financial rewards. The leaders were asked to rate the companies’ morality.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. In September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders. This despite the fact that the company lost nearly two billion dollars in the past two years alone.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets?

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The following are five candidates for the practical values having foremost importance: Integrity Accountability Diligence Perseverance Discipline I know companies -- strong organizations -- centered on these values. Once a company starts to condone lying as a matter of course, it is headed for serious trouble.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

based companies. However, there is a high level of uncertainty about the ultimate outcome and consequences for companies, in part because the effect could be offset or aggravated by how currency rates adjust. The uncertain nature of trade policy has left many leadership teams reluctant to act. political upheaval.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

An automobile manufacturer got it right when it tried to crack the Indian market. This company recognized that big city dealerships were already tied up with local manufacturers, but also saw that second-tier cities were untapped. It might sound obvious, but companies often don't monitor the most relevant data.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Two companies can invent similar technologies; one will win and the other will lose. Over the years, I have consistently seen what I call "latent factors" — business features that are generally outside the scope of the core tech team — to be real factors in a company's success. HP had a similar situation with the LaserJet.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. What is Your Company's Dominant Logic?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

According to her story, a survey by executive-search firm Spencer Stuart found that about four out of five S&P 500 companies that chose a new CEO last year promoted insiders. That is good news for the companies involved. Often outsiders would “clean up the company” and then sell it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

When Mulally arrived at the struggling company, he set his sights on dismantling the toxic culture that had metastasized within it. Given the state of internal affairs at the company, it’s no wonder the Ford brand was struggling on the outside. and then working as one team to deliver on those, as a Fortune article explains.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Is this a warning shot that signals that other legacy industrial companies, such as Ford, Deere, and Rolls Royce are also at increased risk of being disrupted? Manufacturing-heavy companies such as Caterpillar, Ford, and Rolls Royce compete in this world. Companies like Rolls Royce design and manufacture jet engines.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Ghosn recounts with humor how Dr. V.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your company have a COO today? That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Don’t use your customer team as a buffer between company and customer. What to do.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Before the IT revolution, MLMs wielded genuine power within companies, acting as gatekeepers of crucial data, financials, and intelligence. I examined each company''s internal documents, interviewed participants in all ranks, and analyzed market data; I also used outcome measures directly tied to the innovation/change.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Research by McKinsey & Company and the McKinsey Global Institute shows that digitization is having the same radical impact.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

For the moment, this is good news for those companies still experimenting or piloting AI (41%). Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Kent Thiry builds a values-focused culture at DaVita and transforms the company from a laggard to the world’s leading provider of kidney dialysis services. Alan Mulally creates a “working–together” spirit at Ford Motor Company that focuses and re-energizes the automaker, reversing a decades-long slide in market share.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Paid digital TV companies, which also include Netflix and Amazon Prime, face high churn. The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. Vanguard owns some 5% of most publicly-traded companies in the U.S., But that does mean indexed investors will remain passive if a company’s strategy could be strengthened or its results could be better. .”

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