Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2019

Whilst leading the organisation does often come with a title – like CEO or Managing Director – leading a group of people does not. Leadership is “the action of leading a group of people or an organisation”, and there are two important things to note: Firstly, leadership does not necessarily require an official title.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 23, 2023

CMI’s CEO, Ann Francke OBE, gave her expert advice in The Times this week about planning and scheduling holidays carefully to prevent important people from being away at the same time. And the summer season often presents a significant management challenge: managing time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

The term was coined by James McGregor Burns, the Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. Most leaders aren’t CEOs. Nudge into discomfort Ginny Rometty, the CEO of IBM, is right when she says, “Growth and comfort don’t coexist.” The following is a guest piece by Bill Treasurer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

I believe that Steve Jobs was among the best CEOs of this generation because he created entirely new categories six times in a decade, and built the largest company market cap ever. It is the very opposite of the supportive and nurturing Theory Y management pioneered by MIT's Douglas McGregor over a half century ago.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Sandberg and Girl Scouts of the USA CEO Anna Maria Chávez outline why the word needs eradication, pointing to its historically gendered use to put down and socially alienate girls. The duo explains that males are rarely described as bossy when they push to lead.

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