Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2018

Yet, it’s not the same in every case—likability does not necessarily equal followership when it comes to leadership. A leader’s disposition needs to be in sync with the culture of a company. Would that same CHRO be as successful at a firm where the culture was more about innovation and less about continuity?

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CO2

JUNE 14, 2023

Learn how to break out of the mental mold and tap into the 75% of questions you are not asking with our leadership guidance. Good Leaders Ask Questions More Often Than They Answer Them The paradox of leadership is that the reasons why people get promoted into leadership are different from the reasons that they succeed as leaders.

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CO2

JUNE 14, 2023

Learn how to break out of the mental mold and tap into the 75% of questions you are not asking with our leadership guidance. Good Leaders Ask Questions More Often Than They Answer Them The paradox of leadership is that the reasons why people get promoted into leadership are different from the reasons that they succeed as leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Okay, so you founded the company, but does that mean you should also be the chief executive? Which hat, or hats do you wear? What does a CEO really do anyway?

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 11, 2022

When GE replaced Jack Welch there was a three-man race for the position between Robert Nardelli, James McNerny, and eventual successor Jeff Immelt. For these people, the move to other companies coincided with a salary increase of around 33% on average. “The possibility of a promotion is a carrot to work harder.” on average.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I introduced Jim to Great Leadership readers a few weeks ago with a post called "A Four-wheel-drive Diamond in the Rough Leadership Model". Note: today, 10/28/2011, is the 4 year anniversary of Great Leadership. He inherited a company that had developed 20 years of cultural focus on fit and efficiency. Approaches?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

You may have the best materials, the newest innovations, the most creative product –but those resources are meaningless without the core of your business: your employees. “My job as a leader is to make sure that everybody in the company has great opportunities and they feel they are having meaningful impact to the good of society.”

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

 This week I've got a unique and excellent resource from Fast Company that I would like to point you to.  Enjoy!   The Resource:    Fast Company's 30 Second MBA What it is:   30 Second MBA is a unique video resource that in some ways resembles a virtual university.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

 Today I would like to highlight an exciting daily leadership resource that will keep you abreast of the latest news and happenings you need to know to be the best leader possible.  Enjoy! .  Enjoy!

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

 Today I would like to shift gears and take a look ahead at what the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogging community sees in store for us in 2011.  Last week I paused for a moment to look back at the year that was 2010.  Enjoy! .  Enjoy!

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The mobile market winners, on the other hand, defined the fundamental identity of the company by developing a clear idea of what they do best and how they create value for customers. Juan Alcacer, a Harvard Business School associate professor who has studied Nokia, says "Two bad companies don''t make a good company." .

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Why is integrity important in leadership? Having honesty and integrity in the workplace is one of the most important qualities of great leadership in business and I am going to tell you why…. Leaders know that honesty and integrity are the foundations of leadership. Jack Welch calls it “candor.”

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

If you’re among the group of active users who no longer find it confusing, but still haven’t hit your stride, you’re also in good company. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. Thanks for the great insights Rob.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « Possibility Maximizer: Chief Happiness Officer Blog | Main | Possibility Maximizer: The Leadership Quarterly » August 16, 2010 The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week Happy Monday!

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Conference Board seeks to drive thought leadership and business results by focusing on four key topical categories: 1) corporate leadership 2) economies, markets, and value creation 3) high-performing organizations, and 4) human capital.  I cannot recommend highly enough that you head over and check it out for yourself!

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 3, 2011

Because, that's the day when the chain's President and COO Dan Cathy brings together 10 influential leaders during a one-day leadership " Leadercast " available at hundreds of locations around the U.S. It is also known as a company that has built its success on core values and its focus on developing leaders. and overseas. "We

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

So far Peters has posted close to 20 videos that explore a variety of ways to pursue excellence both personally and professionally including servant leadership, personal branding, innovation, performance management, and thriving during the recession - just to name a few.   Not big on online video? . 

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 30, 2010

Our guests have embraced collaboration and innovation that impacts the way we all do business both now and in the future. Our guests have embraced collaboration and innovation that impacts the way we all do business both now and in the future.  Saying that Bryan is involved in the HR profession is a bit of an understatement!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

A staggering 88% of companies listed in the 1955 Fortune 500 are nowhere to be found in the same list today. If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” Now it’s less than 15 years.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

SHAWN: I’m Shawn Hunter, and well, what I do, my day job is I’m an executive producer for Leadership Solutions, for Skillsoft, and so to that end, I travel around the world with colleagues, and we track down really interesting people. People who are on the edges of innovation or leadership or management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Leadership is changing — fast. Successful CEOs push managers to go uncomfortably beyond faithful retransmission: they want their leadership coming up with proverbs and parables to better preach the new gospel. She began talking about how she wanted customers to feel and share after interacting with the company’s services.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

The article castigated companies for losing sight of the essence of their business, setting themselves up for challenges from competitors and, ultimately, for obsolescence. And yet, more than 50 years later, companies have become worse, not better, at answering it correctly – far worse. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism. These constant changes made it difficult for employees to stay excited about a company that had previously been an industry bellwether.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. Never confuse power with leadership. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric. The bottom line is that I really like him, I just wished he had more new material to share. Most overnight successes are 20 years in the making.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). By Stephen R.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Same-store sales declined 26% and the company's stock dropped to a three year low. GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. Failure simply means leadership went too fast or didn't go fast enough.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In October 2000, Jack Welch announced the biggest deal of his 20-year tenure as head of GE: a $45 billion merger with Honeywell. But they also found evidence for the importance of executive experience for a company’s financial success. It’s partly because younger CEOs are attracted to faster-growing companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models?

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In the 20th century, a select group of leaders — General Motor's Alfred Sloan, HP's David Packard and Bill Hewlett, and GE's Jack Welch — set the standard for the way corporations are run. Whereas Gerstner famously declared "the last thing IBM needs is a vision," Palmisano had a clear vision for the company.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

During that prep meeting, the staff person strongly encouraged her to downplay or even eliminate any discussion of the newer, more innovative things she was working on — and not to ask the CEO for anything specific, like a policy decision, funding, or public support. "A Communication Leadership Managing up'

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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Women in the LEAD

MARCH 7, 2010

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? Posted by: Terrill Welch | March 06, 2009 at 12:17 PM This was such an exciting and riveting conference. Congratulations on the event!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth.

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CO2

JUNE 30, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). All Rights Reserved.

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