Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2013

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! Each of the leadership bloggers below were asked to submit their best (i.e., I'd say that's pretty darn efficient leadership development. Anne Perschel , from Germane Insights, picked Dear CEO: What's Your 400 Year Business Plan?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Here are a selection of tweets from February 2013 that you might have missed: From @GECoachingGroup: Do organisations limit leadership development to 'hi-potentials'? Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's work-from-home memo is childish by Emma Gilbey Keller at The Guardian. Yahoo Marissa Mayer | Management Misstep by @jamesstrock.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 28, 2013

This post first appeared 1/24/2013 on SmartBlog on Leadership : The year 2013 has begun, and with it a new year of scrutinizing CEO performance. The Bloomberg Businessweek Worst CEOs of 2012. Forbes the Worst CEO Screw-ups of 2012. Herb Greenberg’s Worst CEO of 2012 (CNBC). Poor talent management.

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leaderCommunicator

DECEMBER 19, 2013

I’ve reviewed our blog posts from 2013, and I love seeing which topics and interests resonated with you. Here are the top 7 most popular blog posts of 2013, counting down from number 7: Number 7: 8 Tips for Leadership When Communicating During Tough Times. Number 3: AOL CEO Fires Employee During Call Intended to Boost Morale.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Whether leading an emerging growth company or a large multi-national corporation, aside from the CEO , there is arguably no position that has impact and contribution like the CHRO. Second, they must become a trusted consigliere to the CEO. He is a highly valued and trusted thought partner to CEO Bruce Broussar d.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 29, 2013

This post was originally published in SmartBrief on Leadership 7/25/2013: “Moneyball” was a book and movie based on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and his use of statistics (sabermetrics, to be precise) to get the most production out of his team by spending the least amount of money. Source: Great Leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

And, ultimately we were able to work together as we brought a leadership development program to her company. I’m super excited to put those things into practice and to continue to grow my leadership skills as a result. The final of five interviews for my first role at my current company was with the CEO and co-founder.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

This post is by Linda Fisher Thornton the author of 7 Lenses: Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership. Our understanding of "ethical leadership" has not been clear enough to guide us through today’s complex ethical choices. To a third, it means fair labor and responsible people management practices.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 31, 2013

Marshall has been nominated for the 2013 Thinkers50 Leadership Award. Best-selling books include: · Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning – Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2013. Coaching for Leadership: Writings on Leadership from the World’s Greatest Coaches – Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer 2012.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. If the VP improved, I’d get paid and if not I told the CEO it was free. This simple model for leadership development works!

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

CEO Interview: Sam Walsh. This edition of the CEO interview features Sam Walsh, the recently retired CEO, of Rio Tinto. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. (as featured in mining.com). On with the interview.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2014

In her book My Life in Leadership , Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, and one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever met, wrote one of the best descriptions of listening and leadership I’ve ever read: “Listening is an art.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

(The picture that accompanies this post is me in that moment from 2013.). In case you’re not familiar with it, the Pit is the well at the bottom of an amphitheater style room that seats about a hundred people on GE’s Crotonville leadership development campus in the Hudson River Valley. It’s long been said that time is money.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 14, 2014

Your CEO walks into your office with the same urgent document that you already know about. Some people use anger as a management tool to some success. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. It can get people’s attention.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Here are a selection of tweets from December 2012 that you might have missed: Curated by @wallybock: 13 Sets of Predictions for 2013. Three Ways to Behave Yourself to Better Leadership by @scotteblin. BusinessWeek: The Worst CEOS of 2012. The Secret Ingredient of Brilliant Leaders and Managers by @pdiscoveryuk.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

They forget that for leadership to work, for business to excel, you need a balance. Great leaders understand that their values are the stamp of their leadership, but they will go out of their way to show appreciation for others; for who they are and what matters to them. © 2013 Lolly Daskal. Connect with Lolly Daskal.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

First Borders, then Barnes & Noble CEOs make the wrong leadership decisions. As the business grew, it was time for the Borders brothers to hire a professional CEO. Tom Borders told me that they decided to hire a CEO whose experience was in retailing versus a strategic marketing expert. While sales at U.S.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 1, 2014

The reason we don’t want to give it is because our leaders and managers have power over us, our paychecks, advancement, and job security. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

Gregg Steinhafel, former Chairman and CEO of Target Corporation stepped down earlier this month. The primary reason stated was because of the continued fall-out from the 2013 massive data breach. Technology expertise in this case, by the way, does not refer to the CEO or former CEO of a technology company.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 1, 2013

Here’s to an even tougher competition in 2013! The Top 10 Twitter Accounts for Servant Leadership. Here they are, The top 10 Twitter accounts for Servant Leadership followers in 2012: 10. James has many books on Leadership that continue to be a great foundation for insights. James Strock ( @jamesstrock ).

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 28, 2014

A pioneer in the use of customized, 360 degree feedback (confidential feedback from direct reports, peers and managers) as a leadership development tool, I’ve spent the last 30 years using feedback to help people change for the better. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Perhaps a manager is present to take care of the problem, or maybe you have to wait for a phone call; either way, neither you nor the employee are pleased with the lack of progress during your interaction. This disenchantment is painfully clear in the Gallup 2013 State of the American Workplace survey.

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Delegation Leadership Customer Loyalty Morale 229

HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

We bring you a list of books that women entrepreneurs must read to find the right balance between leadership and ownership of self. The same goes for women in leadership roles. Leadership qualities are not gender-based but rather on your personality traits, strengths, and superior intellect. by Ryan Holiday.

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Books Entrepreneur Leadership Advice 105

Mills Scofield

APRIL 7, 2013

If you want your message to get out intact – whether it’s about who you are as a leader, or the vision you have for your company – you need take a step too few executives bother to do: create your leadership narrative. You don’t have to have a leadership narrative; plenty of executives and companies get by without one.

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Leadership Brand Review Learning-by-Doing 184

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

In the 2013 Top 10 Premier league players, only 2 (Wayne Rooney and Daniel Sturridge) are English, the others are from Uruguay (Luis Suarez), Holland (Robin van Persie), Germany (Mesut Ozil), the Ivory Coast (Yaya Toure), Belgium (Vincent Kompany), Argentina (Sergio Aguer0), Spain (Juan Mata), and Denmark (Christian Eriksen).

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Chart Your Course

MARCH 4, 2015

2015 CEO Challenge Conference Board Report , The Conference Board, 2015. Predictions for 2014 – Building a Strong Talent Pipeline Josh Bersin, December 2013. Gallup’s 2013 State of the American Workplace Report June 2013. Gallup’s 2012 Q12 Meta-Analysis Research Paper February 2013.

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The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

With permission to reprint his article “Hire for Will; Teach the Skill,” Ron Alvesteffer, CEO, SEI Service Express, Inc., Reprinted with permission from March 27, 2013). Work loads are compounded, the recruiting process must begin all over again, and the pressure that hiring managers feel is exacerbated.

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CEO Skills Learning-by-Doing Process 109

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos abhors what he calls “social cohesion,” the natural impulse to seek consensus. Managers in departments of 50 people or more are often required to “top-grade” their subordinates on a curve and must dismiss the least effective performers. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 14, 2013.

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Leadership Consensus Retail Career 91

Women on Business

MARCH 13, 2013

For starters, only 4% of America’s major corporations currently have female CEOs. It didn’t take me long to find this Forbes.com list of The 10 Best companies For Women in 2013 , which led me to several other insightful, related reads, including this and this. ALL TALK, NO ACTION? What do you think of No.4:

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Brigette Hyacinth

JANUARY 25, 2021

Leadership is about inspiring greatness in others. Bill Nuti former CEO at NCR Corp – While the company’s revenues grew to $6.2 billion in 2013 from $6.0 billion in 2012, employees showed a strong dislike of their CEO, Bill Nuti. Great leaders are in the construction not the demolition business.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Shawn Hunter The Wisdom of Titans: Secrets of Success from Entrepreneurs Who Rose to the Top William Ferguson The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership […].

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

At Encore Capital Group, a debt collection company, CEO Brandon Black and his employees decided that “restoring dignity and creating a path toward financial independence” for their customers was a core tenet of their noble goal. I believe Encore’s runaway success was directly tied to this shift in management philosophy and culture.

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Goal Motivation Learning-by-Doing CEO 171

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Perhaps it is some combination of them, some attainable format for effective leadership that requires work, certainly, but that also works. To help us piece this together, I’ve invited fifteen different thought leaders, authors, editors, and CEOs to collaborate with me to parse this question and share their opinions.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

My entry into Reality-Based Leadership started with the Open-Door Policy. For the first time, I would be leading a team, which got me a free ticket to the Human Resources boot camp for managers. Designed to prepare me for my new organizational role, it was a crash course in the current conventional wisdom around leadership.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. As a manager “on loan” to Abbott from the University of Michigan, I quickly found similarities between the two organizations. They can pose major challenges for today’s managers, especially if those managers are part of a different generation.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Involve the leaders being coached in determining the desired behavior in their leadership roles. The people that I coach (in agreement with their managers) work with me to determine desired leadership behavior. My clients and their managers (unless my client is the CEO) agree upon the desired behavior for change.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: Catmull and John Lasseter, Pixar’s CEO, were appointed to lead the unit as president and CEO, respectively. Care about people first.

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