Next Level Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Shades came to our house as a puppy in 2001 just a week before 9/11. Thorndike, we decided to put him down last weekend. If you’ve owned a dog that’s become part of your family, I don’t have to tell you how hard the last couple of weeks have been for us.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

I N SEPTEMBER 2001, Jack Welch was a tough act to follow. And in 2001, the economic tailwinds that Welch enjoyed were about to shift. The day after Jeffrey Immelt became CEO of General Electric, he had an even bigger challenge to deal with—the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But numbers can hide looming issues until they don’t.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 17, 2011

Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell’s Soup (2001 to 2011) knows how to stay on task; all successful leaders do. He’s setting up his office in Philadelphia after retiring from Campbell’s on July 31. When he picked up the phone, he was unpacking boxes. I asked him what was happening in his life. Doug has a [.].

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 22, 2013

For example, within a matter of hours following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, aircraft carriers, Aegis destroyers and cruisers were in position to protect America’s shores. Command and control of the Navy was quickly reestablished at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This approach was first popularized in the 1980′s by Jack Welch at GE and further reinforced in 2001 by Jim Collins who told us to “get the right people on the bus and the wrong people off.” ” By 2012, 60% of Fortune 500 firms were using some variation of this approach. → Read More: Forget the Bus!

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General Leadership

MAY 22, 2021

… Read the rest.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Back in 2001, in the article "Executive Control of Cognitive Processes in Task Switching," found in the Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, Vol 27. And a recent (September 2009) article from the Harvard Business School (HBS) references another study from Stanford University that supports the 2001 study.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

He then started Menlo Innovations in 2001, with the express purpose of ” bringing joy to the world through software “ Menlo has gone on to win the Alfred P. Sloan award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility for eight straight years and has earned five revenue awards from Inc. magazine.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2012

First published in a 2001 Harvard Business Review article, and then in the book, " From Good to Great , Collin’s leadership model describes kind of a hierarchy of leadership capabilities, with level 5 being a mix of humility and will. I’ve always liked the Leadership Practices Inventory 360 degree assessment that supports the model.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

He was the CEO of Southwest Airlines during the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. I’m still grappling with Jim Parker’s advice. Jim said, “I don’t think I smiled for two years.” When… Continue reading →

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

A FTER THE TERRORIST ATTACKS on September 11, 2001 and on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Major General James Mattis needed to connect with every member of the 1st Marine Division.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 27, 2011

12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor Gail McMeekin Conari Press (2001) Note: I re-read this book while formulating questions for an interview of its author, Gail McMeekin. If anything, her insights offer even greater value now than they did years ago when the book was first published. This is another of several [.].

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Within a matter of hours following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, aircraft carriers, Aegis destroyers, and cruisers were in position to protect America’s shores. As the Navy improved sailor retention and developed greater alignment with Admiral Clark’s vision, it became faster and more responsive.

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General Leadership

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

We pause today to remember the events which occurred on 11 September 2001, and reflect upon how they completely changed our nation, our people and our world. GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link].

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you remember the eras of 1987 or 2001-2002 or 2007-2008 your experience might be similar. It wasn’t the mesmerizing essence of magic like the chalk talk in the analogy described here, but there was renewed hope because employees were invited to peer into the future, share the vision and understand that there was a distinct plan.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

One of my favorite change quotes comes from a book by Michael Fullan, a Canadian expert on educational change, who wrote in Leading in a Culture of Change [2001]: “Change is a double-edged sword. Its relentless pace these days runs us off our feet.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JANUARY 29, 2012

Although I didn’t include “write a book” in my 2000 or 2001 goals, it was still on the wall embedded in my 1999 goals. In late 2001, something amazing happened. I was so proud I decided to leave my goals on the wall as a reminder. Glancing at it occasionally, I had a sense that someday I’d come back to that one.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Those proportions have risen, particularly for women, over the years: In 2001 the figures were 38 percent of women and 27 percent of men. Christianne M. Corbett, AAUW senior researcher and co-author of the report], said the findings demonstrate how much women struggle because of the gender pay gap.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Bush’s administration as the Under Secretary for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy between 2001 and 2003. She went on to hold the position of CEO for two more major ad agencies, Tatham-Laird & Kudner and Ogilvy & Mather and was named the most powerful women in America by Fortune magazine in 1997.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 26, 2018

Guest post from Sander Flaum: Back in 2001, when I was asked to lead a forum in leadership at what is now the Fordham Gabelli Graduate School of Business, the concept was to bring noted leaders (business and otherwise) into a classroom where they could share their experiences and insights with MBA students.

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Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Since 2001, the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey has compared hospitals’ performance on the national standards of safety, quality, and efficiency that are most relevant to consumers and purchasers of care.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 2, 2016

From 1991 to 2001, when Bill George was CEO of Medtronic, a maker of pacemakers, defibrillators, stents, catheters, shunts, and surgical tools, he held a holiday party each year where six individuals who benefitted from Medtronic products told their stories. Examples of Gratitude in Action. The great British writer G.K.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 24, 2012

Within hours after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, destroyers and cruisers were in place to protect America’s shores. Naval leaders anticipated what had to be done and took action before they received orders. At the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.,

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In 2001, she founded Reality-Based Leadership. No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results can be purchased here. Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, international leadership speaker, and consultant.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 3, 2022

With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product. Great examples of Blue Ocean companies are Apple and Netflix. Apple always aims to set itself apart from competitors not by price but by competitive advantages based on product design that attracts customers.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

in 2001, I worked for a boutique strategy consulting firm out of Princeton, NJ that developed and delivered high-cost elaborate strategic plans. The second data point was that most employee engagement surveys and the firms that employed them were extremely heavy on reporting data overload, but weak on meaningful implementation.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Since 2001, the Corporate Recruiters Survey has been produced annually by the GMAC, a global nonprofit education group of leading graduate business schools and the administrator of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

in 2001 and just over 4% by 2011. It’s a finding the researchers believe demonstrates the stability of multi-ethnic neighborhoods in the UK, as 88% of the multi-ethnic neighborhoods in 1991 had retained their diversity when assessed again in 2001. The data shows that multi-ethnic neighborhoods have grown from 0.5%

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CEO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And then of course 2001-2009 - Gone (as is often the case, it took a long time to be gone). The book is probably worth reading just for that list. The first section is called "the Good" - 1949 to 1970. Then "Almost gone" 1971-1977. Then "the Great Years" 1978 to 2000.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 26, 2011

Timothy Stagich (2001) writes that personnel (HR) departments are “blackholes of human potential, buried under piles of resumes and red tape, while relying on hierarchies and cumbersome procedures to justify their existence in hierarchies (p.114). We investigate and critique with vengeance and fail to understand our own departments.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 13, 2011

Norton, Harvard Business School Press, The Strategy-Focused Organization, 2001). [2] Norton, Harvard Business School Press, The Strategy-Focused Organization, 2001). [3] Only 5% of employees understand their corporate strategy.[4]. 92% of organizations do not measure performance indicators.[5]. Cited Sources: [1] (R. Kaplan and D.

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LDRLB

MARCH 9, 2011

I came across an interesting comment recently: “Firms need to think more strategically about developing not just managers or global managers, but alliance managers, as they will run the companies of the future” (Isabella & Spekman, 2001, p.240). This may be too much for a North American leader to do though. Isabella, L.A. &

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 14, 2013

I was looking over some of my “earlier” First Friday Book Synopsis handouts (some of them were not as thorough as my current handouts), and I ran across the one on the early Michael Lewis book: NEXT: The Future Just Happened (2001). Here are two excerpts from the book: In the long run the Internet […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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LDRLB

APRIL 18, 2011

Crabtree (2001), in his provocative article on global leadership, writes that “thinking globally used to require conscious attention to the differences that exist between different markets. Now it requires constant attention to the increasing similarities and the opportunities and threats created by them” (p.58). Crabtree, H.R. McCall (Eds).

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Globalization Rogers Human Resources Letter 102

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 17, 2022

GUEST POST from Greg Satell It’s hard to find anyone who wouldn’t agree that Microsoft’s 2001 antitrust case was a disaster for the company. Not only did it lose the case, but it wasted time, money and—perhaps most importantly—focus on … Continue reading →

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace.

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QAspire

MAY 20, 2018

During 2001 dot com bubble, one of my friends, a competent software developer, was laid off because of lack of business in the technology he worked in. I created a series of sketch notes for Tiffani Bova’s “ What’s Next ” podcast where she meets brilliant people to discuss customer experience, growth and innovation.

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