Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Tony Mayo

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences?

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

What’s the role of NEDs, CEOs and Government in creating inclusive workplaces? How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? We’ve got an exclusive interview with Simon here ! How to close the say-do gap and tap into hidden talent? Find out more and reserve your spot on the livestream here.

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Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? More on Gandhi here.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

11 2,410 220 2,346 Brian Tracy Personal Development Professional Speaker, Author, Success Expert, CEO of Brian Tracy International¬ô 12 254,000 20,600 1,064,000 Charles Duhigg Personal Development New York Times reporter ([link] ) and author of The Power of Habit ([link] ). Former chief evangelist of Apple. Who Are You Serving?

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Founder and CEO Jim goodnight noticed that many of his people were talking about the potential of layoffs because everyone else in the industry was laying off employees. As Simon Sinek wrote about in his book Leaders Eat Last , Bob Chapman, the CEO of Barry Wehmiller, decided on furloughs for his employees. One of those is SAS.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Headlined by Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, Tipping Point) and joined by Simon Sinek (Start with Why?) – who stole the show, Mitch Joel (Six Pixels of Separation), Nilofer Merchant (Rubicon Consulting), and Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney), the day showcased some amazing ideas, great presenters and inspiration to spare.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

. “I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO. Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. But, with his company recently sold, Simon was considering retirement. Each year, over one hundred CEOs retire from the S&P 1000.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. They don’t need to be part of every discussion, but CEOs do need to make pricing and new product development their priority.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Simon McGill/Getty Images. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Clayton Christensen and others argue that an incumbent’s failure has little to do with the newness or complexity of the technology. In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2011

My crystal ball devoted to the intersection of business and digital technology brought forth six predictions for 2012. I predict at least one big-company CEO will walk away from the on-premises status quo in 2012. There will be at least one instance of a science fiction technology becoming reality. They are: 1. I am sure of it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. How: "Because we think differently, we marry cutting-edge technology with human intuition and beautiful design to create products that look and function like no other." This isn't my opinion. What: "We sell phones. Want to buy one?".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

That may be because I am a founding CEO. ” My partner David and I developed the idea for our company 10 years ago, and I took over as CEO several years ago. Of course, a CEO following that approach is less likely to delegate and more likely to be entrenched in work all the time. ” I know how that feels.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

This question is relevant for CEOs and government leaders alike. Jim Collins and I studied this question in our book Great by Choice in which we analyzed CEOs and companies that led successfully in such a world. The successful CEOs in our study displayed an odd behavior that we labeled " productive paranoia."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Anecdotally, that emphasis on finding purpose in our workplaces and in the companies we patronize — or as Simon Sinek might phrase it, starting with “why” — is redefining the way innovative companies like TOMS , Zappos , Whole Foods , and Google attract and retain talent.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Forbes I have truly had my fill of let’s-use-technology-to-fix-U.S.-health-care Andy O’Connell No Limits The Trans-Everything CEO New York Magazine The highest-paid female CEO in America, earning $38 million last year, is Martine Rothblatt, the founder of United Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

A family CEO can be a valuable resource since they have grown up in the business, socializing in the firm’s network and becoming more familiar with the industry dynamics and the power distribution among competitors. Yet this finding is not true for all family CEOs. Leverage your trust-based external network.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. How: "Because we think differently, we marry cutting-edge technology with human intuition and beautiful design to create products that look and function like no other." This isn't my opinion. What: "We sell phones. Want to buy one?".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The number-one attribute CEOs look for in their incoming workforce (according to an IBM survey of more than 1,500 CEOs across 33 industries and 60 countries) is not discipline, integrity, intelligence, or emotional intelligence. As Peter Sims, CEO and founder of Parliament, Inc., It’s creativity. Seek out unfamiliarity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

” In his book, Start with Why , Simon Sinek says that purpose should provide direction when deciding a company’s future: “Instead of asking, ‘WHAT should we do to compete?’ There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps? The only shock there was that the technology retailer, Carphone Warehouse, did even worse.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Indian CEOs and policy-makers inject this word into practically every sentence they utter. Invention is a novel idea or new technology that can be patented or copyrighted as intellectual property (IP). Dr. Simone Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange Media. But IP on its own cannot generate business returns.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Simons—after all, he’s been around for decades, earning and donating vast amounts of money, generally enjoying life (despite the accidental deaths of two of his five adult children), and giving Dos Equis’s “ most interesting man in the world ” a serious run for his money. Generational issues'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Nick Simon* switched careers in his late 20s and entered a two-year management rotation program at a telecom company. Lisa Su* has worked at a Boston-based technology company for six years. Applications then go to a committee, which makes a recommendation to the CEO who makes the final decision. Not his real name.

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