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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

His oldest son George Walker Bush was elected the 43rd President of the United States in 2001 becoming the second president to assume the nation's highest office after his father, following the footsteps of John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams. Shortly after leaving the Navy, Bush married Barbara Pierce.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2022

In Estonia, for instance, the X-Road platform aims to connect the information systems of every government department so that citizens only have to tell the state once about any particular life event rather than dealing separately with each relevant department.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 1, 2014

economic system that many believe is stacked against them. The 47% of respondents who called for a less-active role in world affairs marked a larger share than in similar polling in 2001, 1997 and 1995. Similarly, the Pew Research Center last year found a record 53% saying that the U.S.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Upon co-authoring his 2001 book, Profit Beyond Measure , (with Anders Bröms) he achieved this notoriety by dedicating himself to offering interested listeners and readers an alternative solution, which he refers to as Management by Means or MBM.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? After all, some apps do not run on old antiquated operating systems. revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 11, 2018

The bulk of Muller’s research is devoted to case studies in colleges, elementary schools, health care systems, policing, the military, business, finance, philanthropy and foreign aid. Deming cared most about how measurement was appropriately used to better understand and improve the overall system. It may well become a classic.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A deliberately byzantine system of virtual tunnels that conceal the origins and destinations of data, and thus the identity of clients, Tor has been around since 2001, when programmers from M.I.T. That could change anytime. and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory introduced it at a California security conference. “As

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Agile Manifesto written by a collection of 17 bright minds in 2001 , gave rise to a collection of values to guide software development in an agile, adaptive manner. Originally designed for software development, Agile has gained traction in various business functions, including HR, due to its adaptive and iterative approach to work.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. He left behind a lovely wife and 3 small children.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 18, 2012

This step will help you understand why your "immune system to change" is working against getting you where you want to be. The above exercise is taken from the book, " How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work " by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey (Jossey-Bass 2001). . “On

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The Idolbuster

JULY 16, 2012

In both 1998, and 2001, the top officials at Penn State University decided not to report assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky for child abuse, who in 2012 was convicted of 45 counts, including crimes that happened after 2001. Why did this happen?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Before the energy conglomerate’s collapse in 2001, I had the opportunity to review Enron’s values. If changing the words on the page could improve the performance management process, every company’s appraisal system would be perfect by now. Enron is a great example.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He bootstrapped his first business, United Systems Integrators (USI) Corporation, a corporate real estate outsourcing firm, and grew it into an Inc. In 2001, Ed earned Entrepreneur of the Year honors from Ernst & Young. 500 company.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2016

He bootstrapped his first business, United Systems Integrators (USI) Corporation, a corporate real estate outsourcing firm, and grew it into an Inc. In 2001, Ed earned Entrepreneur of the Year honors from Ernst & Young. 500 company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

In Greece alone, $49 billion worth of legal goods and services, about $4,380 per capita , escaped taxation in 2001–2002. If countries such as Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were to adopt Finland’s vigorous level of enforcement, their tax revenues would increase by an average of 12% , Kuehn says.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

When it’s time to hire for critical positions within your company, consider the training and certification in military systems offered to service men and women. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for this most recent group of transitioning service members is 5.8 percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Our flagship product since 1994 has been a breakthrough highly customizable multi-purpose web-based feedback survey system called 20/20 Insight GOLD. To address the problem with a technology solution, my company began development of ProStar , a web-based learner support system to serve as a "virtual coach" during the period of follow-up.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

He bootstrapped his first business, United Systems Integrators (USI) Corporation, a corporate real estate outsourcing firm, and grew it into an Inc. In 2001, Ed earned Entrepreneur of the Year honors from Ernst & Young. 500 company.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 3, 2014

In 2001, Jeffery W. In telling his story, Mr. Greenberg’s primary observations were not about executing business disaster recovery plans or repositioning Data Centres and telecommunications systems but about the people in his organization; their courage, resilience and determination to pick up the pieces and move on.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

JANUARY 1, 2010

An updated version, The New Psycho-Cybernetics , was published in 2001, with new examples, material and editing by one of my marketing mentors, Dan Kennedy. Ive been doing that as president of Performance Support Systems and as an entrepreneur for the past 27 years.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the HAL 9000 computer with its rogue personality. I remember telling my friends that by 2001 we would all have a HAL to help us manage our lives. Moreover, small web-based AI systems that are close to deployment offer great potential for improving worker productivity.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

This is problematic when you consider the Navy’s sophisticated surveillance, navigation and weapons systems and the importance of maintaining the readiness of national defense. Clark changed legacy systems that made sailors feel devalued. One such system was the Navy’s job assignment process.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. University of Texas System, 50th. My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know. The Astrodome, 50th.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

When the recession of 2001 hit, I had to restructure my business. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., The red flag was waving. My friend was bored in retirement and loved dabbling in business. It made him feel young again. since 1987.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

The federal government’s lack of preparedness and inadequate response to Katrina met with widespread criticism, and the need for a more robust system to respond to natural catastrophes emerged as one of the key lessons from the 2005 storm. The Health System Was Frail Even Before the Storm.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

By creating a system that puts them together as much as possible, that makes their training more uniform, that gives them better benchmarks, that shows them how each person will contribute to the group effort. And it helped when, in 2001, he ceded the role of national team coordinator to his "more diplomatic" wife, Marta. But the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

in 2001 to 16% in 2015. administrators for every tenured or tenure-track faculty member within the UC system. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. workforce grew by 90%, while employment in other occupations grew by less than 40%. A similar trend can be found in other OECD countries.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In December, 2001, just prior to filing for bankruptcy, Enron Corporation had approximately $2 billion in cash and no debt coming due. In a keynote speech , he said Enron went bankrupt because of "decisions" made in October 2001. Enron owned the largest natural gas pipeline system in the U.S., So why did Enron go bankrupt?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work." In 2001, they called Steve Jobs "The Graying Prince of a Shrinking Kingdom." Advantage instead went to the horizontal layers of chips and operating systems (cue Wintel). I don't think they understand the game Apple is playing.

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Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. The product owner is commonly someone with a solid understanding of users, the market place, the competition, and of future trends for the product, service, or type of system being developed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

” Our reasoning is that the present system fails miserably at distinguishing between large and small risks. The problem with our present warning system is that it shouts “Danger!” Such a system is of little value; people quickly learn to ignore warnings since they encounter vastly more puppies than wolves.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

We believe that organizations need to explicitly develop two parallel management systems: the operational system that manages the short-term execution of work — what we call the "Surface System," and a second system that focuses externally on sensing and driving strategic change — what we call the "Deep System."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Fifteen years in to the 21 st century, 2 billion smartphones had shipped, and Microsoft’s mobile OS share is 1%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

would be better off with a “territorial with teeth” tax system in which income earned overseas isn’t taxed here. He’d also be happy with keeping the worldwide system but no longer exempting from it, as the tax code does now, earnings that are retained overseas.).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

At Microsoft, Eichenwald argues, leaders established "a corporate culture that by 2001 was heading down the path of self-immolating chaos." The company's stacked-ranking system, for example, required managers to rate employees according to a bell-curve pattern.

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