Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

The Lean CEO : Leading the Way to World-Class Excellence by Jacob Stoller Lean is not just a manufacturing system. The Lean CEO gets to the heart of what it means to lead from anywhere. Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer Leadership BS is a compendium of human nature. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Strive Masiyiwa was interviewing him to be CEO of the Nigeria telecoms venture lead by Econet Group, which Strive founded and chairs. ’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. Of course, it helps you understand those foreign markets.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Special Edition 65 – An Interview with Ed Reilly, editor of AMA Business Boot Camp explores today’s management and leadership challenges and the fundamentals that will help those in these senior positions achieve ongoing career success. Ed Reilly is the 17th President and CEO of the American Management Association International.

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 19, 2016

She’s still the CEO of Mitchell Communications, but also now the CEO of the global Dentsu Aegis Public Relations Network. Mitchell carefully mapped out her career as a rising executive. ” There are some things only a CEO can (and should) do. ” Mitchell made the most of the road she found herself on.

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 19, 2016

She’s still the CEO of Mitchell Communications, but also now the CEO of the global Dentsu Aegis Public Relations Network. Mitchell carefully mapped out her career as a rising executive. ” There are some things only a CEO can (and should) do. ” Mitchell made the most of the road she found herself on.

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Public Relations Stress CEO Learning-by-Doing 40

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s partners eventually sold Tesla Electric Light Company’s patents to George Westinghouse, CEO of the Westinghouse Electric Company. says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). “I Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?)

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

Mary Barra, Meg Whitman, Indra Nooyi: These are just three of the women who have successfully broken through the notorious “glass ceiling” to become CEOs of large public firms. We found that female CEOs face a greater threat of shareholder activism than male CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. ” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2013

The second time I was in the market to buy. How would you approach the market of sales professionals and sales management? Their boss would buy it, they would buy it, their CEO would buy it, and their spouse would buy it. Search LinkedIn by keyword to see who may be “looking for career offers.” Gerhard, No. Go Phillies!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Research I conducted in 2012, 2013, and 2014 with the global advertising agency J. with people ranging from janitors to CEOs, old as well as young — were thinking of changing not just their jobs, but their careers. But it’s hard to jettison a career decades in the making in the pursuit of something new.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. DAVID: Yeah. I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent. HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

At Nike, a large and well-resourced design function reports directly to CEO, Mark Parker, who early in his tenure was a designer himself. In Interbrand’s 2013 list of the World’s most valuable brands , Nike ranks 24 th , two slots up from the prior year and a 13% increase in value to $17.085 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Mark Thain, Director of Social Innovation at Barclays, said: “Barclays has run such programs since 2013 and committed several million dollars to new products, services, and even a new line of business, surfacing hundreds of intrapreneurs in the process.” ” Develop: Let them improvise.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

” When I made it past the lobby and into the CEO’s office, I asked about the daily booze service. The CEO talked about how difficult it is to recruit top talent. So I’m well-versed in the challenges of recruiting (and retaining) top technical talent in a tight market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. Write a letter to the company’s board demanding that it do something different from what it’s doing (buy back shares, break up, sell out to another company, throw out the CEO). Wait a while. Sell stock in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

New research led by Lan Jiang, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Oregon, shows that if you give a shopper an unearned reward, she’ll probably have mixed feelings if she’s observed by other people, such as shopper No. growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. 999,999, who didn’t get anything.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

As someone who had spent most of his career working in and cofounding startups, it was big, heady stuff. Marketers market themselves, directors research deals, the executive talent team doesn’t recruit — that is very much “organism think.” Not just the strategy team, not just the CEO, but everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In early 2013, when factory conditions in Bangladesh came to light , Nike cut ties to some suppliers whose factories were deemed unsafe—even at the expense of its margins and in the face of declining profitability relative to competitors. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Add to Cart.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This has certainly been the case at HeroX, a spinout from the XPRIZE group that was created in 2013 with the express wish to make it easier for organizations to create the kind of challenges for which the XPRIZE have become famous. But if trained the right way, juniors have tremendous potential,” József Boda, CEO of CodeCool told me.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. The biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is delaying the first step until they have settled on a destination. Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? They “carved out time on nights and weekends” to do research and market analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. Find new growth markets – fast.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. Its CEO (John Y. ” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

We were working hard on getting product-market fit right, so anything we could do to get more customers and to find the right feature mix was a critical learning opportunity. If someone had a marketing grader idea, chances are I would say “yes” to it. It empowered my team to move fast and get things done.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Another big factor is the lack of women in high-paying leadership roles: Only 4% of S&P 500 CEOs are women, according to Catalyst. employees who successfully completed our survey between July 2013 and July 2015. employees who successfully completed our survey between July 2013 and July 2015. engineering, computer science).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

By 2013, we had honored Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Garrett Camp of Uber, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Gangnam style pop artist Psy. So she wrote a memo to the CEO explaining why gender balance is good for business. If you say we should, let’s do it. In 2010, the first year, the event was fledgling, but charming.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

These larger companies, once considered pinnacles of career opportunity, have become employers of last resort. In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. Corporate executives spent months trying to nail down a new market strategy.

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