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Will Aetna CEO Transform Healthcare (and CEO Leadership While He’s at it)?

Michael Lee Stallard

Bertolini’s message is that healthcare is broken and that he is committed to fixing it. In 2004, Bertolini was seriously injured in a ski accident that fractured his neck in five places and left him struggling to recover his health. Bertolini asked human resources to look into it. He knows fixing healthcare is important.

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Investing In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

It all adds up to a gradual, or even rapid, erosion of trust and commitment, which in turn undermines productivity. Redundancies made in haste leave an indelible mark on the employees left behind, especially as their work is likely to intensify in the absence of former colleagues. Supporting the foundations.

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

Our most successful coaching clients are executives who are committed to being great role models for leadership development and for living their company’s values. After reviewing their plans, I almost always encourage them to live up to their own commitments. Goldsmith in strategy+business, Fall 2004. References. Gandossy and M.

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The Scaling Lesson from Facebook’s Miraculous 10-Year Rise

Harvard Business Review

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Facebook’s focus on spreading the right mindset became clear to us when, in late 2007 and early 2008, researcher and consultant Beth Benjamin and I had a series of conversations with Chris Cox, then Facebook’s 25 year-old head of Human Resources.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

From that point on, they committed themselves to soft drinks. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. Coca-Cola’s focus begins at 30,000 feet, where corporate strategy is crafted. Back in 1989, Coke divested Columbia pictures, the last of their non-beverage businesses. Complexity had brought LEGO to its knees.

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How HR and Judges Made It Almost Impossible for Victims of Sexual Harassment to Win in Court

Harvard Business Review

In many ways, the current state of court decisions begins in a familiar place: human resources departments. Later, Brent Nakamura and I coded and analyzed a follow-up representative sample of 164 court decisions at five-year intervals after 1999: 2004, 2009, and 2014. The Birth of Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policies.