Decker Communication

APRIL 27, 2022

Three years ago, our CEO, Ben Decker and I were working on a keynote speech for a senior executive at a cloud platform provider. The executive entered the conference room and shared his theme for the keynote: “Digital Transformation is culture transformation , plain and simple. How wrong we were!

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Incubator Storytelling Agility Training 105

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Of course not, but even the best CEO can’t do everything alone. And team members should share a level of trust with one another and with the CEO. They bring information back to the CEO, either in the form of an update on current projects or in response to a specific question or assignment. Teams can serve a variety of functions.

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Delegation How To Real Estate CEO 172

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

We’ve all been to the classic planning meeting, at a conference or in an executive’s office, to think through a compelling issue or crisis at an organization. While I’m not in the product promotion business, I was so impressed by a new crowd-sourcing technology I recently encountered that I can’t resist sharing my experience.

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Brainstorming Conference Consensus eBook 126

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). The pandemic has boosted the application of technologies across both public and private sectors. Event details here.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Watch the full webinar here: CMI Singapore supports 25th SMEICC CMI Singapore is pleased to be a supporting the organisation of the 25th SMEICC business conference and expo, to be held at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre on 13–14 September 2022.

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Mentor Newsletter Energy Webinar 52

Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Bob is the former CEO of the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company. If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? Guest post by John Hunter. Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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Deming Company Management Conference 53

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

My engagements with CEOs often focus on helping them to embrace change through disruptive innovation. While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities.

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

HR Digest

JANUARY 31, 2021

Come to work some days a week; rest operate from home as far as possible. Speaking at a Reuters’ conference, Jope said he did not expect office workers across western Europe and North America to return to work until at least April. The CEO said the pandemic had shown that an alternative way of working was viable.

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Real Estate Social Capital Fashion Teamwork 59

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

link] Meredith Bell I had the opportunity to meet Kevin recently at a conference and had a follow-up phone conversation with him. link] mikemyatt Hi Amie: Thanks for your comment. I'm sure Kevin appreciates your kind words. Thanks again for stopping by. I appreciate your sharing his wisdom about leadership, Mike.

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Leadership Blog Brand Consultative 353

Tony Mayo

JULY 30, 2009

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences?

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Bottom-up Mayo Executive Coaching Execution 135

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Advanced tools for creating and testing new products and the operations that will make them are all around us. They are not only changing the economics of innovation and operations, they are also pushing the frontier of what’s possible. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate. Build trust.

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Operations Technology Engineering Tools 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2018

Businesses operate at a pace such that they grab for help wherever it is available. Technology consulting firms. Conferences. CEO roundtables. More often than not, they reach toward the wrong resources, the untied advisors and sources that send them down rabbit holes. It is lonely at the top. Researchers.

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Advice Library Seminar Webinar 51

Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences?

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Mayo Executive Coaching Efficiency Handbook 146

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Alphabet (Google) moved their social innovation lab (Jigsaw) out of the organization so that it could operate independently. Avoid creating it under the auspices of a strict operational or financial leader determined to conform the outputs to legacy metrics. Total Secrecy Is Totally Wrong.

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Innovation Real Estate Management Metrics 50

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The transformation of Silicon Valley from farmland into the center of the technological universe has been attracting envious looks from around the world for a generation or more. Digital dominance. There is also a supportive regulatory environment that has helped fintech innovators to emerge. Our mission is to bring tech ‘makers’ (i.e.

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Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

We carefully planned our route based on a series of speaking events, conferences, and workshops that maximized our ability to gather as many diverse leaders in one location at the same time. ” With over 80% of CEOs saying they have a talent gap issue, how did we get to this pint, and how would you suggest fixing it?”

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I visited his church on numerous occasions.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

My CEO, Rex Hammond. He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy). but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. I have no doubt he will achieve that goal. My previous board chair, Bob Bowden.

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Blog Covey Learning-by-Doing Video 321

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. ” When asked about automation in retail, a good jobs company CEO who recently visited our class at MIT said he saw automation as a force multiplier.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Cost System Management Franchising 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). As we've found so many times before, data and software can play a critical role in making operations more efficient and sustainable.

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Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

At RoboBusiness this week, a conference devoted to the business and technology of robots, the revelation for me was not just how far robotic capabilities have come but also the range of problems robots are already helping to solve. a panel of CEOs had no end of answers. The list goes on.

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Mass Marketing CEO Technology Conference 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? We interviewed search professionals, CEOs, and CHROs with nontraditional backgrounds to find out what happens when business leaders outside of HR move into the role. That’s precisely what we found.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

General Services Administration after a scandal involving an extravagant employee conference that involved lots of federal contract violations. Though she wasn''t involved in the conference, she took the fall. As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible.

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Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical. After lunch we would take a tour of that country's operations. We tried to be as inclusive as possible.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding technology opportunities to solve America’s infrastructure problems. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler.

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Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Before my presentation at an employee event, I listened as CEO Inge Thulin and senior execs from each of the major divisions laid out their strategies. But most importantly, I heard about some great new products and technologies. It's also remarkably safe for users and technology — you can safely dip an iPhone in the stuff.

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Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

For example, at Red Hat, where I serve as president and CEO, we have at least three associates who are so passionate about our company’s role in changing the world through open source technology that they have gotten a tattoo of “Shadowman,” the icon wearing a red fedora in our company logo. Insight Center.

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Company How To CIO Chief Operating Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. CIOs need to understand business better, but the C-suite should understand technology''s potential better.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The findings are sobering: almost half of CEOs view their CIOs as out of step with the business and about the same percentage think IT should be a commodity service, purchased as needed. As Leni Kaufman noted: "I think often people come into a conference room, they come into a meeting, and then they talk IT. Don''t talk IT.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. And even with the best of intentions, most CEOs start off disadvantaged in building the next big thing. Based on an annual survey conducted by the Conference Board, the average CEO departs her role with fewer than 9 years under her belt.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency. These overlooked roles are: Essential experts.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be. Double your ratio of questions to statements.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. Building a new Social Nation isn’t just about a paradigm shift in technology.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The proliferation of C-suite roles is an indication of the increasing strategic and operational complexity organizations face. Brad Peters, CEO of Birst, a business intelligence company, raised the issue of incentives and structure with me in an interview at Saleforce.com’s Dreamforce conference. Technology'

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Incentives Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence Execution 8