In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2013

The focus of innovation within high-tech and new-age companies is the product itself; once these companies carve out product differentiation, they call on marketing for the sizzle that sells the steak. Airlines, cable providers, telecommunication firms, and credit card companies promise customer service every day.

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Marketing Levitt Telecommunications Brand 257

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

External board evaluations are growing in popularity and are currently used by about 25% of Fortune 100 companies. CEO Succession Executive leadership is far too crucial to leave unplanned or to neglect until there’s a dire need to fill a position. Who Conducts a Board Evaluation?

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Diversity Review CEO Telecommunications 217

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Dan Pontefract is Chief Envisioner at TELUS, a Canadian telecommunications company, where he heads the Transformation Office, a future-of-work consulting group that helps organizations enhance their corporate cultures and collaboration practices.

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Telecommunications Consultative Organization Company 70

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This was the situation the leaders of Southern New England Telephone Company (SNET) faced in 1994 when Connecticut deregulated the local market. However, a few months before the “go live” date (July 1), during a day-long meeting, the officers of the company realized the people who would need to implement the plan were ill-prepared.

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Process Telecommunications Tips Productivity 199

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 28, 2016

Dan Pontefract is Chief Envisioner at TELUS, a Canadian telecommunications company, where he heads the Transformation Office, a future-of-work consulting group that helps organizations enhance their corporate cultures and collaboration practices.

Telecommunications 70

Telecommunications Consultative Organization Company 70

Lead Change Blog

MAY 24, 2019

I worked with another client planning fast growth for his telecommunications business. I have started up companies. I worked recently with a client who thought their business was doing fine. It was, but now it has the potential to do even better. Experience. I have led small to large enterprises.

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Telecommunications Agility Fashion Learning-by-Doing 193

Terry Starbucker

MAY 22, 2016

This is another installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership”. This excerpt tells two very contrasting stories about a job of leadership that is never, ever, easy – having to let people go. I thought about how I had been in this situation before. Indeed it was.

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Letter Leadership Call Center Long-term 171

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2014

Guest post from Robert Bruce Shaw : Research into the psychology of leadership highlights the benefit of being more confident than you should be. That is, it helps to believe you''re better than you are, and be more optimistic about your company and business, than an entirely objective analysis would warrant.

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Shaw Telecommunications Metrics Pharmaceuticals 229

Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

This focus on short-term challenges neglects the development of essential management and leadership skills. Large online retailer This large online retailer currently has 50 management and leadership apprentices at level 5 and 60 at level 6. So, it gives me a lot more opportunity in the projects I can get involved in.

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Productivity Products Short-term Proposal 52

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. Identify and communicate criteria for successful leadership.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer How To Leadership Telecommunications 50

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 22, 2012

Todd Nielsen has extensive leadership experience as a CEO, COO, President, & Vice-President of companies in the IT & Telecommunication industries. He writes about leadership at his blog: A Slice of Leadership. The journey may not be easy, but the reward will be worth it. About Todd Nielsen.

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Strategy Software Telecommunications COO 251

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

In order to survive over the long term and gain competitive advantage, companies must learn how to connect profoundly with the world around them -- not only with customers and stakeholders, but also with employees, local communities, politicians, and the environment itself." The life expectancy of a leading U.S.

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Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2021

Fast Times is written by four authors, reflecting on their personal experiences leading dozens of top global digital companies across all sectors. This book is for leaders at companies where digital transformation is a top-three priority,” explain authors Arun Arora , Peter Dahlstrom , Klemens Hjartar , and Florian Wunderlich.

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McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 65

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2014

Contemplate the array of companies he created – 171 in all. The creative teams he developed laid the foundations for today’s music, movie, and telecommunications industries. By the time Thomas Edison applied for patent #223,898 for his version of the light bulb, he had already formed the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City.

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P&L Telecommunications Chemicals Film 252

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2021

Fast Times is written by four authors, reflecting on their personal experiences leading dozens of top global digital companies across all sectors. This book is for leaders at companies where digital transformation is a top-three priority,” explain authors Arun Arora , Peter Dahlstrom , Klemens Hjartar , and Florian Wunderlich.

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McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Globalization 65

Experience to Lead

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Virtual programs with a major telecommunications firm in Malaysia. Soon to deliver 35 additional virtual sessions with the Asia-Pacific offices of a Fortune Global 500 Beauty Tech Company. Rather than using a standard story and leadership framework, we specifically addressed their setbacks to ensure their current and future success.

Telecommunications 52

Telecommunications Globalization Participative Learning-by-Doing 52

HR Digest

APRIL 1, 2020

With the introduction of creative workplaces, the workplace has become more spacey, and there are more telecommunication and file work. To avoid creating a situation where employee slacks off, the organization should set clear expectations to the worker as per the company's standards. SET EXPECTATIONS. PULL THEM OUT. What does it do?

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Telecommunications Delegation Micromanagement Follow-up 52

Thin Difference

AUGUST 8, 2019

While it might take time and effort to shift to a coaching culture, you’re also investing in the future of your company. They might determine their goals can’t be met within the bounds of your company. For small business owners, investing in people through coaching leadership pays high dividends. Who Should Coach? Guest Post.

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Short-term Long-term Telecommunications Webinar 64

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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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

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. After losing billions of dollars, the IBM board woke up and decided to get new leadership. They changed the company, and IBM made a remarkable comeback. We need a new kind of leadership.

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Telecommunications Education Politics Quality 98

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The changing role of leadership will mean that the relationship between managers and direct reports will have to change in both directions. At the consulting firm McKinsey and Company, a Director may often have less detailed knowledge about a client than a more junior partner. The challenge of leadership is growing.

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Short-term Long-term Trends Telecommunications 107

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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Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

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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Greenleaf Maslow Telecommunications Blog 145

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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Contingency Plans Telecommunications Uncertainty Planning 69

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

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.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Resistance Download eBook Newsletter 56

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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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

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. Blurring the Lines: A Broader Definition of Service/Quality.

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Quality Telecommunications Definition Blog 49

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It was hard to be more of an insider at The Walt Disney Company than COO Thomas Staggs. The 26-year company veteran had been widely seen as the heir apparent to CEO Bob Iger — that is, until Staggs abruptly stepped down this month. “We’ve spent a lot of time with companies that are worried,” Nielson says.

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CEO Company Telecommunications Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. Established originally in 1865, as a paper mill, it became a public company in 1868. Over ensuing decades, the company expanded into an ever-more-bewildering array of product categories.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Crisis Committee Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. Parachuted in to salvage a beleaguered organization, he pushed the company toward a new way of thinking, ultimately growing IBM’s value and revenues by more than 40 percent. Business education Informal leadership Leadership'

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Project Goal Management Budgeting 56

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. Our leadership practices remain authoritative. And, a paltry 38% reported that their organizations had effective leadership running the show.

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CIO Leadership Drucker Telecommunications 9

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. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well. DAVE WHEELER FOR HBR. Insight Center.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

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. Where was its leadership bench? Using data from the 2012 survey, we also found that boards gave their companies'' very poor grades on talent management. Methodology.

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Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

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. But are the boards of these companies similarly “globalized”? since the index was first developed in 2008. and 8%, respectively.

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Globalization Committee Telecommunications Consensus 14