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JULY 24, 2019

One of the stories I tell in The Next Level is about the CEO of a very well-known company who, in speaking to a meeting of the top 200 executives there, spontaneously riffed out loud about how “We could use more employees with the skill set and approach that Competitor X has.” The answer was, “You told us to at the top executive conference.”

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JULY 31, 2012

It was inspired by the departure of a fellow named Jack Griffin who lasted less than six months as the CEO of Time, Inc. Today, I’m very happy to give equal time to the positive lessons that can be learned from the current CEO of. Last year, I wrote a post about how to avoid being fired in five months. Click headline to continue.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

I suspect that the total elapsed time of moments like that in a presidency or premiership or the tenure of a CEO are usually measured not in days or hours but in minutes. Moments like these are galvanizing for sure, but they’re moments nonetheless. Her response was immediate, “This is a disaster, and it’s getting worse.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

As smart phone addicted people around the world await Apple CEO Tim Cook''s introduction of the iPhone 6 tomorrow, perhaps this is a good day to think about how to keep your smart phone from taking over your life.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

With a shout out to the folks at SmartBrief on Leadership for pointing it out, I recommend to you a deeply reported article in Fortune magazine about how and why Pfizer CEO Jeff Kindler was pushed. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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APRIL 25, 2017

Join me as I interview Lolly Daskal , Founder and CEO of Lead From Within, as we discuss The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness. In this book, Lolly lays out her life’s work and shares a system she’s used for nearly 30 years coaching executives from around the world.

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APRIL 4, 2023

Certainly, the CEO and other C-Suite roles are among them. There were certain things that only they could do as the in-country senior representative of their company. Since that experience, I’ve tuned into how the need for an ambassadorial approach to leadership extends to a range of executive roles. There are others as well, though.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

In a meeting with a group of CEO''s last week, we were talking about how to show up at your best under conditions of high stress. One of the group shared a checklist of that a well eds expert had given him. It was a list of activities you could do either indoors or outdoors that would lower your stress.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

government over the sale of “troubled mortgage securities” I asked myself, “How does their CEO, Jamie Dimon, keep his job? When the news came out last week that JP Morgan Chase had agreed to pay $13 billion in fines to settle a case with the U.S. Click headline to continue. Current Affairs General Leadership crisis leadership Jamie Dimon'

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Today, he is the CEO of Think Food Group and the mastermind behind eight restaurant concepts with locations in D.C., Foodies in Washington, D.C., know all about Jose Andres, the award-winning chef who popularized Spanish style tapas dining in America. Los Angeles. Click headline to continue.

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APRIL 3, 2014

That can happen in lots of situations including conversations around the board of directors table about who the next CEO is going to be. Ever wonder how smart people make bad decisions?

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APRIL 4, 2012

These days, he’s the newly promoted CEO of a hospital in North Carolina. So, I got an e-mail yesterday from my brother, Steve. He’s a University of Kentucky grad and was the student manager for the basketball team during the Joe B. Being a rabid Wildcat fan, he was miffed that on the morning after UK won the. Click headline to continue.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

To accommodate the schedules of two high powered CEOs who agreed to speak during the lunch session, the meeting organizers scheduled two keynote addresses during the meal. Not to get all Dickensian on you but it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That was the case at a conference I attended recently.

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MAY 3, 2012

Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. Well, you have to hand it to News Corp. He knows how to generate a story. The twist on the latest Murdoch story, however, is that he’s the subject of it.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings must be feeling a little bit like a team that ended up on the cover of Sports Illustrated and then started losing games. Last year, Hastings was on the cover of Fortune as. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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APRIL 14, 2020

One of my CEO clients reminded me of that when we talked last week. So, what can we all do about this? As it happens, this is also the period that in normal times a lot of people would be taking Spring Break trips with their families.

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APRIL 20, 2012

This week, I’m highlighting tweets and links on our stressful relationship with our smartphones, whether CEOs deserve privacy, the importance of listening, developing your leadership skills and a story of a great comeback. Every week, I share a recap of some of the best things I’ve seen on Twitter. Click headline to continue.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

There’s been so much written about Steve Jobs stepping down as Apple CEO this week. As an Apple fan and a student of business leaders, it’s hard to disagree with the many, many tribute articles that. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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MAY 4, 2015

He was the 47 year old CEO of the online questionnaire company, Survey Monkey. As I was skimming through the headlines from the New York Times on Saturday morning, I was stunned to read the news of the death of Dave Goldberg. You may not have heard of him until this past weekend. Goldberg died while he was on vacation with his wife.

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MAY 7, 2015

Recently, I had the opportunity to hear how the CEO of a large and well known company thinks through decisions by sitting in on a business briefing he did for his extended leadership team. That’s especially true in businesses or other organizations where the often competing interests of different stakeholders have to be balanced.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Brian Schools, President and CEO of Chartway Federal Credit Union explains why you shouldn’t settle for less as you build your go-to team: “Building a true go-to team is not easy, so my first piece of advice is not to settle or the “go-to” part really won’t ever transpire as the underlying belief and trust isn’t there.

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APRIL 14, 2017

The airline’s CEO Oscar Munoz issued a corporate-speak statement about his regret about having to “re-accommodate” some passengers on the flight. In the spirit of love, though, as a 1K flyer with United, I’d like to offer some unsolicited advice and perhaps an unexpected word of praise to CEO Munoz.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The New York media world was abuzz last week with news of the termination of veteran publishing executive, Jack Griffin, from his job of CEO of Time, Inc. a little more than five months after he got. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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JANUARY 30, 2015

Here’s the list: Bitcoin and the Digital Currency Revolution: A couple of weeks ago I was talking with a CEO who told me that Bitcoin puts a lot of companies in the same position that Kodak was in at the beginning of digital photography.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

His company has grown a lot through acquisitions and his CEO always says to his execs “Don’t break it,” when they’re folding the acquired company into their operations. I thought about Powell and the Pottery Barn rule during a recent lunch with an executive friend of mine.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

Everyone from the CEO on down is super busy. Lately, I’ve been working with a company that’s about to make a big leap. They have a potentially world-changing product and are on the cusp of scaling up in a big way. It’s very exciting stuff. There is a lot of work to do both internally and externally.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Something else I’ve really enjoyed in the last few years is tracking the career path of my Next Level alums who have leveraged the team leadership and colleague engagement skills I cover in Next Level Leader into positions like senior vice president, executive vice president, president of their business units or CEO of their companies.

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JULY 21, 2020

Gary Burnison , the CEO of recruiting and leadership development firm Korn-Ferry writes a weekly email every week which I subscribe to. Not surprisingly, a lot of his notes the past several months have focused on leading during the pandemic.

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

The subject is Dan Akerson, who’s been the CEO of General Motors for 15 months. There’s an interesting article in the New York Times today for anyone who has ever had to improvise madly when their boss makes an unexpected public commitment. Akerson is not a “car guy.”

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    This weekend, they ran a feature on Ballmer’s early days colleague from Proctor and Gamble, General Electric CEO, Jeff Immelt.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Michael is the CEO and President of Thomas Nelson Publishing and has a fantastic following as one of the best leadership bloggers around. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to reach his readers directly.

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JUNE 2, 2021

When I was writing that book, I interviewed several dozen highly successful people from the CEO of Hilton to the former Commandant of the U.S. Seven years and a global pandemic later, burnout is an even hotter topic (pun only slightly intended). Coast Guard, to learn about how they managed themselves.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

A multi-million dollar CEO was forced to resign; a flight attendant chose not to wait for the jetway to depart and an office worker named “Jenny” shared her white board based resignation letter with millions when it went viral online.  But first, a recap.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

  For Kenneth Feld, CEO of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, it must be hard to resist that feeling.    In it's almost always interesting Corner Office series, the New York Times ran an interview with Feld on what he's learned from leading the Greatest Show on Earth.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Start where you are – Over the weekend, I read an article about Larry Fink , the chairman and CEO of global investment giant, BlackRock, putting climate sustainability at the center of the investment strategy for the $8.7 trillion in assets his firm manages.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

That’s exactly the question that Los Angeles Regional Food Bank CEO Michael Flood and his team had to answer and act on this year. What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand?

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

In case you haven't heard of Elon Musk, he's a cofounder of PayPal , the CEO of Tesla Motors and the CEO of SpaceX. "  If you're Elon Musk, you'll probably need a little more time to answer than the average leader to answer that question.

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