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DECEMBER 21, 2023

KUSI CEO Talia Fox with an observation regarding organizations: “Organizations have hierarchies, but rather than mere levels of power, they operate more as levels of understanding and observation.” Source: Intelligent Leadership: What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full Potential II.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. At the end of the year, Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison releases The Five Graces of Life and Leadership.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

The CEO Test : Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders by Adam Bryant and Kevin Sharer. The CEO Test is the authoritative, no-nonsense insider's guide to navigating leadership's toughest challenges, brought to you by authors uniquely qualified to tell the stories. Are you ready to lead? Will you pass the test?

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Effective Managers Write the Rules of the Road with Their Teams by @ArtPetty Building Your Personal Braintrust by @SahilBloom The Ambiguity Factor in Leadership Communication by @JenniferVMiller 11 Principles that Form a Design Mindset by @stephenanderson A Few Laws of Getting Rich by @morganhousel Fall Back to Reading Series Featuring @JamesStrock (..)

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison on failure: “The most important aspect of failure is not the moment of defeat or loss. I don’t know a CEO who can’t identify with that sentiment, knowing that it takes both success and failure to shape one’s ability to lead. Source: The Age of Unreason.

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MARCH 6, 2023

In Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World , former Chairman and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty redefines power as a way to “drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few.”

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

A top strategy professor and two highly successful CEOs found that, in companies that had successfully changed their culture, leaders had taken dramatic actions that embodied the new cultural values. The Diary of a CEO : The 33 Laws of Business and Life by Steven Bartlett Steven Bartlett has never been one to follow conventional rules.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

CEO Coaching: Off your line? 3 Lessons from a Shocking Ouster via @TheDailyCoach Bob Chapek was fired as Disney CEO earlier this week. Five Tips from the McDonald’s CEO and How it Can Transform Your Organization by @PhilCooke. Why Leaders Must Learn to Forgive and Forget via @Entrepreneur. by @toddordal.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Good Power : Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World by Ginni Rometty Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty recounts in Good Power , her groundbreaking path from a challenging childhood to becoming the CEO of IBM and one of the world's most influential business leaders. The result: mixed signals.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on leadership: “The fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

Mark Thomson on leading transformation: “You are not going to succeed as a CEO if you try to impose a set of ideas or a new culture Day 1. Source: As quoted in The CEO Test. * * *. It just doesn’t work. It’s got to be owned. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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JUNE 1, 2021

In Be Where Your Feet Are , this CEO of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils offers his own story of grief and healing, and shares his most valuable lessons in what keeps him present, grounded, and thriving as a father, husband, coach, mentor, and leader. In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

What the Science of Leadership Character Reveals In Fred Kiel’s groundbreaking book, Return on Character , he discussed the seven-year study of 84 CEOS, their executive staffs, and their employees, which found that CEOs with strength of character brought in nearly five times greater return on assets and enjoyed a 26 percent higher level of workforce (..)

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

Patrick Lencioni has penned another leadership fable that follows the discussion of two CEOs getting to the bottom of why they lead and the results they are getting from their two different mindsets. Most CEOs don’t hate the idea of communicating to employees. Y OU either lead for yourself or others. That’s right—a meeting.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

Years ago, we engaged with a CEO in the mattress industry who wanted to know how he could create real brand distinction and drive more retail traffic in such a highly commoditized category. The mattress CEO was relentless about doing right by customers, and this made him very particular about who he hired and how they were trained.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

With similar conviction, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said, “Empathy makes you a better innovator.It’s a quality my wife helped me begin to learn when our son was born with severe disabilities. It’s a quality that shapes our quest to meet unmet needs of customers.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Adapt And Fast: CEOs’ Keys To Surviving A Crisis by @profkjmoore and Joshua Pardo. Do you really want a CEO to be a role model? Patrick Lencioni: A Good Time For Quiet Contemplation by @patricklencioni via @CheifExecGrp. How can you prepare for change, particularly change that is ever in flux and unknowable at the same time?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Know What Matters : Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations by Ron Shaich Ron Shaich, founder and former CEO of Panera Bread, is a business visionary who has been part of building three iconic restaurant brands: Au Bon Pain, Panera Bread, and now Cava. They move fast and fix things. It turns out that it's not. The next day he was fired.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

The day after Jeffrey Immelt became CEO of General Electric, he had an even bigger challenge to deal with—the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In his twenty years as CEO, GE’s value had risen 4,000 percent. Immelt gives us an inside look—the other side of the story—at what happened at GE while he was CEO. That’s baptism by fire.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

As founder and CEO of Chobani, a top-selling yogurt company, he “operates on a simple fundamental principle, that we do well by doing good.” He was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his efforts to dismantle apartheid and later became the country’s first Black president. Hamdi Ulukaya – Ulukaya immigrated to the U.S.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Then prepare to be surprised: Your CEO, CFO, and COO may very well give different answers. So, when thinking about your employees and talent strategies, that’s where you must start: at the top. Ask each person on your executive team what the vision is for your company. When your executives have different visions, you have a problem.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Source: The Edge: How Ten CEOs Learned to Lead--And the Lessons for Us All. The best capacities of an earlier time thus remain informative but also incomplete for the challenges we face ahead.”.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

The most important person is not the CEO, but the person facing a challenge. CEOs should spend some time on a retreat and reflect, read Plato, think more of philosophy. The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that. Tim Brown, President and CEO, IDEO. ? Peter Oswald, CEO, Mondi Group. ?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shares his love of learning: “The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. Source: Steve Clayton, Microsoft’s chief storyteller, interviews CEO Satya Nadella. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. I get excited about new things.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Why the Best Leaders Ask For Help In A Crisis by @LollyDaskal Lego CEO Niels Christiansen On Play During Covid-19 Pandemic via @TIME #Lego makes a hundred billion bricks a year. CEO Niels Christiansen on why they're now more important than ever. 25 Ways You May Be Stressing Yourself Out by @FrankSonnenberg.

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APRIL 20, 2023

As the new CEO of United Airlines, Oscar Munoz on listening: “Perhaps it wasn’t as important that I proved to employees that I had all the answers to every problem. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

Former IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty on the challenge of changing a culture: “When moments of reinvention arrive, innovating the how can be overlooked in favor of focusing on the what. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I had just come off my first CEO assignment with Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. These and many other principles and practices are covered in my new book, Real Teams Win: What Smart Leaders Need to Know Now About Achieving Peak Performance. * * * Tom Steding has been CEO of more than 12 high tech companies and active chairman of several others.

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JULY 22, 2021

Former CEO of Honeywell International, Larry Bossidy , on the behaviors a leader should look for in his or her direct reports: “Over the years, I’ve observed that certain behaviors, on the part of both the subordinate and the boss, are conducive to productive and rewarding relationships.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. For the first time, Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own, as he matured into the CEO it needed.

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MARCH 31, 2020

READ, Caveat emptor, CEO by @TedKinni A short list of questions can help leaders avoid the potentially harmful consequences of flawed management studies. Jack Welch: For a time, the most valuable CEO on earth by @geoffcolvin. How to Make No-good, Useless Performance Feedback Helpful by @davidmdye.

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MARCH 15, 2021

In December 2018, Larry Page, the cofounder of Google and CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, attended a gathering of about 200 of the country’s top CEOs in New York. He is also president and CEO of Chestnut Hill Associates, a strategy consulting firm offering a suite of online executive development courses. 3, 2020).

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JUNE 8, 2021

The CEO needs to be leading the parade, setting the vision, and pointing the way. She is the Global CEO of the international consultancy Proudfoot. No matter how big or small the change you want to make, if you’re a team leader, it all comes down to you. That’s a little different than what our guts tell us, right? Well, yes, she does.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Just as CEOs who optimize for quarterly profits often fail to make the strategic investments necessary for long-term growth, the same is true in our own personal and professional lives. For a dozen years as one of the world’s most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai in New York Times , 11.08.18 “By scouting out hidden correlations that escape our linear cause-and-effect logic , business A.I. CEO of snack company Kind, Daniel Lubetzky in Inc. Technology is an enabler, but humanity has to deal with humanity’s problems. can outperform even the most veteran of experts.”

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MARCH 4, 2024

In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. With few wins in the ledger, the best and the brightest started to leave. For Microsoft, the future looked bleak. In stepped Satya Nadella. The turnaround he engineered was nothing short of remarkable.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Tony Hseih, CEO of the online shoe retailer Zappos, once famously said that he didn’t know anything about shoes, but knew a lot about creating workplace culture. When hiring at Slack, CEO Stewart Butterfield looks for humility and an acknowledgment that luck has played some part in the job prospect’s success.

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