Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Today, with the International Space Station in operation and anticipation of a multi-year human mission into deep space, protecting astronauts from the negative effects of disconnection and isolation has become an issue of greater interest to NASA scientists. The American Psychological Association’s survey of U.S. What’s going on?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

I have no doubt that you may also feel the same about those who report to you. Many or most consider it an honor, and a way to learn more about how these operations work. often hear from the leaders I work with about what a great team they have. Stretch them in their current work: How can your most able employees be stretched?

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Delegation Conference Learning-by-Doing Committee 277

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CMI's The Everyone Economy report covered by the Asian Times In case you didn’t see already, CMI’s Everyone Economy report was covered by the Asian Times – have a read here ! The meeting opened with a welcome message from Dr Ann Francke OBE, chief executive of CMI.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

A 2011 white paper jointly published by the GlobalEnglish Corporation and Human Capital Institute reported that 70% of global employees are non-native speakers – and only 7% think they speak English well enough to do their jobs. Are they making presentations to executives? Are they sharing their ideas on conference calls?

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Globalization Skills Mentor White Paper 235

HR Digest

JANUARY 31, 2021

Come to work some days a week; rest operate from home as far as possible. Unilever’s chief executive Alan Jope recently said his office workers will never return to their desks five days a week, in the latest indication that coronavirus will transform modern working life.

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Real Estate Social Capital Fashion Teamwork 59

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. You know the issue of sequestered executives is a real problem when it’s main-stream enough to be made into a prime-time Reality TV show.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 22, 2014

Only 52 percent of companies spend their time in a way that aligns with their strategic goals, according to a McKinsey survey of 1,500 executives from businesses of all sizes around the world. Some executives lost time by wasting too many hours online. Calendar Management.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 15, 2015

If I’ve learned one thing over my 35 years as an executive coach, speaker and author, it’s this: change has to come from within. By then I had done intensive one-on-one coaching with more than a hundred executives, nearly all successes but a smattering of failures too. It can’t be dictated, demanded, or otherwise forced upon people.

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Chief Operating Officer Resistance Video Follow-up 70

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. As speaker Bernard Marr put it at CMI’s National Conference: “ what the hell is Big Data? But there’s still a big question for a lot of people.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Reports reveal painful truth despite ‘incontrovertible proof’ that women are key to business, economic & societal growth. percent of executive officers, 8.1 It’s a painful revelation. “At At the current rate of change, it will take until the year 2085 for women to reach parity with men in leadership roles in our country.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? He had to ask her four more times, including once on a conference call with the whole executive team, before she finally relented. That’s precisely what we found.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 In the latest installment to his Little Big Things video series Tom Peters declares war on these systems and encourages managers to make it easy for all members of an organization to identify problems with an organization's systems and provide bottom-up feedback for improving the way the company operates.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Informally visiting with your direct reports, your employees, and your peers often doesn’t require a lot of effort or time. If you have a geographically disbursed team, you can also blog, have conference calls or use a web cam between actual face to face visits. I wonder if above mentioned executive was just showing his sense of humor.

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Blog Self-aware Trout Learning-by-Doing 172

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

Heather McCulligh , Halogen Software Talent Management Blog : Why You Need a Strong Talent Bench - Most leaders and executives would strongly agree that an executive succession plan is critical to an organization's continued success. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

As an executive coach, I’ve seen a lot of leaders like Liz (not her real name) — in fact, Liz herself was my client. A senior director of marketing reports to an executive with broader responsibilities, who in turn reports to the global VP of marketing. Who else do you think I should talk with?

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Learning Curve McKinsey Goal Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

After the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , many companies had to urgently decide whether to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a global business conference scheduled to take place just days after news of Khashoggi’s killing broke. The compass that was guiding the bank was a financial one.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 13

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 14, 2011

First, Dr. Liz Alexander Bio: Dr. Liz Alexander establishes executives as thought leaders by exposing them to the seven-step process she developed from 25 years as a successful nonfiction author and book consultant. The first is that “thought leader” isn’t something you go around saying about yourself, it’s a term conferred on you by others.

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Leadership Long-term Innovation Audience 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

No wonder that fewer than 2 in 10 women in STEM who have not achieved success report being extremely confident in their abilities. Among women who have achieved success in STEM, 39% report such confidence. A majority of successful women in STEM report sponsoring someone at their companies (only 37% of other women in STEM do the same).

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Women in the LEAD

AUGUST 25, 2009

  At a conference some years ago, I arrived customarily very early before people were gathering for the session. It is easy for a leader to be dazzled and preoccupied by statistics and reports, overlooking that most often, there are human stories and lives behind each of them. Every person is important.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Press Release Letter 78

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

To keep everyone up-to-date, particularly across departments and functions, employees use electronic tools (e-mail, voice mail, conference calls, instant messaging, and social media). Each executive visits two patients. We then report back to the staffing area we visited on what is working and what isn't working.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

” It doesn’t matter if it’s an eight-person board meeting, a 15-person executive team meeting, or a 150-person leadership conference—your first step when planning an important one-off or non-routine get-together should be to draft an initial set of goals based on the answers to the two questions above.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

” As a team, your collective goal is to come up with “agreed-upon norms that you’ll all operate within,” says Burkus. You should take full advantage of empty conference rooms, semi-private cubicles, and quiet alcoves, says Burkus. Can you help?” ” Leave the office (temporarily).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” Similarly, a 2012 EY survey of almost 600 global business executives found that talent management functions often measure the easy things (such as employee retention) while overlooking other factors that are important for organizational success (such as whether the right people, with the right skills, are in the right jobs).

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Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

” I’ve been attending conferences on green or sustainable business for more than 15 years, and I’ve worked closely with senior executives at multinationals on sustainability strategy. Neasden Control Centre for hbr. “Wall Street doesn’t care.” ” It’s good news.

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Letter Long-term Short-term Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Some excerpts from our conversation: In the course of your reporting, what did you observe about Bezos’s decision-making style? Ordinarily when tech companies do this, they hold a big press conference. Instead, Jeff brought about two dozen reporters in to see him in small groups. Two factors come to mind.

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Decentralization CEO Operations Leadership Styles 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This comes at a significant financial and productivity cost to all organizations, as demonstrated by research in corporate settings : Onboarding an external hire can cost up to twice the departing executive’s salary, and the time it takes for an external hire to become productive is twice as long as for someone hired from within.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When the staff conversation turns to operating margins, cash flow, inventory, or revenue, does the CHRO tune out? Last year I was at an HR conference where someone asked "What is YouTube?") Operating as efficiently as possible is a minimum expectation. Does your CHRO use a smart phone?

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Metrics Human Resources Attrition CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This weakness is as true for senior leaders as it is for the rank-and-file, but when a CEO or other senior executive is known for chasing shiny objects, a lot of people and projects can suffer. The employee and senior executive can agree on coded language. In situations like these, I’ve found six techniques can help.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

They are professional Predict, Plan & Execute (“PP&E”) machines, and as they have evolved over time, are carefully engineered to stamp out anything that induces uncertainty. There has been explosion in the past 10 years of conferences and popular and academic books, articles and blogs on the topic. That’s because you are!

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Entrepreneur Innovation Operations Consultative 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Listen in on MBA classes and corporate conferences and you will hear a lot of talk about the need for inspiring missions, ethical behavior and transcendent purpose. When properly installed and operated, it delivers financial growth. But it also shows that those MBA class discussions and annual report rhetoric aren't just fluff.

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Intangible Assets Ethics Short-term Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Not only do employees with disabilities comprise a large talent pool, it’s a remarkably innovative one: 75% of them report having an idea that would drive value for their company (versus 66% of employees without disabilities). The numbers are similar across gender, race, and generation. Provide role models.

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Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. As the second week of May began, Dimon realized, "The last thing I told the market — that it was a tempest in a teapot — was dead wrong," the Journal reports.

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Banking Kahneman Document Simon 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The economics of operating large campuses, and big faculties and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Yet the company’s mounting scandals reveal something seriously amiss, culminating in last week’s stern report from former U.S. Indeed, employees at every turn faced personal and professional risks in defying the law; two European executives were indicted and arrested for operating without required permits.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

Consumers don't do a good job reporting what they currently want or do, let along what they might want or will do in the future. The final stage in the process is to iteratively test an idea by executing smart experiments to test key assumptions. Will consumers purchase at the required price point?

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