Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Accelerating globalization, technology convergence, volatile world financial markets and demands for ethical, environmentally responsible business practices are presenting organizations and their leaders with unprecedented challenges. You have to be vigilant in looking for signs that one of your markets is about to be affected.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

Guest post from Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell: In “ Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future ,” we outline the repercussions of the convergence of globalization 2.0, In the era of big collaboration, the ethicization of business, and the complexity that comes with globalization 2.0,

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Companies based on new technologies were acquiring monopoly power. Source: The New Yorker, November 18, 2013. Books Current Affairs Ethics Leadership Memes What is' The Progressives were also moralists. They loved the idea of purifying things that were unclean, corrupt or tainted. Taylor Caldwell: Captains and the Kings. .

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Taylorism Taylor Open-book Ethics 91

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 13, 2015

“Easily definable” is the element within visions that facilitates the ethic of simplicity, and doing less, better in this complex world of business. Clear visions work for inventors, athletes, sports teams, nations, and companies of all sizes and shapes. Great leaders envision a better place for every stakeholder”.

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Sports Ethics Travel Follow-up 100

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. Companies that just leave these matters for the IT department are most likely doomed. Worryingly, one recent survey indicated that while companies are investing heavily in Big Data, many employees lack data-mining and analytics skills.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Ethical consumerism is the broad label for companies providing products that appeal to people’s best selves (for example, fair trade coffee or a purchase that includes a donation to a charitable cause). This pessimistic stance stems primarily from the lower sales of ethical brands. We cannot shop our way to a better world.”

Ethics 8

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Many companies have become smart buyers, but many have become too smart. The typical request for proposal (RFP) has a bunch of standards about what has to be offered by the vendor, but far too little (or nothing) about what happens after the company takes ownership. It also lowers the profit of the company doing the bidding.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Every company needs it but rarely conducts the process because they’re knee-deep in daily minutia. by Hank Moore. About the Author.

Energy 55

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 55

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This holds true for any company, institution and for any person. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. by Hank Moore.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). I later reorganized his company. Meetings commenced at headquarters about the future direction of the company and the product. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

B Lab certifies companies based on how they create value for non-shareholding stakeholders, such as their employees, the local community, and the environment. How might leaders think about their fundamental organizational structure when they seek to communicate their values in a noisy marketplace of more conventional companies?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. and spends it in international markets. How did this happen? billion to $8.6

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The JP Morgan Chase board of directors has vexed the world with its terse announcement in a recent 8-K filing that CEO Jamie Dimon would receive a big pay raise — $20 million in total pay for 2013, up from $11.5 A legitimate case can be made for Dimon’s 2013 raise. million for 2012, a 74 percent increase.

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Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

John Mackey, co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, discovered his noble purpose early in his life. Mackey told us in our interview that he believes that in recent decades, capitalism has lost its ethical mooring and that the explosion of corporate scandals is evidence of this drifting. billion loan.

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Ethics Morale Airlines CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. If AI-guided investing can work for a person, can it also work for a company? Companies are both operators and investors.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

The essential problem (to wildly oversimplify) is that capital markets move up and down according to whether their own expectations, are met or surpassed, not according to the reality of how a company is performing — and not according to whether their own expectations make any sense. — Andy O'Connell.

CEO 8

CEO Rogers Wilde Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. Do you have a strong work ethic?’” He may take a corporate job, he says — or he may open a sailing company.

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Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Across Europe, the 2013 horsemeat scandal generated widespread panic about contaminated meat. Despite the great strides that McDonald’s has made in some markets, its progress and practices have not been uniform. Last year McDonalds — and other major food companies — were plunged into a food safety scandal in China.

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Supply Chain Reputation Brand Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Consider: Employees, entrepreneurs, and agency partners have flooded the site, pasting in marketing copy for every company product, adding the official bio for each and every senior executive, and including voluminous details of every CSR initiative to their organization’s corporate page.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Your company probably has a hierarchical process for deciding the proper course of action, and that process probably doesn''t put you at the center of the matter. But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense). — actually lead to more-productive employees and companies?

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Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “The city is currently soliciting proposals from tech companies to test and develop driverless car and roadside sensor technology.”

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Is your company poised to build the next Uber? Have you started imagining how cryptocurrencies could be used to shore up your company’s digital security? Have you considered that the algorithms your company uses might inadvertently be lying to you? All without you explicitly asking it to do so.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Safeguarding your company in a complex world. Even the words we say on Twitter , the things we like on Facebook , the websites we tend to visit, and the sound of our voices can be turned into a fairly detailed psychological profile, and the potential for trading this data is by no means confined to the world of marketing.

Media 10

Media Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

The boss asks how long she’s been with the company. Companies of all kinds are obsessed with understanding them better. Hundreds of firms, speakers, authors and individual experts are vying for a share of the “Millennials are Different” segment of the $150 billion-a-year global HR consulting market.

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Survey Consultative Seminar Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

. “Think about ‘male’ leader characteristics: confident, assertive, stand up for what they believe in,” points out Katherine Phillips, senior vice dean of Columbia Business School and the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics. We have seen companies in our Task Force of 87 global organizations making inroads.

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Management Diversity Report Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). The earlier essay, "The Nature of the Firm," is justly famous for its introduction to economic literature of the concept of market friction, or what Coase called "transaction costs."

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