Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

It''s the core message of Nice Companies Finish First by Peter Shankman: "Being a selfish bastard who doesn''t believe the rules apply to you simply won''t get you very far." Loyalty (360 Loyalty–loyal to what works for the whole company and for all good employees.), You can treat people any way you want.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2016

I N TODAY'S ECONOMY of volatility and velocity, the lifespan of a Fortune 500 company has plummeted from an average 50 years to a mere fifteen. When constant disruption is the new normal, how do companies succeed? Here are five key ways that winning companies stay on top: 1. Great companies recognize disruption and face it.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2011

Hay Group, a global management consulting firm, released its 2010 Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20 list. The study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies develop current and future leaders. See the complete PDF summary.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s about a wildly successful company that went off course. You know this company. government scrutinizing it for monopolistic practices, but the company was also coming under fierce attack for investing in its archrival, Apple. Inside the company, morale was at an all-time low. Its profit margin is higher than Google’s.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Jim Shaffer, author of The Leadership Solution , believes that top companies are guided by these three best principles: They value their people. Everyone says it but not everyone lives it. Consultant John Guaspari says, “Our people have to jump in because there isn’t time to wait for ‘the answer’ to come from on high.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Using a very different approach, companies like Yahoo and IBM, once pioneers in remote work, reconsidered their remote work policies and brought team members back into the office to preserve their corporate culture. Hold regularly scheduled video conferences, company-wide updates, and virtual town halls to help bridge the physical gap.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

Source: The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change II. Jason Jennings on having a clear destination: “Not having a clear destination means never knowing the steps you need to take to get to where you want to go, never knowing if you’ve arrived or if you’ve achieved what you set out to accomplish.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I IN 1982, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman released In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. In spite of the times, some companies were pursuing excellence in the execution of their missions. Consider the timelessness of these key qualities: Eight Characteristics of Excellent Companies. Perhaps not.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

As founder and CEO of Chobani, a top-selling yogurt company, he “operates on a simple fundamental principle, that we do well by doing good.” He has given his employees 10 percent of the company and has donated millions to fight food insecurity, while ensuring 30 percent of his workforce are immigrants and refugees.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Upstanding : How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth by Frank A. Calderoni discovered that character is just as vital for companies as it is for individuals. In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

W HEN A CEO first assumes their position or joins a new company, they’re often quick to make changes to the executive team, creating a group of trusted advisors who will drive their strategic agenda. Companies are also facing heightened expectations about their role in society. You have to put the company ahead of each business.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

Today’s leading-edge companies are taking complete ownership of outcomes and experiences for customers. Operating Beyond: Rethink How Their Companies Operate. But as leading-edge companies are discovering, some ecosystems work better than others. Organizing Beyond: Constantly Reinvent How Their Company Is Organized.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

When Facebook made "Move fast and break things" an informal company motto, it fueled a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. Leadership experts Frances Frei and Anne Morriss argue that this belief is deeply flawed—and that it keeps you from building a great company.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

As opposed to: Until recently, the greatest competitive advantage went to companies that controlled distribution channels, had hard assets on the largest scale, or had established brands or patents. In other words, it’s more about what a company does than what it has. Most traditional companies don’t think big enough.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A lot of self-talk is intended to keep us safe and to be considerate of others’ feelings, but it doesn’t prioritize what will raise productivity, satisfaction, and growth for ourselves, others, and the project or company. She was formerly with McKinsey, working with MNCs and local companies in the US, China, and India.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

a fairly notorious email encryption company both provoking concerns from the NSA but also putting privacy on the map as “the marketing gorilla of the Internet.” When I joined the company, it was late delivering the hardware/software card to the partner. I had just come off my first CEO assignment with Pretty Good Privacy, Inc.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Myth #1: Build a Billion Dollar Company. I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. So how do billion dollar companies get built? I used to think a valuation was kind of like the stock price of a public company.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2020

W HAT differentiates companies? So, what differentiates one company from another? Years ago, I would have said it was people who make the difference and separate companies. Certain companies may think they have the "best people," but the truth is, great people are everywhere—the planet is filled with them.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

A LL COMPANIES begin with a vision. works with early-stage companies developing innovative, high-impact life science products and services. Individuals or partners develop a plan and iterate as new information arises. It takes an enormous amount of their time, forces them to commit, and requires some degree of funding.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The most successful companies adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) at the same time. Many companies are stuck with digital transformations that are not moving the needle. There are no quick fixes but there is a playbook.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

An automobile company might have bought a supplier of its batteries, or created its own dealerships. In construction companies, for example, this would seem to be the capacity to secure contracts and choose the right subcontractors. Networking need not be based on any formal structural arrangement; sometimes it just happens.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2023

Source: The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. No institution—religious, military, educational, political or business—can be great unless it has a great leader at the top who develops leaders at all levels of the organization.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

You may value the team and company putting time and resources into successful projects, but don’t want to see the company waste money on failing ones. Making sure this project is successful is important to me, and I think it’s critical that the company makes good use of limited resources.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Danforth , founder of the Ralson Purina Company on giving your life away: “Our most valuable possessions are those which can be shared without lessening: those which, when shared, multiply. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Statistics surround us, and leaders need to have a good grasp of numbers’ roles within their companies. The decisions that you make as a leader can have an outsized impact on your company. His new book is The Data Mirage: Why Companies Fail to Actually Use Their Data (Business Expert Press, January 22, 2021).

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Barney and Carlos Julio Data indicates that most strategic efforts to change a company’s culture fail. So how do companies succeed in this endeavor? These actions inspired stories that became company legends, repeated in every department and handed on to new employees. But there is a method to his maverick style.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

. ☙ A lot of times people think creating companies is going to be fun. Particularly if you’re the CEO of the company, you actually have a distillation of all the worst problems in the company. ☙ Fundamentally, if you don’t have a compelling product at a compelling price, you don’t have a great company.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2021

In The Imagination Machine , authors Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller say that “For the sake of restoring the vitality of our companies, and for the societies these companies serve, we must better harness imagination.”. “We Some companies invent something and live off that for decades leading to stasis and eventual decline. “To

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Leading Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

I’ve observed companies panicking and doing anything they can to manage short-term cash—and destroying hard-earned relationships at lightning speed. Companies are making bad decisions for good reason. They will also remember the companies that took advantage of the crisis by gouging on price.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. The Power of Trust : How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It by Sandra J. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

They built into a multi-million dollar company before selling it to Sigma Alimentos. Learning all he could from the cheese manufacturers he worked for in both Mexico and the United States, he eventually started Mexican Cheese Producers with his partner David Webster. Lean shares the ups and downs of his journey in The House that Cheese Built.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

Immelt states in Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company : The best leaders absorb fear. This was the case with GE Digital, a new subsidiary created to provide software and Industrial Internet of Things services to industrial companies. There are only a handful of leaders in any company who are true systems leaders.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader. For the first time, Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own, as he matured into the CEO it needed.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Yet many times, companies struggle with sharing and aligning functional plans. I N BUSINESS, as in sports, the aspect that distinguishes the best teams from the mediocre teams comes down to collaboration. Too often, managers put their heads down and focus only on their own departments.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

With disruptive creation, “the new comes at the expense of the old and its associated companies and jobs, creating a win-lose or winner-takes-most economic outcome. In contrast, nondisruptive innovation is “achieved without disrupting a preexisting market and its associated companies and jobs.”

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JUNE 25, 2020

By examining some of the most inventive companies on the planet—Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft—we can learn valuable lessons to apply in our own situation. To continually turn new ideas into reality, “the tech giants have had to rethink the way a company is run. Nadella returned the company to Day One.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

airline companies have pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the biggest cause of outages, even as the FAA has fired back at airlines. And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company.

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