Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 23, 2010

World class professors and a great culture. Take a look at the excellent video of Dr. Horniman discussing the importance of ethics in business and you’ll see what I mean. We gave a three hour presentation to students in the MBA for Executives program and briefly visited friends such as professors Marian Moore and Alec Horniman.

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Leadership Ethics McCarthy Godin 186

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A second study , from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, reminds us that this diversity should go beyond the traditional measures of gender, race and religion, and also take account of class diversity. What causes this dissonance between desires and reality?

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Diversity Class Reference Survey 68

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 19, 2010

Jason Pankau and I are excited about this opportunity to work with yet another world-class partner to take our work and ideas on The Connection Culture from our book Fired Up or Burned Out to a new audience. Organizations today are in desperate need of improving employee engagement and strategic alignment. why is everyone smiling?

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Film Video McCarthy Godin 207

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

” There is an implicit hope that when people – especially managers – hear great words, they will start to exhibit great behavior. I was shown a wonderful video on Enron’s ethics and integrity. It was one of the most smoothly professional presentations on ethics and values that I have ever seen.

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Ethics Pharmaceuticals PR Execution 137

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Surveys and statistics abound: only 22% of the public trust government.only 10% of employees trust management.50% 50% of a class is suspected of cheating. Authentic trust , the trust that''s broken or missing in most workplaces, fuels innovation and engagement, and ignites passions in those we lead. Related articles.

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Self-aware Bureaucracy Open-book Ethics 91

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

They are realizing if employees and managers are unhappy, they are going to leave. There needs to be a system for decision-making and development of leaders and managers as well as the reinforcement of values, directions and performance expectations. 3) Manage your managers and make them lead by example. No excuses.

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Newsletter Insurance Class Workshop 165

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Graham Weston, co-founder and CEO of Rackspace Managed Hosting, gives the keys to his BMW M3 convertible for a week to his top performing employees. Throughout the year employees nominate each other for five award categories: leadership, quality improvement, innovation, community involvement, etc. UPCOMING EVENTS AND CLASSES.

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Webinar Library Motivation Video 154

Lead on Purpose

JULY 7, 2009

Jim Holland’s guest post Leadership Lessons from a Kindergarten Class is the focus. July’s Leadership Carnivals brings together links to more than 25 fresh posts on topics such as accountability, talent management and succession planning. You’ll find posts from great bloggers such as Wally Bock and Chris Young.

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Leadership Development Development McCarthy Leadership 100

Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Admiral Clark created Value in the Navy’s culture by getting the Master Chiefs – the leaders of the enlisted class — to value the sailors under their command. He told everyone that he was proud to serve alongside them because they “serve a cause greater than self.” why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Servant Leader Bond Mentor McCarthy 356

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Graham Weston, co-founder and CEO of Rackspace Managed Hosting, gives the keys to his BMW M3 convertible for a week to his top performing employees. Throughout the year employees nominate each other for five award categories: leadership, quality improvement, innovation, community involvement, etc. UPCOMING EVENTS AND CLASSES.

Webinar 133

Webinar Library Motivation Video 133

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 22, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: As a product manager you need to focus on your products’ direction and success; you need to collect the right market input and turn it into great products. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.&# With the right attitude you can do both at the same time.

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Taylorism Taylor Ethics Godin 100

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: Most product managers do not “manage&# other people (in the traditional HR sense of the word). 6 Responses The Vision Quest « Where the Product Management Tribe Gathers , on December 22, 2009 at 8:51 am said: [.] » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 30, 2009

— The Product Management Perspective: The process of defining and creating successful products requires a commitment to understanding your markets and the role (or position) your products will play therein. As the product manager, you are in a unique position to improve your company’s standing (i.e.

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Power Fashion Taylorism Taylor 100

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. That might surprise some.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. Then expand your following with a world-class Web design. offers the broadest scope of recovery-funded business opportunities.

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Press Release Discount Education Transportation 157

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Over the summer, controversy engulfed Ashley Madison, the social network for married people seeking other partners, as hackers managed to extract a huge amount of private data from the company’s servers. Except in rare cases, the ethics of these decisions are never broached. So what can be done?

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Ethics Software Engineering Technology 8

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

You develop a first-class organization by winning hearts and minds. It’s HR’s Job: While HR certainly plays a significant role in the development and management of policies that can help or hurt culture, it’s the responsibility of everyone inside the organization to create and maintain a thriving culture. ” -Larry Fink.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 110

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2019

As technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have progressed, there has been considerable time and effort given to the ethics of this development. For instance, many companies are following the lead of the likes of Amazon and Uber in implementing artificial intelligence in their management of employees.

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Bond Technology Engineering Constraint 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

I don't want to say "dirty tricks," (whoops, I just said it) but Clorox certainly took an innovative approach to squelching P&G's innovative threat. An excellent business case could be made that Clorox's "Portland Massacre" was — dollar-for-dollar — its most strategically important (anti)marketing innovation that year.

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Innovation Franchising Ethics Disruptive Innovation 14

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

CO2

AUGUST 14, 2010

What is equally amazing is that is where much of the stuff is made too (so if their is pollution or a stretch in ethics of how something is made we might be able to turn a blind eye)! His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Freedman Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Taylorism 87

CO2

JANUARY 4, 2011

At the time our mission statement was, “ Anything for a buck, as long as it is legal and ethical. &# So we were paid to take a newsletter promotion Sid was doing for his business, we was a gifted writer (and a student of great copy writers), and attach a penny to each of the 18,000 newsletters. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Execution Blog Executive Coaching USP 88

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. But he wouldn't necessarily be world-class. That doesn't mean that the Corporate Superstar has no role to play in innovation. Look for the aliens.

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Equating "innovative" with new molecules misses the point: to develop clinically superior new medicines. The apparent business model of Big Pharma emphasizes the billions spent at great risk to find "innovative" and "breakthrough" new molecules that must be priced high to recover research costs that have become "unsustainable."

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Business Model Company Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The list includes the brightest stars in the firmament of management thinkers. A beacon of instrumentalism using its pulpit to proselytize an amoral view of the world, peddling theories that justify managers' selfish elitism, hinting that the value of values is merely to boost the bottom line. Asking, "what should I do?"

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Mintzberg Education Long-term Class 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

After I was quoted late last year in an article on the 10th anniversary of the Enron debacle , Fastow contacted me and offered to speak to the Financial Statement Accounting class I teach at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Fastow's message, an important one for all managers and potential managers, has two key points.

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Chief Financial Officer Finance Banking Class 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

A Leader’s Insights In “ Joy, Inc – How We Built a Workplace People Love ”, Richard Sheridan, cofounder and CEO of software design firm Menlo Innovations, delineates the practical steps he has taken to create and maintain a corporate culture that makes people “excited to come to work every day.” But the fictional company doesn’t stop there.

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Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

LDRLB

MARCH 10, 2014

The first way is leading … managing is different than doing to start with. People are doers and they’re doing things and then all of a sudden, they’re managing and they think that what they should do is just organize and coordinate and tell people to do what they used to do, and of course, that only gets you so far. You know this.

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Drucker Books Learning-by-Doing Leadership 74

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

So with such a track record of strategic innovation, why has Tesco been blindsided by the hard discounters like Germany’s Aldi and Lidl? But Messieurs Barnes and Heini, joint managing directors of Aldi UK, have added more fresh products and up-market lines at prices 15-20% below those of regular UK supermarkets. billion to $8.6

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage. Rising inequality and lack of economic opportunity for the middle class was a major theme. Finally, HBR editor Justin Fox lays out the economics of a higher minimum wage.

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Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The front page of yesterday's New York Times offered an in-depth account of how innovators in one industry are wrestling with that very question. they will not be offered positions in our class.". The piece reports on the radical new admissions policy at Virginia Tech Carilion , the country's newest medical school.

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Airlines Health Care Consensus Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. treating suppliers as partners).

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12