Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 3, 2016

Do you have “still face” managers in your organization? By still face managers, I mean supervisors whose lack of emotion makes it difficult for them to connect and to get people fired up. Sitting in the audience was a CEO who recognized that she had a still face manager in her organization. the amygdala).

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Everyone watched as CEO Tony Hayward made blunder after blunder while their crude killed. How is it possible for three months of crisis management ineptitude to occur in an organization the size of BP with a product as environmentally toxic as oil? There is not an absence of fear, but the management of fear. They are prepared.

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CEO Crisis Leadership Risk Management 137

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The sudden, unexpected and potentially catastrophic event that threatens a business is a CEO’s greatest challenge. Everyone watched as CEO Tony Hayward made blunder after blunder while their crude killed. You’d think a company drilling on the ocean’s floor would be adept in risk management planning.

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CEO Crisis Leadership Risk Management 92

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A proficient board is a guiding light, offering leadership and oversight to fuel the realization of organizational objectives. A formidable board delineates clear expectations and periodically reviews the performance of the CEO and other apex leaders. How can a board be high-performing?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

This may sound harsh, but the truth often is… I’ve witnessed far too many people in positions of leadership that wouldn’t recognize an opportunity if it hit them squarely in the face. If you cannot recognize, attract, and acquire opportunity you should not be in a leadership position. That said, don’t be guilty of moving to slowly.

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Due Diligence Metrics Competitive Advantage Rogers 167

CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The post The Biggest Leadership Mistake You Can Make appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. When you make everyone feel as though they belong and avoid creating unnecessary divisions, you open the doors to communication, cooperation, innovation, and motivation. Most of all, you […]. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021.

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Cooper Magazine Leadership Motivation 101

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

While I rarely meet a CEO who is completely comfortable with turning the hiring process over to HR, most of them still seem to acquiesce and do exactly that…&# Who should do the hiring?&# is a question that more CEOs should spend time pondering. Outsourced recruiting is very effective and affordable if managed properly.

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Insurance Bottom-up CEO Compliance 353

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ability. Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ability.

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work. Let’s consider a few examples.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The manager or leader who demands perfection creates an environment of fear. Bill Wooditch Wooditch is the founder and CEO of Wooditch Enterprises, a risk-management and. Some companies create systems and embrace the theory of their system as a way to avoid failure.

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Succession How To Open-book Learning-by-Doing 116

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. Leadership Practices to Watch. What are a few leadership behaviors that destroy organizations by making them less agile? Northern Command.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 21, 2011

Last year I met with Jim Goodnight, SAS Institute’s founder and CEO, to learn more about his leadership and SAS Institute’s culture. Jim Goodnight, co-founder and CEO of SAS Institute, is not one of them. Everyone there knows that Goodnight, in addition to his CEO duties, spends time writing code like many of them.

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Software Conference Long-term Entrepreneur 287

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

If current employees are hesitant to talk, HR should also be conducting exit interviews , particularly in high-risk occupations like healthcare, to identify any areas that may put the company, its customers and consumers at risk. HR can facilitate discussions and task forces for planning and next steps.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture? Jim Goodnight, co-founder and CEO of SAS Institute, is not one of them. Michael Lee Stallard is president of E Pluribus Partners, a leadership training and coaching firm.

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Conference Bottom-up Software Long-term 261

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

PG&E could still have conducted intelligent risk management in the interest of its own shareholders. • Federal Emergency Management Agency's post-Katrina updated material on incident management systems , which includes free online training. The choice facing you is how to act to measure and proactively manage this risk.

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Risk Management Management Supply Chain Metrics 10

Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2020

The trend towards consolidation in industry has become a threat to any business whose leadership has a desire to maintain its own identity and strategic path. If you own, lead, or manage an organization, acknowledge that the primary task of any business is the generation of new customers. How To Avoid The Digital Marketing Parasite.

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Industry Organization Real Estate Outsourcing 119

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We took a risk once, and it didn’t work out. That was caused by previous management. Examples: This company reflects the character of its CEO. The wise CEO is one who listens to others, surrounds himself-herself with smart people and fosters a spirit of teamwork. This hasn’t been our lucky year. Do research.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The same planning process that nurtures Crisis Preparedness can and must also accommodate for Crisis Management. The company’s swift recall of product from the shelves and the timely response of the company CEO were part of the crisis plan that was in place well ahead of the tragedy. Product Recall, Tylenol.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

92% of all business mistakes may be attributed to poor management decisions. 70% of corporate CEOs think that business is too much focused on the short-term. The average person and organization changes 71% per year. The mastery of change is to benefit from it, rather than become a victim of it.

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 90

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

There are a variety of places where corporations and boards look for potential CEOs, but the leagues of management consulting generally isn’t one of them. So why should a company consider hiring a management consultant to be their CEO? Did you find any characteristics that set effective consultants-to-CEOs apart?

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 12, 2019

Inspirational leadership wisdom came awhile back from Bahram Akradi, the CEO of Life Time Fitness. Once you've encountered a second way of seeing things, you're more likely to entertain the possibility of a third and fourth way, too.

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Magazine CEO Leadership Risk Management 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. The CEO is made stronger with a good C-suite team. Those vital employees in the business world might include the IT guy, the receptionist, the mailroom manager, the ethics adviser and the secretary to the Board of Directors. Be mentored by others.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 63

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2019

Inspirational leadership wisdom came awhile back from Bahram Akradi, the CEO of Life Time Fitness. Once you've encountered a second way of seeing things, you're more likely to entertain the possibility of a third and fourth way, too.

Magazine 50

Magazine CEO Leadership Risk Management 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

companies, the guidelines contain helpful (although not entirely novel or innovative) recommendations such as compensating outside directors with stock, giving non-executive directors unfettered access to management, and discouraging the practice of earnings guidance. Intended to strengthen corporate governance at U.S.

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CEO Groupthink Sharpe Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

As a recent example, a simple background check would have saved the Yahoo board the trouble of ousting Scott Thompson , the company's fourth CEO in five years, because he falsely claimed a computer science degree. Leadership and culture are key drivers of behavior. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. What's Your Risk Attitude?

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Management Banking Committee Risk Management 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Testifying unhappily before America’s Congress, Volkswagen of America CEO Michael Horn adamantly and defiantly identified the true authors of his company’s disastrous “ defeat device ” deception: “This was not a corporate decision. No wonder Chairman and CEO Martin Winterkorn had to resign.

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Engineering Management Software Review 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2023

The ban would would elevate the cybersecurity conversation to the CEO, the CFO, and the board, and potentially end the practice of scapegoating CISOs when a breach happens. The White House is considering a ban on ransomware payments, which could change the chief information and security officer (CISO) job.

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CFO CEO Training Information 11

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Provide leadership. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. All members of top management have Business Development responsibilities. Business development.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

I was reminded of this lesson a couple months back when I heard a story about executive Paul Anderson from one of his former colleagues, Paula Rosput Reynolds (former Chair and CEO of Safeco, now CEO of PreferWest). Paula encouraged me to talk with Paul because he “is the real thing when it comes to global business leadership.”

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CEO Advice Workshop Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. Along with fixing the sales culture, the bank will have to address these critical management issues to prevent the next scandal.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Are these huge major financial institutions not just too big to fail, their leaders “too big to jail” (as some critics charge), but also “too big to manage”? Poor controls over risk and valuations. CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. trillion in assets ,$1.1

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Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance. But too often, assessments of leadership are haphazard and narrow.

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Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? Not rising costs.

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