CO2

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

In leadership, we often discuss vision and blind spots. Still, the image won’t be sharp unless you turn your head toward it. Leadership Vision Great leaders know where their blind spots are, present a high-resolution vision of the organization’s future, and are mindful of activity happening on the periphery.

Leadership 78

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

World Bank: Diversity and inclusion as a sustainable competitive advantage. Are you tapping into a diverse collection of views and backgrounds or just one homogenous group of people? How do you touch and engage a diverse workforce and diverse customers in every community you serve? Version 2.0 About the Author.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

In leadership, we often discuss vision and blind spots. Still, the image won’t be sharp unless you turn your head toward it. Leadership Vision. Great leaders encourage diversity of thought and skills so that they can see and overcome their own blind spots. The post Leadership Vision Test: How does your vision work?

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Coaching Tip

MAY 2, 2013

Cultivating a wise perspective is the first step toward developing wise leadership capacity. As the global business environment, driven by diversity and interconnectivity, becomes increasingly complex, we all need a range of skills to deal with the challenges. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership. Sharp Insights.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

You’ll see how Amazon’s core leadership principles helped it to scale. Leadership Tip: Have an open-minded willingness to learn. Amazon has fourteen leadership principles that outline what these values are and are essential to the Amazon leadership model and mindset. But it’s a dangerous mindset with sharp limitations.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Leading Without Maps with Four Leadership Shifts : At the threshold of a new frontier in leadership and workforce development, business leaders can no longer rely on the guidebooks of the past. These two transformations require four shifts to leadership: Mindset. From managing people and processes to enabling success.

How To 65

How To Open-book Learning Curve Crisis 65

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Leadership. by John • October 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. In a strategy seminar I asked the leadership team to tell me what business they were in. Leadership , Marketing , Strategy. Leadership. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Did you like this?

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 29, 2022

” Yesterday’s solutions are creating today’s problems — and opportunities.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

By recognizing and rewarding these strengths, employers can create a diverse and dynamic team. LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. So, if you’re an employer or a manager, consider making leadership skills a priority in your performance evaluation process.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. In recent years a body of research has revealed another, more nuanced benefit of workplace diversity: nonhomogenous teams are simply smarter. Let’s dig into why diverse teams are smarter. They Focus More on Facts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

In today’s workplace, diversity is more than just a buzzword; it’s a way to build a stronger business. At Pinterest, we understand that diverse teams yield smarter , more innovative results, which are essential in the competitive, dynamic tech industry. Setting diversity goals isn’t enough.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. Michael Fraccaro: That’s an interesting way to frame it.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 14, 2017

Gipsie loved to travel to experience diverse cultures and history, taking many trips to Europe, Africa and Asia. She had a sharp mind and sharp wit; reminiscent of Dr. Deming in many ways. Gipsie was a student and close colleague of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. She was a lifelong learner and read voraciously.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 30, 2011

Being able not only to tolerate, but to encourage diversity of thought will go a long ways in inviting co-creation and collaboration. Your point about encouraging diversity of thought is particularly important. 18 Responses to Leading Collaboratively…a 21st Century Necessity Brandon W. Thanks again for a great thought provoking post.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 20, 2009

This is one pretty sharp boss!) Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Quote of the Week The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. THE THEME: Viagra advertising slogans.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

Consider the signature dish Le cinque stagionature del Parmigiano Reggiano in diverse consistenze e temperature , or “the five different ages of Parmigiano Reggiano in five different textures and temperatures.” At Osteria Francescana, dishes are cooked to perfection, but the recipes are never quite finished.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. Moreover, fixed assets are more difficult to leverage across diverse businesses than capabilities, and they tend to expire, become obsolete, or give way to related services. It’s a ‘sharp pencil’ capabilities system rooted in superior information.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

Instead, as we discovered in interviews, many successful STEM women have discovered that sponsoring others helps them build their own reputations as leaders who groom great talent — and can also help them keep their own skills current and sharp. Be authentic. Hone your brand.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

In addition, shareholders don’t necessarily want directors and management to speak “with one voice” (another commonly cited reason for assigning shareholder engagement to the CEO) and value diversity of views that may suggest a board is looking at important matters holistically and has not succumbed to groupthink.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Since unions fell into sharp decline in the private sector in the 1970s, the private-sector wage gap between blacks and whites has grown. But in the first half of the 20th century immigrants still found their way in great numbers into unions and even union leadership roles. Compensation Diversity Economy'

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Politics Sharpe Education Hotels 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

This may sound obvious, but it was in sharp contrast to typical patterns in the pharma industry of recruiting from within, resistance to new thinking, and sclerotic bureaucratic structures. Roivant’s second innovation initiative was to forcefully inject an openness to fresh thinking and outside practices.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 10

Steve Farber

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Indian, male and female, young and old, sharp clothing, shorts, and sweats—this crowd was a diverse and lively mix of people who were clearly engaged and happy to be in the same room together. I was suddenly aware that a silence had settled over the gathering.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

A professional with proven ability to manage change and work across diverse areas, as required, can be a great asset to an organization. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions. Find work that keeps you sharp and keeps you in a learning mode. Particularly at more junior positions.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Keep a laser sharp focus on gross margin. Your leadership is crucial. Economy Execution Leadership' Keep the pressure on productivity.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Whether major investors on a board add or subtract value has become a contentious debate of the era, fueled by a sharp rise in activist campaigns. When activists move from outside critic and cajoler to inside fiduciary and counselor, it is now up to the board leader to mold the more diverse boardroom players into a productive team.

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Hedge Sharpe Short-term Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Russia’s industrialization also means that the market offers substantial opportunities in diverse B2B sectors such as mining, oil and gas, metallurgy, chemicals, light industry, and consumer durables.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

These sharp differences between Chinese women and their counterparts in other countries show that multinationals can't have one cookie-cutter global policy for women," says Rosalind Hudnell , Chief Diversity Officer and Global Director of Education and External Relations, Intel.

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

It is the more versatile, general-purpose charities — including such well-known, diverse institutions as The United Way Worldwide and the Salvation Army — that are faring the worst. Our own research on organizational strategy and leadership more broadly suggests a reason. Why the disparity?

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Crisis Mayo Strategy Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

It continues to live on in places as far-flung and diverse as Iran, Burma and Zimbabwe, just to name a few. The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. As Nocera pointed out, “Occupy protesters were purposely — even proudly — rudderless, eschewing leadership in favor of broad, and thus vague, consensus.”

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Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

In general we find that teams of four offer enough diversity and engage quickly with the challenges they select. Often, in a desire to get the ball rolling or maybe because of the leadership's own imperfect understanding of their company's problems, jamming teams are often given broad, ill-defined problem statements.

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Innovation Blue Ocean Strategy Brainstorming Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity. Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. Assembling and managing diverse teams is hard work. How to get started?

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Diversity Creativity Team Groupthink 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Does your workplace reflect a relative balance of males and females in leadership positions? A healthy range of diversity in terms of age, skin color, religious conviction, culture, or/and sexual orientation? Differences — Not Just Diversity. Leadership & Managing People Book. Excerpted from. Why is this so?

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Diversity Creativity Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In many organizations, in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, a certain cowboy strain of masculinity prevails, especially at the leadership level. It’s to replace loudership with real leadership. “Loudership” is the term used by one organization we’ve worked with. Finally, a word about witches.

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Venture Capitalist Workshop Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

How women are perceived — how they dress, talk, their "executive presence," capacity to "fill a room," leadership style and public image — has been the object of vast, well-intentioned efforts to get more women to the top. But, at the same time, they must "tone it down" or risk being labeled as having sharp elbows.

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