The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When you actively consider the people that have made contributions of significance to the field of global leadership development over the years, you don’t get too far down that list before Marshall Goldsmith’s name appears. Ponder, just for a moment, how different leadership was back then—in so very many ways. Daunting tasks!

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Situational Leadership Hersey Leadership Document 52

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 310

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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Executive Coaching Execution Self-aware Company 318

LDRLB

MARCH 27, 2013

[Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Roger Schwarz. Roger is the author of the new book, Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. ]. Most leaders often operate under a mindset of unilateral control where the manager or leader feels responsible and accountable for the team and thus dictates to them.

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Team Rogers Consensus Learning-by-Doing 154

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

This may sound harsh, but the truth often is… I’ve witnessed far too many people in positions of leadership that wouldn’t recognize an opportunity if it hit them squarely in the face. If you cannot recognize, attract, and acquire opportunity you should not be in a leadership position. Click To Tweet.

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Due Diligence Metrics Competitive Advantage Rogers 167

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Great execution can elevate a flawed plan; at the same time, poor operational capabilities can easily sink a great set of ideas. The real magic for me as a leader was understanding how to shape our strategy and operational plans by integrating ideas from others and empowering them to bring those concepts to life.

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Team Rogers Diversity Franchising 100

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

John Wayne and Roy Rogers had Gabby Hayes. Back characters on TV shows included restaurant and bar operators, where the stars went top relax. Bandleaders on the late-night are vital #3 characters on the show, including Doc Severinsen, Skitch Henderson, Paul Shaffer and The Roots band. Gene Autry had Pat Buttram.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). by Will Rogers, or somebody else. Whoever said it, it is certainly true.

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Deming Company Management Conference 53

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

There simply was not enough hiring taking place for Millennials to make their mark on organizations, and so the dynamics in the workplace and how these companies operated really didn’t change. And for organizations to succeed, I believe leadership style and culture must adapt to address it. Times they are a changin’.

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Resources Talent Management Rogers Constraint 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. ” Will Rogers. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 322

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Quotes on community stewardship, leadership and related topics. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When that happens, you don’t need a lot of rules because people make judgments that are in sync with what the business needs and how the business operates to get there. The same holds for great leadership skills. In hiring talent at any level, especially senior managers and executives, this ‘fit’ is critical.

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Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Management Craft

APRIL 24, 2011

Is the paradox of abundance operating in the background of your life? The concept of a fully functioning person from, On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers. What would a model of leadership look like? I have been thinking about this a lot lately and know it is so for me. Positive emotions. Engagement. Relatedness. Accomplishment.

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Rogers Construction Goal Film 69

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

Many of the best leaders and managers in the business world operate from the Pleaser power style. When they are operating from their strengths, Pleasers can become the glue that holds a positive corporate culture together. Roger, a vice president of sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry, was one such Pleaser.

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Rogers Morale Long-term Pharmaceuticals 14

Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 1, 2016

So, what can a man with limited memory teach us about leadership? Let’s dig into the leadership lessons from Jason Bourne. . Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Jason Bourne. One hit is all it takes – #JasonBourne leadership lessons Click To Tweet. This is a great leadership mantra. Where does he go?

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Leadership Cost Planning Rogers 120

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. And a very visible acquisition under Mauricio’s leadership is struggling. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises. Roger Schwarz.

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Long-term Short-term Strategy Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Such challenging goals require leaders to operate in areas where the pathways aren't paved, and the moves aren't already choreographed. He had a goal.

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Rogers Health Care Education Innovation 15

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 313

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the leadership of Opportunity's Geralyn Sheehan , a CED specialist, we forged ahead, investing resources to build programs in four areas: agriculture financing, training, and processing; artisan training and product distribution; a rural technical high school and community infrastructure; and leadership development work.

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Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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Human Resources Chief Operating Officer Ulrich Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Roger was a young rising star. His company had just appointed him to take over a troubled country operation in Latin America. Coaching Roger, I suggested he was a bunny rabbit who had just been attacked by a horde of guinea pigs. Roger was a classic rabbit. He did a brilliant job turning things around financially.

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Rogers Benchmarking Loyalty Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

In season three of Mad Men , Sterling Coopers rainmakers — including Don Draper and Roger Sterling — are planning to leave the ad agency and to take as many clients as possible with them. Advertising Leadership Research' Why do those less-glamorous roles end up mattering more, do you think? Not at all!

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Cooper Rogers Advertising Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. “We were Abelson-Frankel, yet operated as two separate agencies.” Others believe that leaders are born, not made.

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Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

The poster child for his view was Roger Smith who was an MBA-trained accounting and finance specialist. During his ten year tenure as GE's CEO during the 80s, Smith made breathtaking strategic and operating blunders. He believes that CEOs and the top management should not be bean counters but rather should be a "product guys.".

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CEO Finance Rogers Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This suggests that the problem of too little strategic leadership may be as much a function of doing as of thinking. One chief operating officer I worked with was appointed to her newly created role with the expressed purpose of integrating two supply chain organizations resulting from an acquisition.

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Supply Chain Chief Operating Officer Execution Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

It''s a lawyerly, exhaustive, exhausting rundown of all the things that could possibly weigh on the earnings of a giant global bank, from regulatory changes to loans going bad to a liquidity crisis to the possibility that "one or more of its employees causes a significant operational breakdown or failure."

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Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Schultz is already well-known as one of this generation’s CEO activists, a group which includes Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein , Duke Energy’s Jim Rogers , and Google’s Eric Schmidt — and other high-ranking corporate leaders like Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg.

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CEO Policies Politics Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In a knowledge economy, top-down direction is particularly detrimental because employees are bound to know more than their supervisors do about the specialized fields in which they operate. Knowledge management Leadership Managing people' They may also know more about the customer—his needs and desires. They have to have autonomy.”.

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

David Foster Wallace provided an eloquent description of how muscle memory contributes to "kinesthetic sense" in a brilliant New York Times article about Roger Federer in 2006. That's all well and good, you are probably thinking, but what does this have to do with innovation?

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Innovation Rogers Creativity Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Roger Schwarz. For example, research has identified three results that all leadership teams need to achieve: strong performance, positive working relationships, and individual well-being. The behaviors your team uses are driven by the mindset (that is, values and assumptions) you operate from. Stu Heinecke. Renee Cullinan.

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Construction Rogers Commitment Team 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Roger Martin and Sally Osberg argue in their new book, Getting Beyond Better , that the answer is social entrepreneurs, who target unjust and unsustainable systems — or “equilibria” — and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Photo courtesy of Riders for Health. It isn’t.”

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