LDRLB

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

There isn’t a doubt in my mind that the leadership principles that worked for me as a CEO continue to apply to the current era of light speed communications and decision-making. Those that thrive, go a step further; they worship innovation and breathe healthy cultures. A CEO couldn’t ask for a better soldier in the battlefield.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

What she has done for youth and their families in Haiti demonstrates courage, compassion, purpose and leadership savvy few CEO’s of any age possess. I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. In the U.S.,

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s an argument that Haas Business School’s Henry Chesborough wholly agrees with, and outlines the case for a more open way of innovating as the solution to this productivity paradox in his latest book, Open Innovation Results. Innovation dissemination , which is the movement of these ideas and technologies into mainstream usage.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

So he asked the CMO to broker a meeting with the CEO to make a presentation on the subject. During the presentation the CEO was polite, if noncommittal. But the CMO could sense a duplicity in the CEO’s behavior and attitude as the parties all headed back to their respective offices. Because innovation requires it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. Whelan : Most of the CEOs did talk about policy in the interviews, but their statements were pretty vague. Future Economy. Future Thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

To understand its sustainability journey better, I spoke with the company’s head of environment, Sylvie Benard , and the CEOs of two of its wine and spirits brands. Charles Gibb, Belvedere’s CEO, says it made a strategic choice to invest in this project, even though it had a longer payback period than normal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. They add that strong support comes not only from the CEO and IT executives but also from all other C-level officers and the board of directors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 Conspicuously absent from the photo was Uber’s CEO , Travis Kalanick. On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. ” Here is the takeaway.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Even very talented people (the Weinstein brothers or Bonnie Hammer, for instance) make mistakes. As HBO CEO Richard Piepler explained during the Harvard Business School Entertainment and Media Summit , it's important to give talent creative freedom. It turns out that making entertainment is extremely hard. So does Netflix have an edge?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Indeed, a central theme of Lumina Foundation CEO James Merisotis’ latest book, Human Work , is that we often struggle to truly understand what skills we have, and indeed what skills we need to have in order to thrive in the modern labor market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

For example, several companies embarked on Six Sigma programs after their CEO heard about GE's success with the approach, and many other companies have adopted Lean because of Toyota's success. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

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