Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

My entry into Reality-Based Leadership started with the Open-Door Policy. Designed to prepare me for my new organizational role, it was a crash course in the current conventional wisdom around leadership. Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, international leadership speaker, and consultant. Shut the Conventional Door. An open door?

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 17, 2023

Risk-averse approach The researchers analyzed financial data from over 200 companies that were included in the Forbes 500 list between 2014 and 2017. They only analyzed companies where the CEO was hired between 2011 and 2013, and who had also stayed in post until at least 2018.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

To be recognized on the 2020 Top CHRO List, the words leadership, team, succession, purpose, culture, governance, and diversity are not just buzzwords – they represent who a CHRO is, what they believe, and where they work every day. Prior to AMB, Chang held senior HR leadership roles with Equifax and Turner Broadcasting.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In the United States alone, there are 11 million meetings daily (Koehn 2013). A guest lecturer in organizational change at Benedictine University, Emily also coached participants in University of Chicago’s Leadership Arts Program. Create a meeting environment where everyone puts their paddle in the water.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

In 2013, a TechRepublic and ZDNet survey found that 62 percent of companies already had or will launch some form of BYOD program by the end of that year. Additionally, Gartner predicts that half of American companies will require employees to supply their own device by 2017.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 7, 2019

In fact the 20 most popular posts were all originally published before 2017. Deming’s 14 Points for Management (2013). Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities (2013). Where There is Fear You Do Not Get Honest Figures (2013)*. Institute Leadership (2016)*. Create Constancy of Purpose (2015).

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Coaching Tip

MAY 26, 2016

mpg of a 2013 Ford Fusion HYBRID over 27,500 miles. . Today, automotive leadership is taking a wider view of future mobile operations to improve transportation alternatives beyond today's personal vehicle usage. 2017 Ford Fusion Energi Prices. mpg to April 2016 at 25.2 Our personal family average mpg experience is: 27.4

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe.

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HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Under her leadership, IBM has incorporated automation and AI throughout the employee life cycle. Leadership skills, confidence and the courage to pursue the unconventional, are the traits that brought her the HR Executive of the Year Award-2018. and ultimately, my leadership career here at IBM. Diane Gherson | CHRO, IBM.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

By early 2017, about 2.2 Managers are no exception, especially when incentives favor finding causal relationships between variables that are difficult to measure, such as changes in leadership style and team performance. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

As an author, speaker, consultant, coach, and, according to some, a thought leader on Extreme Leadership (and according to others, a clown, I suspect), I spend a good bit of time looking for the real thought leaders in business. Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner , Co-founders of the Leadership Challenge . They will never steer you wrong.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Then Ayse asked us to describe what made us think of them as heroes.

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Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

As an author, speaker, consultant, coach, and, according to some, a thought leader on Extreme Leadership (and according to others, a clown, I suspect), I spend a good bit of time looking for the real thought leaders in business. Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner , Co-founders of the Leadership Challenge . They will never steer you wrong.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2017: NASA’s move to Houston, 55th. Trait-centered Leadership vs. Servant Leadership. Living in the past is not good, nor is living in the present without wisdom of the past. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012. Civil Rights Act, 50th.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods was met with a lot of fanfare. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. Yongyuan Dai/Getty Images. Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

So far in 2017, our firm, Semler Brossy, has identified 200 shareholder proposals on the environment among the Russell 3000 companies, already exceeding 2016’s total. Since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in 2013, garment retailers such as Walmart have contributed to improving working conditions for workers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Therefore the most important aim for digital companies is to achieve market leadership, create network effects , and command a “winner-take-all” profit structure. billion and $0.8

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

While there are some factors that make social innovation more likely than not — such as intrapreneurs who will champion them — Davis and White find that competing for talent, strong brands, and leadership transitions all correlate with stronger social initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

“One of the most attractive aspects of returning was that the company had grown considerably while retaining most of the same senior leadership team I was familiar with,” she says. But in 2013, after five years at the company, she resigned. In July 2017 she made the decision to boomerang back to Profiles.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The close-knit sisters lived together for more than a dozen years but then went their separate ways after in 2013. Williams scored a historic victory at the 2017 Australian Open, winning her 23rd Grand Slam title after defeating her sister Venus, 6-4 6-4. And they got married in 2017 and are now proud parents of a daughter.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. But I would suggest that there is something more fundamental happening behind the numbers; something lurking in the very nature of digital marketing and what it asks of leadership and what it means for accountability.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Nonetheless, between 2012 and mid-2103, Banner has captured nearly $70 million in savings, and by 2017, the savings will contribute $256 million annually to its bottom line. Finally, the leadership team, in partnership with Booz & Company, invited people from across the system to collaborate in cost reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

See if you can determine where the team went wrong: Ana is the experienced, 39-year-old project manager of a global semiconductor company’s strategically important effort to create an innovative driver-interface system for the 2017 model of a European automaker’s most popular passenger car.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. Digital players wield outsize market power.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Questions can be adapted to resonate with each CEO’s way of thinking, but would typically include ones pertaining to personal vision, strategy, organization, and leadership, such as: What is the purpose of the company? By the end of 2013, emails were reduced by 60%.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 23, 2017

And he incorrectly claimed that ridership on Washington's subway system was higher than on Inauguration Day in 2013. Sources: The New York Times (Jan 22, 2017) and The Wall Street Journal (Jan 23, 2017). million people had attended his inauguration, a claim that photographs disproved. Related articles.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The loss of American trade leadership could hardly come at a worse time. This uncertainty calls for political leadership. Moreover, the Senate Republican leadership will have little incentive to push the TPP if a newly-elected President Clinton opposes it, especially if Republicans lose their majority in the Senate.

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