Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Entrepreneurs willing to invest the time and effort into satisfying the most valuable component of their business are setting themselves up for long-term success. A great product alone is not enough to sustain and grow revenues in a global marketplace with seemingly endless options for customers to consider. Retention Is Key.

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Quality Succession White Paper Customer Loyalty 182

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Tim ended the post with his theory: “Strategic planning is simply an invention to justify the existence of middle management, and not a useful tool for those doing the actual leading or for the guys at the bottom doing the real work.”. SP is necessary, but only successful when linking the long-term strategic priorities to today’s actions.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 104

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

My mission is to help successful leaders achieve positive, long-term, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. I believe that many leadership coaches are paid for the wrong reasons. Neither of these is a good metric for achieving a positive, long-term change in behavior.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

Tim ended the post with his theory: “Strategic planning is simply an invention to justify the existence of middle management, and not a useful tool for those doing the actual leading or for the guys at the bottom doing the real work.”. His project and product management skill set provide the process oriented mindset to drive this objective.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 74

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 382

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Roundtable Talk

MAY 18, 2011

After an affair with an IMF staffer back in 2008, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted as saying: “The personal behaviour of the managing director sets an important tone for the institution. This is the job of leadership, and the Board members are the de facto “leaders” of this type of organization… the chair reports to them.

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Crisis Management Reputation Hotels Committee 34

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

But even so, they led their companies to great long-term financial performance. What then were the leadership characteristics that separated the winning leaders from their industry peers? Their experience can guide leaders who now must lead in today's disruptive world. Yes, but here's the rub.

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Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 10, 2017

Participants were asked what one thing they wished they could change about their manager. The second most popular answer was to have their manager quit. Here’s how you can begin your transition from manager to magnetic leader. Be open to the possibility that you may need to do rethink your approach to management.

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Tips How To Open-book Consultative 182

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership. You can count on opposition.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.". It is logically impossible to maximize in more than one dimension at the same time.

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Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For example, employees may be reluctant to report safety issues or errors for fear of being reprimanded by their managers or shunned by their colleagues. The most effective way to build a culture of transparency begins with those in leadership positions. There can be many barriers, some of which can be quite complex.

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Health Care Quality Report Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? Randy MacDonald: "We observed that 80% of leadership development is based on work experience. Fostered global teamwork.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Then there''s JC Penney, where Ackman''s push to remake the retailer under the leadership of former Apple Stores chief Ron Johnson has ended in red ink and recriminations. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. I''m not joining in.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

But we believe this diversity framework, though somewhat artificial (as all frameworks are) can be useful to companies who are trying to refresh their approach to managing diversity. Managing identities of origin. In 2002 the company hired a chief diversity officer, Anand Rohini, to make diversity a priority. Consider Sodexho.

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Diversity Human Resources Policies Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The CEO of Volkswagen from 1993 to 2002 was famous for his willingness to demote or fire employees who failed to meet expectations. What’s the tone from upper management? Do they talk more about maximizing profits and hitting quarterly numbers, or do they talk more about optimizing value for the long term?

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Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. And managers focused on immediate total shareholder returns may be delighted with high performance. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. points p.a., points p.a.,

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. What if, instead of trying to fix people, we assumed that they were already full of potential and created an environment that promoted their long-term well-being?

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Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

That's almost 14 years as CEO — a long time, considering that the average CEO tenure for large U.S. The question on the minds of most managers around the world is, well, how did he do this (and can we learn some of those things)? There is a long build-up period, followed by a rapid increase. companies is around six years.

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Asked about retirement in 2002, he replied , "I had a great-grandmother who worked until she was 108 and then died in an accident.". It is the terms of that takeover that Greenberg is challenging with his lawsuit. In an age of short-term, hired-hand CEOs, there's a lot to admire in his commitment. Le entreprise, c'est moi.

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Insurance Long-term Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings. Visionary leadership is also about helping the company overcome inertia so that it can shift effectively from one frame of mind to another when the time comes.

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

While our own physicians are still largely reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis from non-Geisinger insurance payers, since 2002, we’ve been using the following 80/20 compensation model: 80% of total cash compensation is based on the usual piecework metrics: panel size, number of patients seen, number of work units performed, and so on.

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Insurance Cost Incentives Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

When you borrow talent, you obtain what you need more cost effectively than hiring it and without making a long-term commitment; and when you lend talent you’re offering your stars and high-potentials new opportunities for growth and development that they might not otherwise get within the confines of your organization.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else. Crisis management'

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Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. K-Mart, long the dominant discount chain had gotten comfortable with its leads over competitors. Doing Things as We Always Have.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 59

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

We were completing a year in which 58,009 people would participate in one of our long-distance walks or rides for charity, and would raise $169 million in contributions for AIDS, breast cancer and suicide prevention — $32 million more than the year before, which was $31 million more than the year before that. Sixteen U.S. Or calling.

Teamwork 14

Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 14

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I did a quick Google search for the term business coach and received 116 million returned results – if that doesn’t scare you it should. So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction?

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. Perhaps most critically, the key fault with so many of these business and leadership articles on generational differences is that there’s no evidence-based, empirical studies to back up their assertions. Badger J.M., Severt J.B & Gade P.A.

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 243

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2012

What makes Project Managers successful? But there’s one thing that the best, most valued Project Managers have in common. They understand that using a single management style in every situation won’t get results. Here are five of the most common leadership style and guidelines on when to use them. They’re artful leaders.

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Leadership Styles Project Management Succession 244

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Another client introduced a connected product that required the user to go through a long set up process, including setting a clock. No innovation remains innovative for long. Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. Setting a clock?

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Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8