Leading Blog
MARCH 6, 2023
And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. She says, “I translated his sage advice to mean put your focus on followership, not politics.” Transforming a really large entity also means reconciling the pace of change in the market with the rate and pace of change the organization can withstand.” How do we do that?
In the CEO Afterlife
AUGUST 7, 2011
I’ve also written a historical novel, although I’m still trying to find a publisher who isn’t afraid to invest in a newbie, grey-haired writer in a market going through drastic change. Warren Staley (Cargill) supports Habitat for Humanity with a hammer, a saw and a wallet. Afterlife: Fortune Magazine Contributor, Wannabe Novelist.
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Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 14, 2015
Sales, marketing automation, and the new telemarketing field, ignore the change management aspect of what buyers must accomplish and instead focus on figuring out how and what and to whom to pitch their solution. We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. We just need to help them do it themselves.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
Should business leaders be political? Let me rephrase — should business leaders be involved in politics? And yet business leaders are finding themselves drawn into the political process — oddly enough, to try and depoliticize it. And concern about political gridlock is not just confined to the US.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
Online outreach has enabled the candidates to raise vast sums of money, identify their supporters and likely supporters with precision, and leverage social networks to engage peer pressure (the more polite term from psychology is "social proof") on their behalf. Everyone knows politics is a big money game.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 2, 2016
In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 It is true that Kalanick consistently called China the most important market for Uber. Uber truly wanted to succeed in its fastest-growing market, one where taxi drivers outnumber their U.S. trillion smiled for the camera alongside the Chinese leader.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
Some of the greatest accomplishments in business, politics, and culture have come not from individual initiative alone but from those working in , with , and for community. Marketer Simon Sinek has noted that , “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. First, great leadership often starts in community.
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