Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities. The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out. Bottom line…success equals focus.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. In today’s post I’ll share 6 leadership characteristics that require zero talent or skill.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

NASDAQ: APPL ) has named Andrea Jung , CEO of Avon  (NYSE: AVP ), as the eigth member of its board of directors. Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, stated that Jung will bring a “new dimension&# to the company’s board. Andrea Jung is the first woman and the first Asian to hold a seat on Apple’s board.Â

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finance for the Now Normal: financial stability in the hotel industry CMI Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar titled 'Finance for the NOW NORMAL' with Mr Nirmalan Nagendra FCMI FIH, who is a senior Hospitality Finance Professional and Consultant for KPMG. Like this article? Why not share it.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

This is so much the case that some CEOs will avoid restructuring initiatives at all costs. My question is this…since when have fear and avoidance become prerequisites for success as a CEO? That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 14, 2013

The CEO didn’t have a clear answer. The problem is that it takes time and energy to really think through the implications of a set of goals and facilitate a thoughtful process to vet them. Doug Sundheim is a leadership and strategy consultant with over 20 years experience in helping leaders drive personal and organizational growth.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. The finance department is your business foundation so you need it to be one that you can trust. The research suggests that sales are highest when the team is highly coachable and under transformational leadership.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 1, 2022

As so often happens when you’re newly attuned to an issue, not long after that meeting, I came across a highly relevant remark from Warren Bennis, when he was Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Founding Chairman of The Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California. Security is the denial of life.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Lastly, I’ll leave you with this reminder – leadership is not about how many emails, memos and transmittals are sent under your signature – it’s about relationships, service, and engagement. A mouse running on a mousewheel can perfect their stride and reduce the amount of energy it takes to get "moving."

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. 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).

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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). Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

It is also the only company in the finance industry to have bucked the trend of bringing gender parity in the boardroom. In a truly remarkable interview with Monique Herena, we talk about American Express’s The Ambition Project , leadership resilience, and what we can do to help women propel into leadership roles.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Let me be very clear here - as the CEO or entrepreneur, YOU and not your legal counsel, marketing director, ad agency or PR firm must make this choice. If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part. Thanks for the great insights Rob. Best wishes Sir.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

This week Uber took a major step toward righting the ship with the choice of Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Executives, especially CEOs, need something better. If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Read your leading-edge industry publications, Forbes , other finance journals, and popular business books. If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

” After all, CEOs don’t actually build factories or sell products. It’s tempting, therefore, to view the CEO as primarily a thinker ; someone who mulls and shapes strategy. That is a part of the CEO’s job, of course. The CEO’s job is to make sure that happens.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

of Fortune 500 companies are run by female CEOs, and while there is incremental progress — there are 32 female CEOs this year, the highest percentage ever, compared with only 21 last year — the rate of change can feel excruciatingly slow. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner. Harry Haysom/Getty Images.

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Leading Blog

JULY 3, 2023

When leadership decides on a change — a new app, or a new process to help customers — everyone wants to get moving so that they can realize the anticipated results as soon as possible. As CEO he grew a transformation services company to seven figures in just five years. Irrevocable decisions will be made. There will be no going back.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

She had launched her career 12 years earlier with no connections — she just picked up a camera and started making small-budget films, including one she financed out of her own savings account. But even as she moved into positions of authority, DuVernay found that men continued to question her leadership and invade her personal space.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Never confuse power with leadership. Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP followed Jim, or at least attempted to…While Bill has a successful track record in business going all the way back to his years as an entrepreneurial teenager, his presentation was horrid (sorry Bill). It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

But if leadership allows itself to get distracted, the base business can quickly suffer. In many cases, integration efforts can take up so much time, energy, and attention that managers and employees are distracted from their day-to-day roles. Then executives from the CEO on down need to manage the culture actively.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Making matters more challenging, these shifts are happening across practically every retail category – books, entertainment, housewares, clothing, food, financial services, and even energy. When CEOs lead these meetings, teams can raise any issues, big or small, and get them resolved in minutes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). Even with strong CEO direction, subordinate business leaders who are crucial to its success may not share the commitment or invest in the expertise or understand the time required. A needed a pproach.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. The company’s leadership moved proactively to accelerate it and shape it. “If If we see a country where reward outweighs the risk, we want to invest,” CEO Jeff Immelt says in Success in Africa.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

. “It’s clear that leaders struggle with culture…Consider the fact that many CEOs say culture is their top priority, but admit they don’t understand it.” Lou Gerstner, the former IBM CEO, once said, “Culture is everything.” Finance is different from sales, R&D is different from quality, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. ” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. Hardly anyone raised their hand.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals? Collaborative leadership was critical for the revitalization of Central Park in New York City.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team.

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