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. How can CEOs avoid ending up on the “Worst CEOs of 2013”? Use of the company jet and employees for personal reasons. Failure to address lingering operational problems.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. Failure – The Foundation of Success When is the last time you celebrated a success at work? Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. Don’t hang on to yesterday’s success. Don’t try to resist technology in the workplace. Don’t wait to act.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Indeed, in the UK, dozens of energy companies face bankruptcy as the long-term contracts they have signed with customers on low prices render their business model unviable in a world in which the price of liquefied natural gas rose by two-thirds in less than a month. Solar as a service.

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 23, 2017

This may not sound like a surprising admission, since 74 percent of the US population surveyed in 2013 shares a fear of public speaking. I even formed a company called Eloqui , with my partner, David Booth, to train and coach professionals to be effective presenters and communicators. But technique is only part of the equation.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” Eich , Ph.D.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. Sam Walsh: I was looking for a fresh challenge in a global company run from Australia.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 22, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. Michelle Seiler Tucker Recently, Tucker answered the following questions: Question: Of the 6 essential components of a successful business, which one is typically the weakest going into a sale?

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 12, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. Michelle Seiler Tucker Recently, Tucker answered the following questions: Question: Of the 6 essential components of a successful business, which one is typically the weakest going into a sale?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 20, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. Michelle Seiler Tucker Today, Tucker answered the following questions: Question: Of the 6 essential components of a successful business, which one is typically the weakest going into a sale?

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

The company says it does 200 million consumer transactions a day. But despite that reach across civilization and into customer pockets, Mars is among the most secretive, insular, and little understood multinational companies around. For the first time, the company has made it onto Fortune's annual U.S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

If you’re like the majority of the Western world, you’re probably motivated by greater and greater personal financial success, the yardstick most leaders use to assess their value. But our individual success is not what we care most about. It gave employees a sense of pride about our company.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

Many chief executives and corporate boards recognize they need to alter or even drastically reshape their corporate culture, but few follow through and benefit from the successful transformation they envisioned. Among the successes of this project are: Service department sales up 22% in less than one year.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

February 11, 2013. In the absence of a guiding vision, good ideas represent low hanging fruit that unfocused leaders reflexively reach for, especially when pressured to report visible success. When each individual comes up with different good ideas, the operating environment quickly gets complicated. by Nathan Magnuson.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Despite the realization that computer software greatly enhances the efficiency with which businesses operates, the use of recruitment software is not widespread. Pre-screening tests allows the best candidates to be pinpointed, saving your company time and money. You just finished reading The Secret to Successful Recruiting !

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 25, 2017

At a time when workers feel a sense of disconnect with their jobs and companies-- a September 2015 Gallup Poll recorded U.S. Once he resolved to acknowledge how his behavior was creating organizational dysfunction and took corrective measures, the impact on the company's performance was dramatic.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels. Simply put, the underlying factor in the success rate of engaging our workforce and delivering change is leadership. Real Results.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 19, 2013

Now companies from software and health-care providers to manufacturers are radically remaking that model, shifting from expensive field staffs to more cost-efficient employees who use phones and computers to reach customers. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013 and "Ask the Coach". 2013 Business Resolutions.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

This gummed-up process of innovation is not confined to big-company transformation. When the term unicorn was first coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, there were just 39 private firms with valuations and revenue of over $1 billion. For all of its numerous flaws, the company was at one point valued at nearly $50 billion.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Jacobs Suchard Directors expected me to run their North American operation as an entrepreneurial enterprise, and as long as the returns were favorable, they assumed I was doing just that. That is not the case at Google, Zappos, Whole Foods, and several other new age companies. I wasn’t surprised in the least.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. As a start, companies may not have hypotheses that are ready to be tested. By early 2017, about 2.2

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Continuous performance improvement requires focus on both near-term operational priorities and long-term strategic capabilities and initiatives. A well-planned self-assessment calendar provides numerous coordination and resourcing benefits to the self-assessment program manager/group and operational business groups.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

Many companies have moved very quickly to work from home, closures, reduced hours, and other forms of reducing people-to-people transmission. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. This is facilitating very rapid and widespread social distancing.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Block provides operational executives and managers with the insight needed to relate ‘shop floor’ decisions and activities with the organization’s financial future. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Whole Business Thinking – A Guide To Exceptional Business Performance. by Robert S.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. The data with which is used to make decisions must be accurate, consistent, and reliable.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When it comes to leading teams, the common focus in the leadership literature tends to be on team building; on answering the question of how do we rally people and get them on board and aligned with our company’s vision or long-term goals. A Look Back At My Top 10 Leadership Insights From 2013.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

As I wrote in that earlier piece, our future success hinges on how well we connect where we need to go with what we’ve learned so far [ Share on Twitter ]. And this is understandable if we appreciate that – thanks to the faster-pace by which we now have to operate – it’s become harder for people to make those connections for themselves.”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Investing in research and development helps to establish this culture and ensure the company will remain ahead of the curve. Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Below is the copy of What we will Do (with the companies name removed) that I sent to the executive director and his team. Executive Director speaks about why all 95 staff members are here, Vision for the future, how the company is working towards that future, and Exec. The objectives for this project include; Have Fun!

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Operation: Starting Gun in Moore, OK, Summer 2013 Photo By: Kirk Jackson, Team Rubicon 1. It was a tough pill to swallow, but I clearly understood that my role as a leader from the rear and as a mentor helped contribute to the success of the team. Why do so many leaders and companies struggle with being transparent ?

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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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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Peter Fingar, co-author of Business Process Management : The Third Wave , then asks these measurement corollaries in his 2013 article “How Do Your BPM Metrics Measure Up?”. Are we doing things right? Are we doing the right things? Are we measuring things right? Are we measuring the right things? But what are these right measurements?

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 10, 2017

I think it helps provide Southwest focus in marketing and operations seeing how badly many of their competitors frustrate customers continually in very visible ways. The most despised companies all seem to do this (cable TV companies, airlines, mobile phone plans, some contractors…).

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

Most of the companies use only one waterfall funnel to represent company-wide inbound/outbound demand-based campaigns. Note: I fully recognize CPG companies do not fit this business model, but there are trillions of dollars represented in many other categories that do). 7 Keys to Executing a Successful Business Rebrand.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

Don Keough, company President, responded to the charge saying “We’re not that dumb, and we’re not that smart” Lesson: Expansion may require a bigger umbrella. Bezos’ ambitions were as large as the company name, and he eventually developed a business model that would include far more than books.

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