Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2013

Develop high performance teams using a solution-focused, evidence-based model; Learn facilitative and managerial leadership of teams; Use effective prevention and intervention methods to address challenging team member behaviors; Identify steps to create “buy in” for the goals and objectives from people who are outside the team.

Team Building 124

Team Building Team Class Committee 124

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

I ask clients to do so without using the words: ‘technology,’ ‘sales,’ and ‘solutions.’ Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. Be sure that all sectors of the organization participate. The Visioning committee should represent all strata of the firm.

Mission Statement 81

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 81

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

The topic in the Executive Committee meeting turned to Europe. The technology company, Alentix*, was doing well and growing annually at the rate of about 15%. I looked around the room at the silent senior leadership of Alentix, all of whom had privately complained to me about Jean''s performance in recent weeks.

Leadership 11

Leadership Committee CFO Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The right to win is the ability to enter or participate in any competitive market with the reasonably justified belief that you will succeed and create value. CDS starts with what you as a company do best – better than anyone else – and builds from that internal base of strength in making market participation choices.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Seven years ago, Bank of America launched Neighborhood Builders ®, a program that provides grants and, more importantly, leadership training to managers of "high-potential" non-profit organizations in the communities where the bank does business. The result has been a clear success. It is both local and national.

Case Study 15

Case Study Banking Participative Training 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Gaps like these are never solved by turning culture over to a Chief Culture Officer or pulling together culture committees. Likewise, inspirational leadership, the repetition of value statements, and letting people be themselves are important, but they are by-products of a healthy culture, not the drivers of one.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

When I ask, "How will this fit into your leadership strategy?" What do you mean, 'leadership strategy'? If a high-potential program is not part of a well-conceived strategy for leadership development, your main result is going to be a terrific program for training the future leaders of your competition. Come give us one!"

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Participative Training 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

When I ask, "How will this fit into your leadership strategy?" What do you mean, 'leadership strategy'? If a high-potential program is not part of a well-conceived strategy for leadership development, your main result is going to be a terrific program for training the future leaders of your competition. Come give us one!"

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Participative Training 15

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

As part of that, we encourage employees to participate in both formal and informal mentorship and sponsorship programs. Beginning with recruiting, we have introduced technology into our process in a way that helps expand the diversity of our candidate pool. The HR Digest: How do you communicate tough messages?

Innovation 96

Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 96

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented. In this model, data scientists are interlocutors and ambassadors between the autonomy oversight committee and the targets of implementation. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Cisco's councils and boards — a language that already suggests committees rather than goal-oriented projects — were supposed to speed things up and stimulate more innovation by creating cross-functional groups that could generate ideas about market-facing, solutions-oriented projects and organize across the organization to get them done.

Team 15

Team Sports Teamwork Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Drawing from our leadership experiences in two public-sector start-ups, we've come up with some approaches that other entrepreneurs in governments might find useful. With the availability of information technology as a facilitator, start-ups can be organized as virtual teams comprised of team members and experts drawn from across an agency.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Health Care Committee Information Technology 12

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Investigate those doing what you want to do. Their advice can be invaluable. Research prospects and contacts.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

As part of that, we encourage employees to participate in both formal and informal mentorship and sponsorship programs. Beginning with recruiting, we have introduced technology into our process in a way that helps expand the diversity of our candidate pool. The HR Digest: How do you communicate tough messages?

Innovation 40

Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

The expectation was that at the end of two years, the program participants would be promoted to the next level. 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.

Committee 13

Committee Case Study Learning-by-Doing Advice 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. Engaging institutional leadership in the outcomes or quality domain – representing the numerator of the value equation – is vital to begin measuring outcomes. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.

Resources 8

Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

There has been a subsequent improvement from 11% to 15% of female Executive Committee members, and 70% of companies in the top 20 now have at least one woman on their senior executive teams – up from 60% last year. And three companies still have men-only executive committees. In 2014, are we witnessing a trickle-down effect?

Execution 10

Execution Committee Diversity Operations 10

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. Is it because everything valuable in regard to leadership has already been discovered? I believe our world is suffering greatly due to a lack of leadership.

Blog 333

Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 333

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Thus, when Lay (CEO of Enron) was chairing a charity drive, Lay asked for 100% participation from the client’s firm, and the client reciprocated by edicting donations from his 200+ employees. I thought that demanding participation in one person’s pet cause was too punitive to the company’s employees and told the client so.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Chan School of Public Health, we look most closely at the leadership and negotiation issues, each of which offers opportunities as well as pitfalls that can be seen clearly even now. Those unable to participate in the system early are more likely to engage when their conditions are advanced and care is most expensive.

Health Care 8

Health Care Politics Absenteeism Ryan 8