In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

There is no doubt in my mind that my ferocious competitive spirit is responsible for my success in corporate life. Competitive situations create a distinct individual and team behavior. Your success or failure can be quantified by such measurements as market share, financial ratios, brand awareness, new products and deadlines.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

The ethic of more balls in the air, more chances of success lurks in their subconscious. In a strategy seminar I asked the leadership team to tell me what business they were in. Here’s how the Fortis B2B team define themselves: Natural gas is our business. They cannot ignore the lure of opportunity – any opportunity.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 23, 2011

They want to know how to better trek Mount Here , the vista everyone on the team agreed to climb in the first place. Look at the success of Apple. Once strategists carve out their course of action, the best ones stick to it like glue. They don’t want to hear about the innumerable opportunities on Mount Elsewhere. What will we sell?

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

You see, the “talk” of cultural strategy (we called it the credo) that hung on the walls of the offices and the plant was “walked” by the leadership team. Key to success is the HR executive’s ability to instill trust at all levels. Take a look at the perennial success companies. CEOs must watch for that.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 22, 2013

Most of the lessons learned were from the errors the executive team made in the first frost that almost put us out of business. Today’s successful CEOs have little choice but to walk that talk. These CEOs deal with uncontrollable issues as the norm, and they have a better shot at a longer tenure – if they want it.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

if Apple would have been as successful had Steve Jobs not been ruthless, impatient, emotional, stubborn, intense, and controlling. On reflection, I should have paid attention to the unique personalities of my management team and made some adaptations that would have allowed their business lives to be even more fulfilling.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 18, 2015

And when you fail to demonstrate traits critical to successful leadership, the expectations of your colleagues and subordinates are dashed. I didn’t want to lose Walter because he was skilled at his job and a tier-one team player. One direct report does not make you a leader; nor does ten.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

After buckets of red ink and much soul searching, our young management team came to terms with the fact that Nabob could not survive as a ‘generalist’ against multi-nationals twenty times its size. Tough Sacrifice is the Secret to Success. By time the complexity dust cleared, two factories became one, ten product lines became two.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 9, 2011

To achieve this, Riley had to balance the tough academic demands and extracurricular endeavours required for entrance.Graduating Head Boy of Collingwood School, a member of its first 15 rugby team and a highly regarded YMCA councillor, Riley entered Yale University. Throughout his 4 years at Yale, he continued helping others.A

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Within every successful brand is a core promise. If HR’s promise is a “nimble, creative, get-it-done” team of employees, there is a host of ways to deliver and demonstrate this positioning. For the sake of brevity, I’ll list just five similarities between HR and brand marketing. Wal-Mart promises low prices, every day.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I remain impressed with the perennial success of P&G, L’Oreal, Nike, Whole Foods, Pernod Ricard, Apple, and Starbucks. A brand that has undergone successful surgery will have something compelling and tangible to say. Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? Some do it well. Champion the brand surgery and the convalescence, personally.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

A new management team pruned several of the acquisitions, stopped ‘doing more and more,’ and started ‘doing less better’ by giving their full attention to their core business, LEGO blocks. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers. Complexity had brought LEGO to its knees.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Essential to leadership presence at the top are several elements of substance that make for success over the long haul. They tell individuals and teams what they expect, and why the hard work that must be done is important to the entire organization. They have confidence in themselves and in those on their team.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Essential to leadership presence at the top are several elements of substance that make for success over the long haul. They tell individuals and teams what they expect, and why the hard work that must be done is important to the entire organization. They have confidence in themselves and in those on their team.

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