Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

” Stephens joined Marco’s Pizza in 2004 when it was a successful but regional chain operating 110 stores in three states. For Stephens, though, love is not an abstraction–it’s the underlying motivation for everything he does as president and COO. ” Raise others up. But Stephens points out something more.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We do not work with leaders who are not really motivated to change. We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management. I slowly learned that a motivated, hard-working client was more important than a brilliant coach!

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Howard Morgan and I published an article titled “Leadership Is a Contact Sport” in the fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business that involved more than 86,000 respondents from eight major corporations. Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to interview hundreds of leaders in the did-nothing category.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. Overlooking this practice results in missed opportunities to foster and encourage motivation, creativity, and innovation. Be proactive.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

The real problem is the managers who lack either the courage or the discipline required to deliver effective feedback. Research reported in the Fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business shows that the long-term follow-up and involvement of coworkers tends to be highly correlated with positive change in the perceived effectiveness of leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

In 2004, Greece surprised the world by winning the European Championship, the toughest tournament in international soccer. These key management elements have been found to work even with B players, and could transform a team of average individual contributors into an over-performing team. They are: Vision. Why is feedback so important?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

This question was at the heart of a recent study we conducted that is forthcoming at the Academy of Management Journal. In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. In 2004, he joined the board of Petsmart Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. Kristin Dadey has managed programs for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency, for the past 15 years. She recalls her time working in the Taliban-controlled Afghani province of Kandahar as the most challenging of her career to date.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Management was about effective structuring of enterprises and administration of their workings. On the fact that some executives had the ability to inspire, motivate, and discern the challenges of the future better than others, management theory was largely silent. Warren liked to call himself lucky.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Although champions are not the ultimate decision makers, and they rarely have substantial power within their organization, they have four things that make them irreplaceable in developing and closing the deal: credibility, connections, company intelligence, and motivation. That’s where the fourth element comes in: motivation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

My research has shown that there are ways for everyone — from the managers of sales teams, to executives in government agencies, to computer engineers, to florists, to coaches — to achieve professional success without always having to sacrifice the things that matter in their personal lives. Career planning Work life balance'

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Succession COO Career Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

You’re thinking about making a career change (or perhaps getting your first real job out of grad school), and you’re looking at different types of organizations. But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

The media reported that he was motivated "because he badly wants to compete in triathlons and running events again" and his lifetime ban extends to those sports; a confession may win him a reprieve. There's no doubt the interview marks a new phase of Armstrong's career: the deception ended, and ready for a fresh start.

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