In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2012

Within these institutions, innovation is likely as overused and as meaningless a word as strategy. Johnson had launched Apple’s retail strategy and was the man behind the aggressive store expansion a decade ago. Ironically, innovation is the catalyst of organic growth. What should be done? Last year, J.C.

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 26, 2023

CMI’s chief technology officer Tavier Taylor presented the Champions category. How to prevent conflict in your distributed teams 5 strategies to make your difficult conversations easier Kind regards, Ian Like this article? These awards celebrate inspirational people who have made a significant impact. Why not share it.

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 26, 2023

CMI’s chief technology officer Tavier Taylor presented the Champions category. How to prevent conflict in your distributed teams 5 strategies to make your difficult conversations easier Kind regards, Ian Like this article? These awards celebrate inspirational people who have made a significant impact. Why not share it.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 1, 2012

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Maxwell In the Harvard Business Review article How CEOs Manage Time, the authors report CEOs spend a quarter of their work on people and relationships, another quarter on functional and business unit reviews, 16% on organization and culture, and 21% on strategy. Copyright CEOWORLD magazine 2023.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Further, if the rearguard strategy backfires, or is exposed by the press, this can amplify the damage to a company’s brand and leadership, not to mention potential legal consequences if a court can prove negligence. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2021

Richard Harbridge, chief technology officer at 2toLead says, “At its best, passion is rewarding and can make us more important and enthusiastic about our work.” Being passionate about your work does not necessarily bring happiness. What it does do is give you an avenue to keep engaged and be a better performer. .

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 21, 2022

These three strategies can help keep your operations on time and budget. Workflow bottlenecks can negatively impact everything from employee satisfaction to the bottom line. Avoiding the snowball effect that comes with logjams means creating more efficient workflows that keep the organization moving in the right direction.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 27, 2022

The severity of the news varies by industry and role (mid-career technology and healthcare workers are reported to be leaving most). The conversation around the Great Resignation is not letting up and for good reason.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 26, 2022

Asking for Referrals is often a completely underutilized strategy as part of business development for an organization. If the referral strategy is incorporated, it is often done well by only a few individuals but never across the whole business.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 1, 2023

We’ve heard it for decades. We have been ‘on the brink’ of a clean industrial revolution seemingly forever. It never came. Now it’s here and, as always, driven by government policy. The threat from climate change has been the subject of conversation, activism, and often aggressive debate for decades.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 30, 2022

As a leader, when you have a lot on your plate – whether it’s work or family responsibilities– it can feel like things are spiraling out of control. In my own life, one of the most challenging periods was when I was caring for a deathly ill family member. What I discovered during this experience […].

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic” – so said management guru Peter Drucker, in a truism that speaks volumes in a post-Covid age. The US labor market stands at a crossroads right now, with new and volatile crosswinds – including surging job openings, […].

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

Kathleen Goodman, Director, Strategy, Planning and Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. I already found three things I''m planning to try at work on Monday!” You want a powerful team? You want to be a great leader? & Author, GenuineCuriosity.com.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We know that gender equality remains a huge problem for businesses, but for real change to occur, the drive has to come from the top. So, firstly, why is this important? The case for diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace is considerable, not only from a moral perspective, but because it simply makes good […].

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Purpose has become a buzzword, with many organizations only paying lip service to the idea without putting any real effort into fulfilling it. Purpose is simply an intent, and without action to back it up it’s not enough to create real change.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Human skills, often referred to as soft skills, define how we engage with others and often include leadership, communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving, to name a few. Many other cognitive and socio-emotional skills come into play, and these skills often provide the foundation pivotal for high emotional Intelligence or EQ.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 6, 2023

The things that happen to us in life are often not so much about what’s taking place in the moment, but about placing us on a path to lead the way for others. It would be years before I realized the truth of that. I was born in 1954.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 19, 2022

There’s conflict in change. And right now, we’re going through a large change, composed of many smaller transitions. Whether we’re talking about national politics, social and economic models, individuals or companies, so much of our world is in transition…and conflict.

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Whether you’re back in an office setting, following a hybrid schedule, or still logging into work from home, you’re likely familiar with one of the more thorny aspects of what it means to be a working person: how to navigate interpersonal dynamics with co-workers. Unsurprisingly, this is one of the most common problems we hear […].

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CEO Insider

APRIL 18, 2021

CEOs need to understand that the mainstream media news sources that they and their employees consume can kill them – or save them. That’s the fundamental insight of a powerful new study about the impact of watching either Sean Hannity’s news show Hannity or Tucker Carlson’s Tucker Carlson Tonight: one saved lives, and the other […].

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Recent debates surrounding President Biden’s plan for government spending on infrastructure has refocused attention on public debt, but the sleeping and dangerous debt giant is really private debt. American households were drowning in debt before the COVID-19 crisis, and now they’re deluged by it. Household debt today totals $17.5

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

Kathleen Goodman, Director, Strategy, Planning and Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. I already found three things I'm planning to try at work on Monday!” You want a powerful team? You want to be a great leader? Read this book and change your world.”

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CEO Insider

JUNE 9, 2021

As you read the title of this article, I know this may feel somewhat counter intuitive. We have used the word when leading and managing “change” for decades. When instigating a project we expect things to develop from one place to another or introducing something new to a system or process and maybe to take […].

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For more than 20 years, Jeff Bezos fought against the entropy inherent in large organizations. He demanded that Amazon always act as a startup, that it would always be Day 1 at Amazon. As he said in his 1997 shareholder letter, “Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by […].

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CEO Insider

MARCH 7, 2021

Within only three months of the Pandemic, the Wall Street Journal published an article “The Average Tenure of CMOs Falls Again” citing an average tenure in 2019 at 41 months and the median at 30. That was compared to an average tenure of 76 months (median 53) for their CEO counterparts. I can’t imagine the […].

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CEO Insider

APRIL 21, 2021

Hiring the right person is always a bit of a gamble. They’ll either become a valued part of the team that offers insights and collaboration, or they’ll slow down innovation and disrupt the customer experience. Increasing the odds of finding the right people is vitally important because most ventures survive or wither due to the […].

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CEO Insider

APRIL 8, 2021

With all the management tools and theories available, you’d think we’d have management down to an exact science. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. The largest Gallup survey of employee engagement showed that 87 percent of staff are not engaged, which, needless to say, is a huge drain on productivity. The number one reason staff gave? […].

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CEO Insider

MARCH 25, 2021

It’s no secret that we all have toxic people at work and in our personal lives. It seems like no matter how great our job is, or what a wonderful life we’re living, there’s always that one person who tries to bring us down. I’m convinced that, nine times out of ten, it’s to […].

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CEO Insider

APRIL 23, 2021

When it comes to disruptions in our personal life (such as the death of a loved one, getting divorced or finding out that we are suffering from a disease), the attitude with which we approach such setbacks can play a key role in how successful we are in overcoming them. The same is true for […].

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CEO Insider

MARCH 13, 2023

It is estimated that 70% – 90% of the new products that come on the market each year fail to produce profits. When profits are not there, the product does not have a reason to exist. The numbers speak for themselves, and the percentage of products that fail is literally huge.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

While technology can certainly improve operational performance, the idea that it can replace a sound strategy is a dangerous delusion. Tronc investor Patrick Soon-Shiong also asserts that the technology will allow the company to make thousands of videos a day. That’s not a strategy, it’s a mirage.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 20, 2022

Despite the pandemic, executive recruiters face one of the strongest candidate markets in the past twenty years. You have more negotiating power than ever for executive compensation. When it comes to executive equity compensation, do you know that there are differences between employee equity from a corporation and an LLC?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. ” The immediate result has been a world increasingly awash with platforms and, if you aren’t operating one, many will label you a strategy Luddite. All the technology that powers this disruptive business model has been built in-house over the past 17 years.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

In a recent article , I suggested that the role of the CIO needs to shift from Chief Information Officer to a Chief Innovation Officer, due to the massive, rapid, multiple technology-driven transformations that are occurring today. The Amazon strategy I described above has not happened — yet.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Ellison will remain chairman of the board and will still serve as chief technology officer. Two equals running a company does not appear to be a strategy for success. So while co-CEOs as equals seems like a bad strategy, an extremely large power imbalance between co-CEOs isn’t great either. Can co-CEOs work?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The following steps can be used to successfully manage the transition to new leadership: Determine the strategy for the startup and identify CEO candidates’ experience executing a similar strategy. I’ve seen founders stay on successfully as chief technology officer, chief marketing officer, or as a board member.

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