Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized again as one of the top ten Most-Influential Business Thinkers in the World and the top-ranked executive coach at the 2013 biennial Thinkers50 ceremony in London! is from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management where he was recognized as the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year. Goldsmith’s Ph.D.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

And while CEO Tim Dagenais says that’s pretty good for a company that size in those Upper Peninsula markets, he wanted to do better. In 2013 we figured we reached the point where about 85% of our people where the type of people we could count on to take our company to the next level,” Dagenais says.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 26, 2019

Seymour is a Founding Member of Paradigm for Parity -- a movement of CEOs, senior executives, board members, and business academics committed to achieving gender parity at the senior levels of all major corporations by 2030.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013, Professor at INSEAD, best-selling author Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Everett Alexander – Start up and family business coach, financial advisor and fund manager. Sztuka podejmowania decyzji.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Pawel Motyl – Formerly CEO Harvard Business Review Poland, noted speaker, consultant and executive coach, author Labirynt Sztuka podejmowania decyzji.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 2, 2018

Seymour is a Founding Member of Paradigm for Parity -- a movement of CEOs, senior executives, board members, and business academics committed to achieving gender parity at the senior levels of all major corporations by 2030. Thank you to the book publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2013

With the right metrics, HR can not only deliver additional value, savings, and increased productivity to the business, but also can more clearly articulate to the CEO and executive team the vital role HR plays in business success. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Seymour is a Founding Member of Paradigm for Parity -- a movement of CEOs, senior executives, board members, and business academics committed to achieving gender parity at the senior levels of all major corporations by 2030. Thank you to the book publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

During my tenure as a CEO, my Board of Directors never posed questions pertaining to corporate culture. In 2013, Zappos continues to amaze under this culturally insightful leader. In 1986, he instituted a policy whereby any employee can look up the salary and bonus of others, including the top management. That’s a big mistake.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 23, 2013

Office cliques can affect workplace culture in a variety of ways.according to nationwide survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder from May 14 to June 5, 2013, among a representative sample of nearly 3,000 full-time, private sector U.S. The survey found that not all managers succeed at staying neutral.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

The Families and Work Institute’s 2014 National Study of Employers finds that, compared to six years ago when it conducted the same survey, several numbers have moved in the right direction: Employers have continued to increase their provision of options that allow at least some employees to better manage the times and places in which they work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” Senior management at the new company knew him, his successful track record, and the companies he’d worked for. Slam dunk, right?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. Management theorist Peter Drucker was famously curious.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But building a consistently strong top leadership team is difficult for at least three reasons: the tendency to be loyal to existing members, the lack of management depth to promote from, and many CEOs’ lack of experience in many functional areas. Four months later the CEO fired him. But when it’s a team of six?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). These managers also bring a valuable perspective to the table.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Yet in today’s rapidly evolving, 24/7 workplaces, it’s not always clear what managers should do to create the most satisfying work experiences and the happiest employees. If you supervise others, make sure you do the following: Manage individuals, not teams. But this is also the manager’s responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Anyone who has hiring responsibilities in 2013 would like to think that the U.S. The reality is that while your company may manage diversity, it probably doesn''t hold anyone accountable for whether your applicants and employees are treated fairly and without regard to gender, race, and ethnicity in hiring and promotion decisions.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. Managers meet regularly, not just annually, with individual employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W. The chair of the new three-person committee, Richard L.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

In an interview he told us: “SASB has now issued standards for 45 industries in six sectors The specific issues we examine for human capital include labor relations; fair labor practices; employee health, safety and wellbeing; diversity and inclusion; compensation and benefits; and recruitment, development and retention.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

The CEO is the only non-independent director on 60 percent of the boards, up from 23 percent. By 2013, that fixed portion had dropped from 63 to 16 percent while the incentive fraction soared from 17 to 66 percent. He presses the directors “to be active” with management — but at the same time “not too active.” Hockaday Jr.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Managing HR-related data is critical to any organization’s success. HR leaders in 2013 and 2016 and found that HR departments that use all of the LAMP elements play a stronger strategic role in their organizations. Vincent Tsui for HBR. And yet progress in HR analytics has been glacially slow. Consulting firms in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. This is a management failure, not a technological problem. So who''s responsible for information security in your company?

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. For Majority of Workers, Vacation Days Go Unused Boston Globe, December 2013. Gallup’s Workplace Jedi on How to Fix Our Employee Engagement Problem Fast Company, June, 2013. Employee Engagement in Tough Times Management Issues, October 2009.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. Futren President and CEO Mitch Rhoden is a second-generation executive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO. And that really is on the backs of marketing.” That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers. We focused on the soft qualities that managers often overlook in their zeal for short-term results.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. In any case, this is an indicator of wasted resources, and wasted dreams.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

He's the CEO of a 400-person (and growing) company, and a happy stress case most of the time. Blow up the old job spec and write a paragraph in human English about what's going on in your shop and what you're after in 2013. Total train wreck, when I actually sat down with him." I could tell he was frustrated. Easy as pie.

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