Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Becky Robinson and the Weaving Influence team pulled together a great webinar on Servant Leadership. Bachelder is a passionate restaurant industry executive serving as the CEO Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. Servant Leadership begins with self-examination. Focus on people before P&L. Cheryl Bachelder.

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Blanchard P&L Greenleaf Leadership 100

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Becky Robinson and the Weaving Influence team pulled together a great webinar on Servant Leadership. Bachelder is a passionate restaurant industry executive serving as the CEO Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. Servant Leadership begins with self-examination. Focus on people before P&L. Cheryl Bachelder.

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Blanchard P&L Greenleaf Leadership 100

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In this time of unrest and change, the role of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in leadership has emerged as the critical skill set for leaders. Having watched the corporate leadership landscape for over 25 years now, I am relieved to see EI getting the attention it deserves! But you can use your leadership to begin the healing process.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware P&L Leadership 98

Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 18, 2016

People ask me all the time for advice — I frequently answer questions on Reddit, Quora, and LinkedIn to a mix of executives, business owners, and job seekers. What is size of P&L I should run? Do you have an example of how you help executives at major companies reach their professional goals?”

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P&L Tools Bottom-up Skills 150

Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Companies now understand the impact of diversifying their talent pool, especially in leadership roles. o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. Develop your web of influence (key stakeholders, decision makers, influencers, connectors) to assist you in reaching your goal. o Take on high profile projects.

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Press Release PR Mentor Discount 239

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. They’ll often use another L-word — leadership — in complete ignorance of how their loveless “bottom line” orientation is rooted in pessimism and fear. . It’s at the heart of leadership. ” Ya gotta love it!

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Airlines P&L Collins Leadership 53

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There is a noticeable focus on “culture” lately, whether the topic is recruiting, engagement, development, retention, what have you. I also truly appreciated some of the business practices that leadership followed that I have missed in other organizations, including ones highlighted in McCord’s book.

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

So why would a busy executive agree to sit on a board? Why is there is a cottage industry of executive search firms focusing on “reverse board searches,” where they proactively work to place executives on outside corporate boards? What do executives gain from serving on boards? increased by over $300,000.

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Execution P&L CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The job of the senior executive is much more complicated today than it was a decade or two ago — and that trend will continue, especially if you hope to play on a global stage (which is a nearly universal condition these days for many companies). That's one reason that job rotation is more common than ever as a development tool.

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

The best executives understand which ones they need to focus on and which ones they can delegate. While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people.

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. But note how P&G did it.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

These are the executives who run discrete businesses and control all of the resources associated with them. To get this broad exposure, managers were given a variety of functional roles, eventually assuming leadership for a small business unit. Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days?

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Management P&L Incubator Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Should you take a more targeted approach, with a short-term executive education program? As an adjunct professor for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business , I’ve taught multiple classes for degree programs, as well as executive education offerings. Start by looking at the job you’re aiming for. Learning.

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P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2017

"When they get to own a P&L or become the CEO, in many cases executives are rusty at strategy or have never even been given a set of tools to set strategy," says management consultant Tim Lewko. Align executive team so members are working on the same page of issues. Can't Get Enough Leadership.

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Process P&L CEO Execution 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. Such as a biomarker initiative, the development of a traceable substance that detects a specific disease, which is now underway. “This seems like pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking.

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Innovation P&L Short-term Company 9

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Instead, chief executives are often presented with two “right” answers, but one is slightly worse. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

All too often companies misunderstand the value of their cybersecurity teams and underfund their development. It’s not uncommon for our executives to acknowledge our team’s accomplishments during company-wide presentations. This enables developers to quickly and effectively write code that is more secure from the start.

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Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Who has P&L authority? Insight center. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative. ” he asked.

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Corporate behemoths — like IBM and its innovation jams , 3M''s open innovation efforts and Procter &Gamble''s connect + develop programs — are constantly looking for ways to cost-effectively leverage their scale while safely exploring potential innovation opportunities. Many of these initiatives enjoy some success; most do not.

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Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 198 senior innovation executives late last year, in partnership with the consulting firm Innosight, we found them using two different kinds of measures. Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Language is food for the mind.

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P&L Books Definition Strategic Planning 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

"I look around and see that my male colleagues have P&L responsibility and most of us are in staff roles. But it seems every time a leadership role opens up, women are not on the slate. They can put themselves forward for leadership roles when they are qualified but have been overlooked. It would be easier, I was told.

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Education P&L Constraint Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

But even as these old ideas remain in use (and indeed, are still taught), management as it is practiced by the most thoughtful executives evolves. Townes, and Henry L. Gantt – developed theories that emphasized efficiency, lack of variation, consistency of production, and predictability. Other universities followed.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

For years I've been working on helping companies to see how work, home, community, and self (mind, body, and spirit) can be mutually reinforcing; this is the "four-way wins" approach I describe in Total Leadership. David is a VP who is accountable for a multi-billion dollar P & L business. But changing those norms isn't easy.

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P&L Long-term Learning-by-Doing Team 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

” I love this quote from L. Consider my friend John, the former chief executive and chairman of a top professional services firm, who is now active in several remarkable social initiatives. For Richard, a respected academic and world authority on leadership, vacations are also serious stuff. You and Your Team.

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P&L Sharpe Hotels Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Executives frequently focus on analyzing the company’s profit and loss to determine where the company is over-spending and being wasteful, and then figure out how to reduce expenses to drive more profit to the bottom line. However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly.

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Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 77

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Most businesses don't even know what's going to be required in two or three years," says Joseph Weintraub, a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College and co-author of the book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Focus on learning and development. Principles to Remember.

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P&L Committee Career Case Study 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The leader makes the reorg team and leadership swear to secrecy and then is surprised when the news leaks to the wider organization (it always does, we’re afraid). The leader, desperate to get in control of the situation, pushes the team to develop “the answer” so that he or she can tell the organization. Add to Cart.

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P&L Open-book Organization Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Rather, the issues the plane has been facing have much more to do with Boeing's decision to treat the design and production of such a radically new and different aircraft as a modular system so early in its development. Several of the top positions in the merged Boeing were assigned to executives who had previously worked in St.

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Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Scott is also an executive coach, speaker, and blogger. My work as an executive coach involves looking at a lot of 360 degree feedback reports. Why is that?

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Bottom-up Short-term Executive Coaching Open-book 177

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Bar coded packaging today drives inventory control, P&L calculations, and all manner of financial management processes. And the cash register is just a metaphor for any system, process, and procedure that inappropriately stops the execution of enterprise. We seem to be getting longer on high tech; shorter on high touch.

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P&L Customer Intimacy Price Retail 150

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Business development. ” Robert P. ” Roy L. They don’t have a clearly unique product, but instead rally behind ideas that are not fully developed. Management remains isolated or unrealistic, possessing limited leadership development and people skills. Business Development. Vanderpoel.

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Strategy P&L Strategic Planning Tactics 66

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

We conducted a 10-year study, which we call the CEO Genome Project , in which we assembled a data set of more than 17,000 C-suite executive assessments and studied 2,600 in-depth to analyze who gets to the top and how. Messy situations cry out for strong leadership. But our data shows a completely different picture. Make a Big Leap.

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CEO CFO P&L Career 8