Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 93

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

Be sure to check out the book's Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

CEO 85

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 85

Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

This focus on short-term challenges neglects the development of essential management and leadership skills. Julie Harris - phs group phs is the UK’s leading hygiene service provider in healthcare, washroom and floorcare hygiene and also operates a number of specialist businesses providing key services to organisations.

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Productivity Products Short-term Proposal 52

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Be sure to check out the book's Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It takes effective leadership with the right tone at the top and leaders who will nurture the right culture to build the organization needed to become the preferred provider to your markets. Effective leaders know how to achieve operational excellence, and they embrace continuous improvement. ” -Stan Silverman. How to Earn Trust.

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Silverman Career Succession Ethics 108

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy).

Influence 291

Influence Due Diligence CIO Business Model 291

Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. For example, in the mid-1990s, Chase Bank witnessed a nine digit windfall predicting mortgage outcome. These predicaments matter. Risky debtors are given too much credit.

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Learning-by-Doing Insurance Wireless Discount 277

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You can be reached from anywhere and find the market you need instantly with a few search engine terms, and then operate on a larger scale than you ever would have been able to in the past. It Affects Our Operating Size. As a result, it’s such a powerful time to run a business.

Technology 51

Technology Software Charisma Operations 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The engineers around the punchcard reader had not been engaged in idle banter. The efficiency expert calculated that eliminating this lost time would more than pay for purchasing a teletype for each programmer, so they could enter their code from their desks instead of wandering to the punchcard reader. Productivity plummeted.

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Mayo Executive Coaching Efficiency Handbook 146

Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This principle holds true and it holds true for your leadership and your work. It’s hard to believe we’re in season 12 of Leadership Without Losing Your Soul already. In fact, US engineers dismissed suspension bridges as unsafe in general, much less for a railroad. Getting Small. I’ll give you a hint.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 5, 2015

Of course, what makes this NASA employee’s response so noteworthy is the fact that he wasn’t one of the engineers or scientists involved in designing the rockets or overseeing the lunar missions. Not to mention the faster pace by which we now have to operate amid a sea of rising distractions vying for our attention.

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Environment Long-term Short-term Succession 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. First, consider short-term profits and sanctions, and the cautionary tale of French bank BNP Paribas. The compass that was guiding the bank was a financial one.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 12

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. Folks at Danone learned it from Grameen Bank Founder Mohammad Yunus, who asked them to consider putting Danone’s special formula nutrient in an edible cover, not a disposable package. We live in a complex world.

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Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

A classic example of this phenomenon, which I chronicled in my book Mavericks at Work , was the game-changing performance of Commerce Bank, one of the most colorful institutions in the history of retail banking. Ten years later, after a period of massive growth, the company sold itself to TD Bank in a stock transaction worth $8.5

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Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. For example, Dr. Velma Deleveaux, a director at Booz Allen Hamilton, leads a Science and Engineering business.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Success with change is less like engineering an event and more like navigating a journey. Being Change-friendly operates from a platform of respect and caring, not intimidation and contention. Why settle for less?

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Hotels Stress Resistance Restructuring 124

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Every high performer needs both. This is also true of executives.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Gledhill is Group Executive and Head of Group Technology & Operations at DBS Bank, a leading Asian bank with more than $300 billion of assets and a market capitalization of about $35. “It has given me such a depth of awareness about how devices operate and what they are capable of,” he said.

Banking 8

Banking Technology Learning-by-Doing Download 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Technology has tremendous potential to be the engine of increasing human, organizational, and economic prosperity. Fulfilling technology’s potential will require leaders to recreate the way their institutions operate in a world of digital ubiquity. And digital innovations will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

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Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 12

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. It’s our job to get the plane down safely, whether riddled by bullets or with two dead engines snuffed out by birds over the Hudson River. Duke and James D. But then we sobered up.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What is missing is growth capital for the small companies that should be the economic engines of their communities.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. Volkswagen’s software that allowed diesel engines in its vehicles to cheat on emissions tests is another case of a top-down fixed strategy that suffered in implementation.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

One of the wonderful things about being a coach is that I meet hundreds of executives who freely share their business and leadership challenges with me. Worse, organizations rarely show people how to operate in a new structure, which can also undermine effectiveness.

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Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

When Pierre Beaudoin took over the aerospace division at Bombardier with a mandate for change, he and his team understood that boosting factory performance would require building lean capabilities, something the company sorely lacked despite its engineering experience.

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Long-term Short-term Engineering Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.” “It really helped to inject purpose and happiness into my career and those of my colleagues in engineering.” ” A few years ago Joel experienced a degree of professional malaise.

Career 14

Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well. 2) What is culture worth? How does culture drive performance?

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale.

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Blog Ryan B2C Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. These companies are dedicated to mutual technological leadership with their customers. By contrast, the 110 largest German companies had margins of just 6.3%.

Industry 8

Industry Long-term Short-term Class 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. link] Social Influence Measurement – Tools, Resources & Commentary | Digital Marketing Blog // Digital Operative [.] What more proof does one need?

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 368

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along. External-Marketplace.

Review 57

Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. When they are compelled to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering…two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 17 percent).

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60