Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Here, McBean shares the importance of leadership: Being a leader sounds like a great thing to be -- and it certainly is. But here is the rub: though the word "leadership" gets tossed around a lot, real, productive leadership is still very uncommon. Sure, leadership can be more complicated than this.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 20, 2016

More than half of all Americans are female, yet this gender split is not reflected in today’s job market, especially in more executive-level roles. There is a large body of research indicating the organizational, marketing and financial benefits of an equitable gender mix in management and worker-team groups.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Note: Understanding that the point of shaping and visionary strategies is to "change the game" rather than to optimize your position in the market may be all that's needed to avoid starting with the wrong approach. John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership (ebook formats at $2.99) John G.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

Across retail, automotive, financial services, and technology a number of common factors emerged that underpinned the ability of companies to weather the Covid storm. For instance, the most successful companies were able to move more decisively when both exploring and exploiting new opportunities. “The Cultural similarities.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. With his friend Bill Sterett, he purchased an underperforming automotive dealership in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1992.

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Automotive Succession Open-book Retail 71

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

But in the world of leadership, humor has typically been typecast as a manifestation of individual personalities and thereby a spontaneous and non-replicable activity. This works because all the participants have come to trust and respect one another – but leadership still actively moderates to ensure that no red-lines are crossed.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 16, 2014

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. With his friend Bill Sterett, he purchased an underperforming automotive dealership in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1992.

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Automotive Open-book Retail Long-term 56

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2013

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. With his friend Bill Sterett, he purchased an underperforming automotive dealership in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1992.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 billion and is estimated to be worth $48 billion by 2026, with the Covid pandemic driving growth, especially in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, but also in sectors such as automotive and defense. “ There are cases with upload speeds of over 1Gbps.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Kellogg Company has taken great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I). Last year, the team ventured into the marketing space by partnering with the business to bring braille and audio options to the packaging of our Rice Krispies Treats “Love Notes” campaign.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 27, 2012

Bob Lutz former Vice Chairman of General Motors, president of Chrysler, as well as an executive at both Ford and BMW, conceived the Chevy Volt as his last automotive project. In The New York Times of April 22, 2012, a former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Purpose , Team Building , Trust Tagged: | Albert J. Weatherhead , camaraderie , collaboration , Communication , employee development , energy , respect « A new Leadership Development Carnival The power of influence » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

Rather than developing a narrow self-image that pigeonholes a firm in a particular market sector, or locks it up in a certain product or service category, radical innovators are able to stretch the way they define their business based on its collection of core competencies and strategic assets.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Our world is too complex, markets too volatile, and technology too fast-paced for us to relax into complacency about organizational safety and normalcy. A 25-year veteran in senior human resources and leadership and development roles in four multinational companies, Harry Hutson is now an independent consultant. About the Authors.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Moreover, it’s hard. “I says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). and we like to stick to our knitting.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive. PERSEVERANCE.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? In the meantime, of course, there’s no guarantee that Tesla will be the winner in any automotive technology arms race. For now, Tesla has none of these.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

The uncertain nature of trade policy has left many leadership teams reluctant to act. Leadership teams can limit the negative consequences of a possible NAFTA withdrawal and currency moves by adopting an approach that anticipates several future scenarios. producers to lower their prices in foreign markets, raising demand for U.S.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

An automobile manufacturer got it right when it tried to crack the Indian market. Based on this competitive analysis, it decided to build relationships with a network of dealerships in these smaller markets. However, its orders were actually tied to the number of new automotive projects (e.g. Choose the right trends.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Though we enjoy writing about dropout tech legends, most times their success is catalyzed by others — they came up with the ideas and the investors provided the leadership and the non-tech factors (such as pricing models, branding, and promotions, among others) that propelled them to stardom. Most times, those people are not techies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Ghosn recounts with humor how Dr. V.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Far from drinking the company Kool-Aid, they had an understanding of why and how the company had to change to deal with new opportunities and challenges posed by changing markets and technology. Fields spent nearly a decade overseas learning how to compete with leaders in the industry in their markets.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership. All of these efforts worked to transform Ford -- the company was restored to profitability and the brand, to preeminence.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10, and generated 50% more earnings (defined by market capitalization).

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Company Ethics Automotive Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Ford or Tesla? Rolls Royce or IBM? Caterpillar or Microsoft?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

I recently conducted a study of 56 randomly selected companies involved in major change and innovation efforts in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Leadership development Leadership transitions Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Your company has (mostly) solved product/market fit. What to do. What to do. What not to do.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

When then-Johnson & Johnson CEO Jim Burke learned of a Tylenol tampering incident, he immediately ordered the removal of all Tylenol bottles from the market, and sorted out cause and responsibility later — a famous lesson since taught to generations of business school students. Crisis management Leadership transitions Military'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Alan Mulally creates a “working–together” spirit at Ford Motor Company that focuses and re-energizes the automaker, reversing a decades-long slide in market share. Under Herb Kelleher’s leadership, the company became known for its sense of humor, irreverence, and focus on the employee. Southwest Airlines is the classic example.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

industries: 35 advanced manufacturing industries such as automotive and aerospace manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors; three energy industries including electric power generation; and 12 service industries, from software design to telecommunications. average (20%) of highly intensive STEM occupations. Yet, there is a problem.

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