CEO Blog

MAY 28, 2011

There is a great HBR article on how habits and rituals are the way successful people succeed - not will power. I know two of the authors - Braden Kelly and Andrea Meyer. Most companies have a fear of letting trade secrets out the door. Many companies think if they did not invent it inside their company, it is not good.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 25, 2015

I named my new company after him - DDE Media Company. On Meyers Briggs he would be off the scale J. To live a life thinking of the legacy left is powerful and inspirational to me. I knew he was dying and asked him if I could do anything for him. His answer was "no". It was my way of learning it.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 25, 2015

I named my new company after him - DDE Media Company. On Meyers Briggs he would be off the scale J. To live a life thinking of the legacy left is powerful and inspirational to me. I knew he was dying and asked him if I could do anything for him. His answer was "no". It was my way of learning it.

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Meyer Ethics Learning-by-Doing Video 100

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

They understand the power of, and necessity for contextual leadership. Leaders need to have a passion for what their company does or creates, not just a passion for the money it can make. link] Lori Meyer This is a great summary of the characteristics leaders must avoid to become and stay effective. " on Amazon.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

The politician makes speeches and promises motivated by pride, ego, notoriety, power, position, stature, and personal success. Share and Enjoy: View Comments Lori Meyer Thank you for this interesting and important look back at some of our country's founders. link] mikemyatt Hi Mark: Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Read on and find out… People who attempt to lead out of self-serving motivations or misplaced intentions are not really leading – they are pursuing power, glory and status. Lori Meyer Thank you so much for this post. This is the antithesis of true leadership. Just look at how many comments you generated. I admire this.

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The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Chapter 6: Corporate Culture -The Invisible Hand of the Company Part 7. Lobo went from from being a successful CEO to feeling “bruised and battered” as COO at a larger company. For example, Harry believed in long term relationships with customers, but the company culture prioritized the quarterly number. So my advice?

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Women on Business

JULY 20, 2012

So as we wait with bated breath to dissect her every move as CEO, here are things that I would like to see her bring to the troubled company. We all know that Google is largely a data driven company and that brings with it a standard number of hits and misses. Well rounded data based decisions. Innovation.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Liz Smith – Chairman and CEO, Bloomin’ Brands (Outback, Flemings, Carrabba’s, Bonefish Grill) – one of the world’s largest casual dining companies. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

An especially instructive example involves Greg Meyer, who has helped run customer-service operations for nearly a dozen companies. Last year, Meyer became an enthusiastic participant on quora.com, a popular knowledge-sharing site. Meyer's customer-service posts didn't say "hire me" — but they had that effect anyway.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

That's part of why I wanted to hear him in conversation with Chris Meyer last month at Future Forward , a retreat for New England executives, entrepreneurs, and investors. Wolfram graded his company: "I'd give us an A+ technology and R&D, but maybe a B or C in business, which makes sense for us. Disclosure: I presented there as well.).

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Later Chris Posted by: Rick Meyer | November 18, 2010 at 10:56 AM You can actually download the songs to your computer or phone. Someone at the ad agency and some higher up at the car company obviously knows their market, knows how to gently tweak their tails a bit and (most importantly of all) when to draw the line and get away with it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

So it’s no wonder that absenteeism remains a massive problem for most companies, with payrolls dotted with sick leaves, disability leaves, and stress leaves. Designer Stefan Sagmeister said in his TED talk, “The Power of Time Off,” that every seven years he takes one year off. Warrior mentality. Peer pressure.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

A clear-eyed look at some common and allegedly hard-headed tools that firms often use in an attempt to improve performance, everything from mission statements through Six Sigma through high-powered exec compensation. By Christopher Meyer with Julia Kirby.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate. Just How Powerful Are You? Chris Meyer & Julia Kirby. Maxwell Wessel. Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple?

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

" (this film has not yet been rated) Posted by: Rick Meyer | November 20, 2010 at 10:28 PM Incredibaby was stunned: He'd hoped "floating formula" would work, but the invisibility was a BONUS! Posted by: Dan White, Band of Brothers, Leadership Company | November 21, 2010 at 01:35 PM Darn static cling!!!!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

In a recent article in HBR, Chris Meyer and I argued that we'll see companies taking more and more ownership of externalities they could ignore because of changing sensibilities and better sensors (meaning detection and reporting of impacts by third parties). So what's behind the initiative? In a word: scale.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

Every time I've taken a Meyers-Briggs test, I score high on the introversion scale. But as a CEO of a company with more than 18,000 employees, I've found myself particularly challenged because so much of my work requires me to be "out there" in front of others. As an introvert, I enjoy being by myself. So how do I manage this?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

It finally seems that the uproar over Marissa Meyer's diktat banning flexible work policies at Yahoo is dying down. Our research on identifying replicable templates for business model innovation shows that innovating how a company engages with its workforce is an often overlooked way of increasing business model performance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

It was, in part, the rise of the technology industry that gave charm a new urgency, because tech companies needed managers on the inside who were "technical and charismatic." But a number of researchers and private companies are taking the opposite tack, exploring applications that require constructing 3-D printers on a massive scale.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

In the few years since the financial crisis of 2008 hit us where it hurts, the calls for the "end of capitalism" have rung out from the streets and halls of power alike. Exactly how capitalism is changing (and the inevitability of its metamorphosis) is the subject of Chris Meyer and Julia Kirby's masterful new book, Standing on the Sun.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

HBR’s Julia Kirby and author Chris Meyer argue this is an issue businesses must care about as well , and after surveying the latest data on mobility, Justin Fox says this issue can’t be left to the economists. ” For a little more nuance on the insourcing trend, read Brad Power on GE. Inequality and Economic Mobility.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. The second is a new lawsuit, Meyer v.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

Despite the current political headwinds blowing against globalization, companies continue to recruit talent from around the world and talented people continue to want overseas work experience. Marshall Goldsmith, who has coached CEOs at dozens of global Fortune 500 companies, told me that the talent game is becoming geographically borderless.

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