Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, Deborah Sweeney, the CEO of MyCorporation, learned early that she should never settle for less than her best. Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm, says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, Deborah Sweeney, the CEO of MyCorporation , learned early that she should never settle for less than her best. Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm , says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Deming is the core of our management.”. As a consumer, my introduction to the quality of the Toyota’s management system began in 1989 with the purchase of a Toyota pickup truck. According to Pipp, everyone was very quiet, until the division general manager cleared his throat and remarked, “The customer will never notice.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s also possible that her company’s CEO and senior leaders may only be paying it lip service at best. Senior and middle managers are REALLY good at figuring out what’s “real” and what’s not. Their boss is always hammering, er…, asking them about it. I’ve written about the importance of CEO commitment before.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. 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. That guy’s an idiot.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This is a post by August Turak, author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks : One CEO''s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Not only will we uncover potential hitches but managing the critical buzz is much easier. Don''t figure it out.

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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. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. Future Economy. Future Thinking. That needs to change.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

Most leaders aren’t CEOs. One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer. For example, consider the story of a middle manager whose boss, one of the most respected people in the company, gave him some tough feedback that most people wouldn’t have the courage to give.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

If the operation being closed or downsized is large or historically important to the company, the CEO should make at least one visit. Other executives — the division manager or the head of the business unit — should be visible from beginning to end. Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Set the tone.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2011

In it Sonnenfeld noted that while some aging CEOs exited gracefully while they still enjoyed wide acclaim, many hung on too long, reluctant to face their own mortality. As Bloomberg's third term wears on, and wears thin, CEOs and other leaders would do well to heed its lessons. Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D.

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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. Managing Carbon and Energy. However, it’s a bit easier for the brand CEOs to stay focused on the long term when some of the maisons are three centuries old.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2015

It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. A year after that documentary, I had the opportunity to interview Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford to learn how to build and sustain a culture where people would want to work with and for you. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love.

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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. Task management. around its introduction.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote. .”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Five years earlier, when he’d stepped into his role, he’d been focused on growing the company that his father, Eric — the previous CEO — had founded. Lance sighed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Why merely manage the channel when you can start filling it? 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. Think of the power!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is a point often hammered home by Harvard Business School professor and former Medtronic CEO Bill George, who is a vocal advocate for what he calls “ True North Groups.” Leadership Managing yourself' These are gatherings of peers and mentors with whom we can share.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal. “We must extend beyond the creation of new technologies, to also include their broad dissemination and deep absorption, in order to prosper from new technologies.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 26, 2013

Marshall Goldsmith has been nominated for the Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker Award for 2013. Bob asked, “Why is it that you can shoot pool, but you can’t hammer nails?” What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. Deming is the core of our management.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

An employee of Haier, the Chinese manufacturer, told us that CEO Zhang Ruimin once shut down production after he found minor dents and scratches on appliances that were coming off a manufacturing line. He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Several years ago I sat down with the CEO of a fast-growing retail business. I asked the CEO, whom I’ll call Mike, about the secret of his company’s rapid growth. Without a hammer, we’re more likely to think of a shoe as a good tool to get a nail pounded into the wall. His answer blew me away. “Say no!”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

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