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.

Chief Executive Officer 97

Chief Executive Officer eBook Leadership Leadership Styles 97

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Perhaps two of the biggest barriers today to establishing and perpetuating an enduring corporate culture are: excessive CEO and executive compensation packages, reflective of greed and a short-term mindset; and. They understood the impact that a strong, adaptive corporate culture has on organizational performance, the true mark of leadership.

Decentralization 284

Decentralization Organizational Behavior Short-term Public Relations 284

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

On Thursday, November 7 from 1:30 to 2:45 pm EST, Herrmann International CEO Ann Herrmann-Nehdi will be part of a technology panel at the 2013 Americas NeuroLeadership Summit in Washington, DC, discussing how our understanding of the brain can provide new possibilities for improving leadership and organizational performance.

Human Capital 70

Human Capital Brainstorming Human Resources Technology 70

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.

Competitive Advantage 285

Competitive Advantage Film Creativity Open-book 285

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

But eConsultancy’s 2013 Cross-Channel Marketing Report found that 70 percent of business owners feel acquisitions are definitely more expensive than retention. The 2013 GE Capital Major Purchase Shopper Study found that 81 percent of consumers will research a product online before buying it. Live Chat Online.

Quality 182

Quality Succession White Paper Customer Loyalty 182

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Amar told me in 2013 that some factors have changed since he first published his findings, for example, access to capital is more widespread through crowd-funding, along with a mainstream popularization of entrepreneurship and rise of a global startup ecosystem. Ben Milne, CEO and Co-Founder of Dwolla advises, “There’s no science in business.

Execution 229

Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 229

Chart Your Course

JUNE 24, 2013

According to a May 2013 survey from email marketing company Constant Contact, 59 percent of small businesses say running their business is harder today than it was five years ago. Plus more than half say the bad economy is the main reason for their troubles, followed by changing technologies and an increase in direct competition.

Directory 170

Directory Trends Media Newsletter 170

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2016

A very wise leader, Alan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford and Fortune’s #3 greatest leader in the world 2013, once told me, “The key to your success is having great customers. Almost all of the people I know who call themselves executive coaches are coaches in the area of leadership behavior. I said, “What’s his problem?”

Govindarajan 101

Govindarajan Executive Coaching Porter Pharmaceuticals 101

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. Pawel Motyl – Formerly CEO HBR Poland, noted speaker, consultant and executive coach, author Labirynt. at Walgreens.

Disruptive Innovation 70

Disruptive Innovation Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO 70

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Pawel Motyl – Formerly CEO Harvard Business Review Poland, noted speaker, consultant and executive coach, author Labirynt Sztuka podejmowania decyzji. Liz Wiseman – Bestselling author of Multipliers, Thinkers 50 Top Ten Leadership Thinker 2015-17, Winner of the ATD Champion of Talent Award. Ayse Birsel – One of the Inc.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Tesla’s partners eventually sold Tesla Electric Light Company’s patents to George Westinghouse, CEO of the Westinghouse Electric Company. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Innovation Capital.

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The

Quality 70

Quality Health Care Case Study Education 70

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Startup CEOs need to know how to act once they realize that a new revenue stream is growing faster than the original business concept. As CEO and founder of two of the fastest growing digital advertising companies in the country, I’ve had to make that decision twice. Don’t forget that business is a leap of faith.

Business Model 73

Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. And that can become a big problem as illustrated by Jim Barksdale, the former CEO of Netscape, who once reportedly said: “If we have data, let’s look at the data. They must embrace a new leadership model.

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Deming Institute

MAY 26, 2016

Ian Bradbury, President and CEO of Peaker Services, Inc. Langford, President & CEO, Langford International. Kentaro Toyama, Associate Professor, University of Michigan – School of Information and Author of ”Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology”. Kevin Cahill, Executive Director of The W.

Deming 28

Deming Conference P&L Seminar 28

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.

Education 52

Education Software Skills Engineering 52

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Weed out early on; technology helps. So, isn’t it time that you examined the root causes of your bad hires and learned how to incorporate science and technology into your hiring practices? Utilizing more than a decade of human capital management, sales and leadership experience, Greg Moran is Founder and CEO of Chequed.com.

Quality 68

Quality Pre-Employment Screening Talent Management Reference 68

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. Only four percent of the CEOs in Fortune's top 1,000 companies are female and less than 20 percent of Congress is female. That sounds like progress.

Leadership Pipeline 8

Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

When it comes to social media, today’s CEOs have made a remarkable transition over the past five years. We audited a range of sites and platforms to see how CEOs are engaging socially and compared these results to its 2010 and 2012 findings. WANTED: #CEO for our iconic british brand. NextGreatLeader.

Media 8

Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

PriceWaterhouseCoopers unveiled their annual CEO survey at this year's meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos. The survey offers a broad sentiment sample from over 1300 CEOs from 68 countries. Of the CEOs surveyed, 50%-plus said things will stay the same for their companies. That correlates with what your survey reports.

Survey 8

Survey CEO Insurance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

CEOs have a lot to worry about, but what are their greatest concerns? We interviewed 24 CEOs and asked them to name the biggest challenges facing their organizations. Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). Talent Management.

CEO 8

CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The Google/Alphabet metamorphosis has catapulted Sundar Pichai into one of the highest profile leadership jobs in Silicon Valley. And third, his belief that technology is an equalizing force. The old Google had always been a tricky leadership challenge. So what should we expect from the leader of this “new” Google?

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

New research, conducted with HBR, The Economist , CEB, and TNS Global, reveals that CEOs believe CIOs are not in sync with the new issues CEOs are facing. CEOs also tell us that CIOs do not understand where the business needs to go and how IT should support strategic goals. Barriers to entry have been destroyed. IT management'

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. The new CEO, John Flannery, is focused primarily on cutting costs. Other senior executives have left as well.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2018

In many industries, especially in technology, you may feel “old” at 35 — even though you might continue to work full-time until you hit 75. As a young tech leader asked me the other day, “How can I microwave my leadership skills?” They fear becoming increasingly invisible, or even being cast aside.

Diversity 13

Diversity Emotional Intelligence Class CEO 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired an Employee in Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. A recording of the incident went viral.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Long-term Short-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million. that has both organizational and technological components. billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

CEOs face countless decisions. While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people. Decision making Leadership'

P&L 8

P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

We found that in 2014 almost 60% of these firms had no female board members, just over half had no female C-suite executives, and fewer than 5% had a female CEO. Our results indicate that the impact of having more women in the C-suite is bigger than that of having a woman on the board or as the CEO. The quota policy has its critics.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Diversity Policies Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

They are called upon to advise companies that must manage risk in an increasingly complex global operating environment and navigate disruptive technologies that threaten their business models. Prospective directors should ask themselves if the company has a unique advantage that can be translated into industry leadership.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Advice Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” Leadership roles and responsibilities. The CEO came to a meeting, and that wall was knocked down.

Ries 11

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 11

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.)

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11