Women on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The year is almost over, and as we prepare to enter 2013, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the data that quantifies the gender gap that women in business face. Let’s hope the numbers continue to change for the positive in 2013 so companies hire and promote powerful, diverse teams and leaders. Women in Technology.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. The post Leadership Lesson from an Off-Road Champion Driver appeared first on Elements of Leadership.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

First Borders, then Barnes & Noble CEOs make the wrong leadership decisions. That executive decision began the downfall of the company. That executive decision began the downfall of the company. Mr. Lynch had been named chief executive in March 2010, having previously run the company''s website. Related articles.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. 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. And that would be a good thing. * * *.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. Given the number of baby boomers expected to retire between now and 2030 (the last group of baby boomers reach of the age of 65 in 2030, and, of course, some may choose to work past age 65) organizations need to prepare others to take over leadership roles.

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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. The post Leadership Lesson from an Off-Road Champion Driver appeared first on CO2 Coaching. Communicate!

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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. The post Leadership Lesson from an Off-Road Champion Driver appeared first on CO2 Partners. Communicate!

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 8, 2017

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. If you can’t step away from technology completely during work, consider limiting how often you check email.

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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. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that not all executive coaching engagements are successful. If you have a great customer, your process will always work.

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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. The post Leadership Lesson from an Off-Road Champion Driver appeared first on CO2 Partners. Communicate!

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CO2

DECEMBER 1, 2014

While leaders benefit from many technological advances, too, their work doesn’t seem to get easier. I had a chance to discuss the parallels between driving and leadership with Peter Hajas , who knows a lot about both. The post Leadership Lesson from an Off-Road Champion Driver appeared first on CO2 Partners. Communicate!

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

They represent all kinds of different people who are interested in this field, including: thought leaders, authors, external coaches – to family business, small business and large business, internal coaches and executives. David Peterson – Pioneer executive coach, head of coaching at Google, author Development FIRST and Leader as Coach.

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HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

The contribution of technology in improving customer experience is well documented, but little has been done in using it for enriching workplace experiences. Diane Gherson is a trailblazer when it comes to introducing agile technologies in the gamut of Human Resources. Digital technologies forced-disruption of all that.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

I asked executive and super-networker Vala Afshar if he thought there were any common traits or patterns that could be ‘taught’ or encouraged for networking. BIF BIF10 Brown University CCChampions Cancer HBR Innovation Leadership Networking Sidney Kushner Storytelling Strategy Vala Afshar Virtues-Values'

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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.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. Managers are no exception, especially when incentives favor finding causal relationships between variables that are difficult to measure, such as changes in leadership style and team performance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. Ultimately, technology has to serve us, not the other way around.

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Deming Institute

MAY 26, 2016

Kevin Cahill, Executive Director of The W. Kentaro Toyama, Associate Professor, University of Michigan – School of Information and Author of ”Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology”. Ian Bradbury, President and CEO of Peaker Services, Inc. Edwards Deming Institute®. Clifford L. Related: The W.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

institutionalized mistrust, resignation, or resentment), technology addiction (which can make it difficult for some people to actually talk to others), or a simple incompetence for speaking and listening. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This lack of listening can be the result of degenerative moods (e.g.,

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. These moves helped to focus executive attention and ensure that quality initiatives actually got carried out. Having any more than that risks diluting executive focus. had a diversity metric.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Relate Articles: Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean? Suppressing Innovation. About the Author.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2013

HR.com, the largest social network and online community of HR executives shares some eye-opening information about who you are really hiring. 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?

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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. Women have fewer leadership role models and they arguably have greater demands outside of work competing for their attention. That sounds like progress.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But when the authors led 15 executives through a variation on the classic Start/Stop/Continue exercise — where they inventoried what they actually did each day, judged which tasks mattered most to them and their organization, and dropped or delegated the rest — they found they could free up as much as 20% of their time.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. Technology is but one tool of the trade. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they're victims of it. Trait-centered Leadership vs. Servant Leadership. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Other senior executives have left as well. GE is hardly the only company to run into performance issues and sooner-than-expected executive departures in the midst of a huge digital transformation effort. We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The room had the organization’s top sixty leaders of a large technology services company. This was the core issue that this team of senior leaders had to confront – the poor leadership culture that they allowed to exist in their organization. I’ve been a business leader and leadership consultant for most of my career.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. We evaluated the leadership practices and effectiveness of 60,000 managers and executives in 140+ countries and 26 industries. I would say yes – and that it’s the most important thing you can do as a leader.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the UK alone, a 2014 report from the chief medical officer for England estimates, the number of sick days lost to “stress, depression, and anxiety” increased by 24% from 2009 to 2013. Soon, face- and voice- recognition technology will almost certainly be good enough to provide a richer experience to these and other use cases.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? years in 2013 from 60.3 Of course, age isn’t everything; nor is having a digitally-savvy non-executive director a guarantee of success for your digital transformation.). Not likely. in 2003, an all-time high. (Of

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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.” It took a lot of pressure off the team so they could focus on execution and not on cost.”

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