The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Leaders who didn’t have that figured out before 2020 have certainly had a crash course—or crashed and burned. Previous blogs in this series have cited research proving the most successful leaders have strong EI profiles. The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success. links to blogs 1 & 2 here) In the EQi-2.0®

Emotional Intelligence 98

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware P&L Leadership 98

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. “If you can speak the language of money, you will be more successful,” he says. Of course, there are also myriad books and reference guides on the topic. How can you boost your financial acumen?

Finance 8

Finance Skills EBITDA Net Present Value 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. It’s much harder to give course corrections later if the ship has drifted way off course.

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Its corporate development group looked at upwards of 150 targets a year, and used a remarkably efficient screening process that rejected any potential acquisition that didn't make good sense strategically. The company did not overlook small deals if they contributed to the development of critical capabilities. Pfizer Inc.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

To develop consistent and reliable data, we rely on a scientifically developed and standardized survey instrument designed to gauge public perceptions of companies on seven dimensions: finance, leadership, workplace, citizenship, governance, products, and innovation. How much weight should each ranking get?

CEO 8

CEO Reputation Metrics EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Successful companies shape their high-level strategies by relying not on complicated frameworks but on simple rules of thumb. Next, ALL's CEO assembled a cross-functional team to develop simple rules for prioritizing capital spending. Within three years, ALL's Brazilian rail operations had increased revenues by 50% and tripled EBITDA.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8