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 : October 23, 2010 at 7:20 am Raj, respect and belief are two qualities that are important to cultivate. Honestly – I can’t take credit because my writing isn’t my own.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

As part of my new book, The Future Leader , I interviewed more than 140 CEOs around the world and asked them each to define leadership. My role in terms of leadership is to set the vision and to share it. Hans believes leadership is: “Ensuring that people have everything they need to achieve the missions of an organization.

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Definition Telecommunications CEO Motivation 365

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. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. You’re distracted, and you might not even care about the work itself or the quality of the outcome. DAVE WHEELER FOR HBR.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Greenberg , Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies headquartered in New York, presided over a firm of 58,000 people worldwide. The irony is that Mr Greenberg does not enjoy a reputation associated with good leadership but perhaps at this particular time, he may have got it right. In 2001, Jeffery W. What about you? Warren G.

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Performance Review Blog Learning-by-Doing Contingency Plans 43

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.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Airlines Telecommunications Long-term 9

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.

Succession 14

Succession Telecommunications Finance CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Many companies extol the value of work-life balance for their employees, but the reality for senior executives? What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. There isn't any.

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Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

GE is headquartered in Fairfield, a small town in Connecticut, while its famous Leadership Development Center is located in Crotonville, New York. Out of the 17 US Companies selected by Jim Collins in his book Built to Last studied, ten are headquartered in small towns. It's the same in Europe. The reason is simple.

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Real Estate Telecommunications Collins Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Swansea City gets a player of much higher quality than they could hire, and Tottenham Hotspur gets Caroll having the first team action so critical to his development. Khazanah convinced their portfolio companies to trade their leaders. Voser had more than 25 years of experience at Shell, having joined the company in 1982.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. But if board members conclude that their companys vitality depends on process improvement, what kind of CEO should they choose? We all have.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole. Heres a simple but compelling example.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Use this list of common qualities of the inner critic’s voice to help your people identify their critics. In doing this, you are introducing a powerful new idea: that readiness for advancement and leadership does not depend on an innate quality of confidence, but rather, on building the skill of managing one’s own self-doubts.

Mentor 8

Mentor Telecommunications Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or meaningful to an end-user — everything from its look and feel design to how it responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's daily lives.

Strategy 10

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Only when he saw the actual trades — the raw data — did Dimon realize the full magnitude of his company's situation. At one global telecommunications giant, for example, a critical network software upgrade was not only slipping further behind schedule, but the bug density was slowly creeping up, as well.

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Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

And many companies around the world would greatly benefit from infusions of fresh talent and insight into their boards. So inventory those moments when your leadership success has been proven by your questions. Boards Leadership Managing up Managing yourself' Many senior managers desire — and are qualified — to join a board.

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Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Organizations have a strong sense of their own value and an unswerving commitment to high quality care but little appreciation of others’ worth in their local, regional, or national systems. There is a culture of safety and quality, and patients are involved in their own care. So what can we do?

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Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Today, Huawei is the only Chinese company – out of the 91 mainland Chinese companies listed on the Fortune Global 500 list – earning more revenue abroad than in China. ” But as with many great companies, we find part of the solution to this puzzle by looking at the specific values that define the culture of Huawei.

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