Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Return on Character : The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win by Fred Kiel In Return on Character , Fred Kiel has put numbers to the notion that good leadership aimed at promoting the common good, not just individual, winner-take-all acquisition can be good business. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Thanks for your comment Gordon. Thanks for stopping by Gordon. and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. Clogston Hi, Mike. Once again, you have nailed it.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Refusing to surrender, having the ability to make the tough decision, the needed sacrifice, and the focus to place fiduciary obligations above your self interest will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise. link] Gordon R. Thanks Mark.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From Miranda Priestley in The Devil Wears Prada to Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, a bad boss makes for a toxic workplace. But, beyond its negative effect on employees individually, unaccountable managers can also cost companies tons of money. Who was the most toxic boss you worked for in your career? But how do you identify them?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments Gordon R. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers. link] mikemyatt Hi Gordon: Thanks for your sharing your insights and I'm glad you find the posts to be valuable and of interest. Best wishes Gordon… [link] Principal (le?)

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. This approach rewards the ability to see and quickly respond to new opportunities and threats over the slower traditional big company departmental responses.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

If your company is in products, services, or businesses that you wouldn’t enter into if you weren’t in that particular arena today…GET OUT! As a CEO of any company, it's your responsibility to make the tough calls, and not let fear immobilize good decisions. This was a good read and better advice.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Remember the character Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street? His profit contribution was so vast that the CEO promoted him to the company’s management committee. This should have been the apex of Mike’s young career. To find out how you come across at work, check in with the people at home. by Marshall Goldsmith.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

In the movie Wall Street, Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his portrayal of the rude, larcenous wheeler-dealer Gordon Gekko. This should have been the apex of Mike's young career. Within a year, Mike's scores on his treatment of people shot up past the 50th percentile, above an already high company norm.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. The company had lost both flavor and heat; and nobody likes lukewarm soup. Soup tells the ’stirring’ story of how Nancy discovers the key ingredients to revitalize her company, her team, and herself. How was Nancy going to turn it around?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. The company had lost both flavor and heat; and nobody likes lukewarm soup. Soup tells the ’stirring’ story of how Nancy discovers the key ingredients to revitalize her company, her team, and herself. How was Nancy going to turn it around?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The company had lost both flavor and heat; and nobody likes lukewarm soup. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. How was Nancy going to turn it around?

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Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership is about taking risks… When Christine and her partners launched SCC, most of her banking friends didn’t understand why she was walking away from her “promising career&#. Know the risks, but believe in yourself and don’t explain your decision to the doubters, just go do it. There was so much more.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

link] Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Wow…thanks for the thoughtful comment Gordon. Thanks for sharing Gordon. link] Gordon R. Gordon [link] mikemyatt No worries…I thought that's what you meant. Thanks for the clarification Gordon. susanmazza Gordon, I loved the key points you distilled here!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The global economic landscape is perpetually evolving, and companies are adjusting their hiring practices to better fit their needs. Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Ingredient to Sustained Success. Are they searching for more engineers, data scientists, writers, or MBAs? BuzzFeed’s CEO on the Secret to Virality.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

The condition is rare but, fortunately, there appeared to be several specialists both in Germany and France who had each treated hundreds of cases during their careers. My friend is a rational guy, in charge of a large company. I was stunned. Finally, a valuable technique is to explicitly adopt an outside perspective.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

For a deeper view on this, check out the book “Orbiting The Giant Hairball&# by Gordon McKenzie ( [link] ). Reply Gwyn Teatro June 16, 2009 at 9:27 pm Yes, it is a fool’s errand to try Thanks Wally Reply BJ Gallagher Hateley June 17, 2009 at 3:12 am I LOVE Gordon McKenzie’s book! Thank you!!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In mid-September 2013, 10 professionals returning from multi-year career breaks walked into 270 Park Avenue in New York City to begin the J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In Morgan ReEntry Program. And last week J.P.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

It makes for a compelling image, especially given the stagnation in the representation of women in the executive suites of the largest companies despite their growing presence in the lower ranks. In 2000 we started following the careers of MBA graduates from top U.S. As Gordon M. But does it really tell the whole story?

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Others are mid-level, solo entrepreneurs, retired, or some at some other point in their careers. Gordon Leidner answers these questions in his guest post on Great Leadership!” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted The 5 Smartest Strategies to Build Influence in the Workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Your industry or company could be on the cusp of a disaster and you may not know it. Here's what we believe, surveying the landscape: It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change. Obviously, you are going to have to keep doing this for the rest of your career.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Volcanic ash, generally not on any company's worst case scenario list, disrupted air traffic for several weeks. Speaking of herds, while sacred cows can hold companies back if there is no courage to challenge orthodoxy, cows proved to be a better set of celebrity endorsers than Tiger Woods for Stonyfield Farms and their yogurt marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Others are better qualified than I to comment on Andy Grove’s many contributions as a member of the founding team of Intel Corporation, as the company’s CEO and chairman , or as a U.S. I later read that Gordon Moore had said that was as likely to be adhered to as the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. (As

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

In the late 19th and early 20th century, successful businessmen like Joseph Wharton wanted to professionalize companies and legitimize working in business. Too many tenured professors have never worked outside academia; they are familiar with neither the day-to-day operations of companies nor the intricate processes of how decisions are made.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

In the late 19th and early 20th century, with modern times knocking on the door, successful businessmen like Joseph Wharton wanted to professionalize companies and legitimize working in business. In general, let’s promote more dialogue between companies and academia. They were intended to be institutions of practical education.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Then again, since leadership equals influence these days, perhaps I should offer up Gordon Gekko in Wall Street and his famous (infamous) "greed is good scenario. Hoosiers Submitted by Joel Garfinkle , from Career Advancement Blog : “This article I wrote Feeling Equal to Someone Senior Than You mentions the movie Hoosiers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Have you ever noticed that when you ask someone in your company, “How are you?” That is because the norm in most companies is that you are supposed to be very busy – or otherwise at least pretend to be – because otherwise you can’t be all that important. ” they are more likely to answer “Busy!”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

It seemed as if there was never a good time for Susie Gordon and Antonio Barile to talk. The couple — co-owners of a Milan-based manufacturing company, Bottoni, and the parents of two girls, aged three and five — had their hands full. "It''s It''s my turn to stir!" Antonio tried to ignore her. "So What''s Fair Is Fair.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

” Or “ maybe I shouldn’t be in [this industry]” Some women scaled back on their ambitions, while others left companies or their chosen industry altogether. I had never thought of sexual harassment as affecting my career arc, and yet I can now see how its friction surely influenced it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

But the power of analytics as a mechanism for making decisions about hiring and firing is still growing, and the "application of predictive analytics to people’s careers … is enormously challenging, not to mention ethically fraught." But we know that favoritism and bias are all too common in these situations. million are their own fault.

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