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A different kind of thanks. Yours.

Strategy Driven

Call me old-fashioned, or call me traditional, but I don’t think you can call me ‘wrong.’ Your humor, your friendliness, your helpfulness, your approachability, your trustworthiness, your honesty, your ethics, and maybe even your morality. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Tough list, eh?).

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Reprise: Interview with Sir Marshall Goldsmith and Chip Bell on Effective Mentoring

QAspire

Bell in 2013 when they released their book Managers as Mentors. With a firm belief that great ideas need to be repeatedly shared, I am re-posting the 2013 interview along with a revised sketchnote summary. .” The old-fashioned view of mentoring as someone outside the leader’s chain of command it no longer relevant.

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Jamie Dimon’s Pay Raise Sends Mixed Signals on Culture and Accountability

Harvard Business Review

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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Working as a Prison Guard Convinced Me That Bosses Should Never, Ever Date Subordinates

Harvard Business Review

At 22, I was lonely, living in a new city, and handling the transition from college to the real world in a reluctant fashion. In prison, the ethics and the tradeoff were apparent. For the employee, a transfer can be interpreted as a punishment since the manager is the one who is obliged to act ethically in this situation.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

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. He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star. Henrik Bunge is one such leader.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. If AI-guided investing can work for a person, can it also work for a company?

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

I became him, after a fashion, since I am 65 now. Ethics cannot be edicted from afar. The ethical conduct of business has a direct relationship on the ability to grow and prosper.). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. I was being groomed by my mentors to be a White House advisor, which I later became.