Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

So, why do most companies go about picking their next generation mired in the past? The truth is that companies that only choose wise, experienced people for this task of succession are mired in myopia. It is a company looking into the future like a horse with blinders. To begin, let’s start with a premise I hear over and over.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Employees are wondering, “If the company is willing to dump me at its convenience, why shouldn’t I dump the company at my convenience?”

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In our leadership development training, we like to start out by asking people to list as many characteristics as possible about their former leaders that they both abhorred and adored. Trains, develops, and grows their people. Being deliberate about your leadership development will improve your results!

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Thin Difference

AUGUST 8, 2019

Creating a coaching culture – where managers intentionally grow and develop employees – isn’t necessarily about providing a warm and fuzzy place to work. While it might take time and effort to shift to a coaching culture, you’re also investing in the future of your company. Building a Coaching Culture.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

A key survey revealed that 59% of companies invest in outsourcing to cut down their expenses. Apart from its cost-cutting benefits, outsourcing helps companies focus on their core business. Companies are also starting to embrace cloud services to improve their outsourcing. billion in 2018. More Flexible Contracts.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Internal partnerships include direct reports, co-workers and managers. ” Their ideal leader is a person who develops “win-win” relationships and is sensitive to their needs for personal growth and development. Leaders will need to develop skills in negotiation and “win-win” relationships.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

Having lived in and with off-the-grid communities in Latin America, in Nicaragua and Colombia, I had seen and felt the impact of low Internet and basic telecommunications access, especially when it comes to communicating with potential employers. For instance, there is a company sells SMS to employers only to schedule interviews, not recruit.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. It comes from the work my clients do. They are amazing.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

In the 1980s, I appeared on a videotape that was widely distributed as part of a leadership development course for IBM managers. They changed the company, and IBM made a remarkable comeback. I don’t know much about telecommunications – it just seemed obvious. They appreciate and value learning.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The biggest source of growth and increased opportunities in today's business climate lie in the way that individuals and companies work together. Here are some examples of Collaborations: Parties and consultants involved in taking a company public work together as a team. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

But how do we turn those feelings into real action to develop great, future-ready leaders? Hans Vestberg is the CEO of Verizon Communications, an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate with over 152,000 employees around the world. What Makes a Great Leader? To eliminate obstacles so my team can succeed.”.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 3, 2014

Greenberg , Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies headquartered in New York, presided over a firm of 58,000 people worldwide. Change Management Leadership Leadership Development Leading Change change leadership Change resilience Emotions' In 2001, Jeffery W. That’s what I think anyway. What do you think?

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The Practical Leader

JULY 18, 2011

In the past two decades companies like IBM focused so heavily on providing software and consulting support to their “big iron&# hardware that these services that were once Second Ring Support have migrated to the First Ring and now form their core business. But the obvious people to ask are your customers or internal groups you serve.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. A major aerospace company won a contract to put up a series of weather satellites.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. The vast majority of board members told us their companies are hiring in double-digits and across the globe. Are you and your company ready?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We found that concerns about innovation fall behind other issues for most directors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In a recent strategy meeting we attended with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up 27 times in 90 minutes. So most executives manage it according to their intuition. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco is an easy company to admire. The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device. Smartphones were becoming smarter. This was obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. To compete with this miraculous turnaround, Western companies, starting with Motorola, began to adopt Japanese methods. But what's happened in Japan?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

There’s a growing consensus that companies need strong, independent boards full of qualified directors if they are to sidestep risks and seize opportunities in our complex and dynamic international economy. since the index was first developed in 2008. But are the boards of these companies similarly “globalized”?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Important questions, such as who “owns” personal data and what responsibilities companies have as custodians of it, are hot topics of debate. If businesses are to continue using personal data to create value for themselves and for their customers, they will need to manage it as carefully as they would money, in four key ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Many wonder why an academy company like P&G, historically known for developing talent, did not, or was not able to, promote a successor from within its ranks. What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? We now see they are also struggling to do a good job managing their own talent responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. telecommunications carriers now compete fiercely on price as they try to win new customers. These companies are reducing prices because they believe that will boost their perceived value to consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

The episode is clearly are a rare misstep by a company whose obsession for delivering outstanding product functionality is legendary. Even a company with millions of fans needs to care deeply about their opinions. In parallel, Apple has made a series of small acquisitions of online mapping companies including Placebase in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

companies spend over $900 billion on their sales forces, which is three times more than they spend on all ad media. Yet, on average, companies deliver only 50% to 60% of the financial performance that their strategies and sales forecasts have promised. Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Because business is fraught with many risks and challenges, and because this journey isn’t right for everyone, I’ve developed some questions that will help you get more clarity so you can make better decisions for yourself when it comes to starting a business. We were actually slowly growing rich, but we felt pretty poor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

But corporate learning management systems remain slow, hard to use, and difficult to maintain. They’re getting in the way of employee development instead of supporting it. Consider, for example, the challenges that one telecommunications company faced with high turnover in its retail stores.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Nokia's recent burning platform travails serve as an object lesson to companies trying to navigate a rapidly-changing global economy. As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Attuned to the times, he or she has a stronger chance to uncover and release a company’s latent potential.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Last year Facebook became the second largest e-commerce company in Africa after Jumia, the industry leader. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. Online, geography does not protect a company from competition.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

For the first time after China's economic reforms began, CEO succession is threatening to become a major problem, particularly for globally competitive companies such as Haier, Huawei, and Lenovo. Indeed, the choices the founder-CEOs make may well reshape their companies as well as the Chinese economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Sophisticated sales organizations now have the ability to combine, sift, and sort vast troves of data to develop highly efficient strategies for selling into micromarkets. For a micromarket strategy to work, however, management must have the courage and imagination to act on the insights revealed by this type of analysis. counties.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

But we found that when empowering leadership is also about mentoring and supporting employee development, this can create a trusting relationship. The empowering leaders who did see better performance on routine tasks were the ones who developed good relationship with their employees and were more trusted.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Over the past several years a major shift in customer behavior has reshaped the nature of many markets and is leading to profound changes in how companies attempt to serve those markets. Companies in these industries are responding in surprising ways. Skills in developing partnerships that cross boundaries are critical.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The art of endurance can be studied in some of the world’s oldest companies. The company has been around for over 250 years. It started life as an ironworks company, pursued vertical integration by entering coal, eventually moved into pressed steel wheels before diversifying into front wheel drive technology and beyond.

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