Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The scene I want to spotlight is one in which Apple CEO John Scully sent over a man charged with managing the General Magic engineering group. ” One of the General Magic engineers immediately responded, “Thanks, but we don’t need a manager. .” But all that was to get you to watch the movie.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 17, 2018

This is particularly true in today’s complex and uncertain operating environments in which a culture of solidarity and knowledge sharing become critical drivers of staying relevant. To this end, humor engineered by leaders can shape a culture of empathy and relationship satisfaction and be a foundation for greater alignment.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Launch a “CEO for a Day” forum. Host town meetings with workers from across all levels of your organization to ask what they would do differently if they were CEO for a day. In 1943, Lockheed Martin commissioned an engineer to create an experimental team to begin work on a secret fighter jet for the U.S. Form an innovation team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Keegan , CEO, Merchants Fleet One thing all great leaders have in common is that they understand that transformational growth doesn’t happen without a willingness to change. When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Chief executive: CEOs are responsible for leading their organization and making sure that it’s running smoothly. A sales manager is generally involved with overseeing the entire operations of the sales department. As part of their job in management, they also oversee all the operations of the marketing team.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 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

JULY 17, 2014

Another common complaint about Business Review Meetings is that nearly always the time gets hijacked with discussions on day-to-day operating or tactical issues, especially when we have a room full of engineers turned managers; they quickly dive down into trying to fix the problem right then. Like a broken record every meeting.”.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have. Both industrial, machine-like robots and digital, computerized robots have revolutionized the way companies operate.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Risk-averse CEOs find comfort in the ‘ doing more of the same’ strategic mode. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 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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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 93

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 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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Leading Blog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Jack Welch, who led General Electric as its CEO from 1981 to 2001observed that mid-level leaders at GE struggled with having the courage to make a decision. As he applied power to the engine of the chopper, he whispered a prayer to his higher power to mitigate the risk. He began flying east over the South China Sea.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

People, culture, and work design form a “social engine” that drives innovation and execution personalized for each customer. The social engine, a company’s culture and way of organizing work, helps drive the growth of the big digital companies. Most of these digital giants operate with only three or four layers below the CEO.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 21, 2021

I recently had a call with a CEO about facilitating a strategic planning retreat this fall with 15 of their top leaders. The CEO sent me their draft agenda for the session. The session was focused on operational and tactical issues. Planning and budgeting focus on maximizing capital and operational dollars.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

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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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

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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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

CEO Interview: Sam Walsh. This edition of the CEO interview features Sam Walsh, the recently retired CEO, of Rio Tinto. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. (as featured in mining.com).

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. Don’t attempt to compete with those who are more evolved, piggy-back off of them, partner with them, engineer around them, on move out in front of them. Think next chapter vs last book.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 17, 2023

No CEOs or presidents. To explore how collaborative leadership works in practice, we talked to Emma Bould CMgr FCMI, who has spent her career in engineering leadership roles. The amount of leadership training you get in the military is huge ,” she says, “because when you’re placed in an operational role, you have to perform.”

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Indeed, in the Jobs of the Future index created by the consultancy firm Cognizant, roles such as “solar engineer” and “solar panel installer” feature heavily, with solar engineer jobs up around 368% in the past year. This growth has been driven by the tremendous technological strides made by solar power.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. According to licensing agreements and industry sources, Monsanto’s stranglehold on the genetically-engineered seed market in the United States and the world squeezes customers, limits competitors and provides staggering profits. Formerlife: CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Nabob, Kraft), Strategy/Branding Consultant.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2022

In the new book, Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier , you’ll discover how seven companies from around the world reinvented the talent management process to become better functioning companies and talent engines that drive impressive growth. Question: What are the most important things to look for in a candidate when selecting a CEO?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 1, 2018

This is particularly true in today’s complex and uncertain operating environments in which a culture of solidarity and knowledge sharing become critical drivers of staying relevant. To this end, humor engineered by leaders can shape a culture of empathy and relationship satisfaction and be a foundation for greater alignment.

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Organization Succession CEO Emotional Intelligence 150

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

As the founder and CEO of Human Workplace, Liz envisions a future where work is fluid, nimble, and built on trust. We cannot assume that because someone implemented what was the best practice in the 1940s or 1960s, but it’s still the way we should be operating today. It’s easy to see why. It just takes a change in mindset.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As society shifts its view of businesses from engines of profit to engines for good, more and more organizations are soul-searching for a purpose. asks Tom Schlick, Operational Consultant & Coach at CO2, “Is that why we get out of bed every morning? What is our purpose? Who do we serve? What drives us? Nobody does that.”

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CO2

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As society shifts its view of businesses from engines of profit to engines for good, more and more organizations are soul-searching for a purpose. asks Tom Schlick, Operational Consultant & Coach at CO2, “Is that why we get out of bed every morning? What is our purpose? Who do we serve? What drives us? Nobody does that.” .

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Long-term Short-term Engineering Goal 78

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Ford did not think up the combustion engine or automobiles, Edison did not think up incandescent light bulbs, Larry Page did not think up search engines. Let’s look into the history of some household entrepreneurs and their industries. Disney didn’t think up animated films, or even amusement parks. Can it really be that simple?

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Succession Entrepreneur Real Estate Engineering 257

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 13, 2017

Now the importance of inquisitiveness in today’s leadership is fairly obvious considering how much faster we have to operate and make decisions, if not also how quickly things can change. Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, once said “We run this company on questions, not answers.” And that tool is our sense of curiosity.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

While my personal practice is focused on providing leadership advice and counsel to Fortune 500 CEOs, as the senior operating executive at our firm I also have oversight responsibility for our talent management practice. From my perspective, I can’t imagine not integrating services throughout the talent management lifecycle.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Savvy CEOs simply aren’t in a rush to close the deal and secure the funding if it means sacrificing knowledge, experience and influence. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . I have watched entrepreneurs and executives initially trivialize the value of influence in a capital transaction, only to regret it down the road.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2020

In the case of the machine operator, manual labor and routine tasks are most likely to be automated, while management, team-building, employee training and production supervision may now find themselves moved into priority roles. Another way to look at automation is as a time-creation engine: automation manufactures time.

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Blanchard Skills Cost Agility 66

Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. They run business units and geographic regions.

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Self-aware Leadership COO Influence 83

HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2021

More than 400 engineers and other workers at Google and its parent company, Alphabet , have formed a union open to all employees. On Monday, the group announced the creation of the AWU with an op-ed in The New York Times , after years of employees protesting for better workplace inclusivity and ethics at the search engine.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Bluffton Motor Works in Bluffton, Indiana, is a global leader in custom-engineered fractional electric motors. Gallo in Cleveland, Ohio, is a marketing communications company providing design, engineering, production and service of three-dimensional exhibit and digital displays for museum, tradeshow and traveling exhibits.

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Case Study Automotive Strategic Planning Engineering 83

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

These connection and observation activities enabled our great bosses to get reliable, valid, accurate information about how the team was operating and how the team was performing, every day. We could see our great bosses’ efforts to ensure they were seeing things “as they were” as opposed to how they assumed things were operating.

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