Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

Would you describe your company’s CEO as Wonder Woman, or your executive vice president as Batman? Julie Winkle-Giulioni provided Diagnosis: Career Path(ology). Eileen shares: “ When a job is patterned, the same-old-same-old stuff, and a traditional career ladder is offered, great talent will not accept nor will they stay.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 10, 2010

I had to FedEx a letter to a prominent executive the other day. Is Your Career A Rollercoaster Or Are You Driving It? Are you driving your career? What’s Killing Your Career? Can Change Your Career. Next post: Developing The CEO Within You. I use this book everyday. How You Sabotage Your Success. Guaranteed.

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Waterman Licensing Covey Objective 286

Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2013

When newly recruited, the following types of executives experienced the highest failure rates within the first 18 months: senior-level executives (39%), sales executives (30%), marketing executives (25%), and operations executives (23%). Also, two out of every five new CEOs fail in the first 18 months (HBR, January 2005).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The CEO is made stronger with a good C-suite team. Some performers made careers as supporting players. Nobody turns letters like Vanna White, making her essential to the legacy of “Wheel of Fortune.”. A host of people make the CEO look good. Learn to pace and be in the chosen career for the long-run.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

Ironically, even though Pinterest markets itself to women as a source of lifestyle inspiration, the company leadership team is male-dominated, and gender-biased attitudes are prevalent,” the lawsuit says. She said she was fired by CEO Ben Silbermann when she protested against her treatment.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Business Publications Small Business Review | Newsletter for Small Business Owners Small Business Review’s e-letter is published bi-weekly and provides small businesses with information on the necessary evils of running their businesses. ** N2′s Top Pick for being of real value to small businesses.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

A multi-million dollar CEO was forced to resign; a flight attendant chose not to wait for the jetway to depart and an office worker named “Jenny” shared her white board based resignation letter with millions when it went viral online.  One is that, until this week, Slater had an exemplary career with Jet Blue.

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Stage-Gate Letter Blog Executive Coaching 175

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Complicating matters further for CEOs attempting to determine what to do about bonuses is all the recent media attention and public outrage in regard to what is perceived by many to be excessive, frivolous compensation. While many tend to favor this structure, it is far from perfect as well.

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The Idolbuster

MAY 11, 2012

On May 3, 2012, a dissident investor accused Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson of falsifying his resume on the company web site and in financial disclosures by claiming a computer science degree that he didn’t earn. The CEO sets the moral tone of a company, and you cannot have someone lying about their resume at the head. Thompson has to go.

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CEO Letter PR Ethics 48

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Debbie Laskey Mike, while I agree that a great presentation could showcase the evolution of leadership over time based on circumstances and types of companies, what about creating a "how to" playbook for how new leaders (CEOs) can create a leadership style? What were yours? His officers stared at him, wondering.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 21, 2010

Main | Video Book Club: The Discipline of Market Leaders » June 21, 2010 What Am I Supposed To Be Learning From This? In addition to the good times and the successes, she talked about tough times she had been through in her career and bad bosses she had worked for. Sneaky Peers? You just need to stay in learning mode.

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Executive Coaching Blog Letter Learning-by-Doing 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Strive Masiyiwa was interviewing him to be CEO of the Nigeria telecoms venture lead by Econet Group, which Strive founded and chairs. ’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. Of course, it helps you understand those foreign markets.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Send that letter TODAY. Frequently So many people get themselves all ready to go out and conquer the marketplace, but are afraid of taking the next step by actually doing it. Get out there and touch your prospects. Make that phone call RIGHT NOW. Ask Lots of Questions & Listen Make this meeting about THEM, not you. Unported License.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Over the past four years, Mad Men , with its lead character, advertising exec Don Draper, has become more and more popular as evidenced by ratings, buzz and marketing tie-ins. Both Draper and Gekko are consumed with their careers. Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

The result of that is an engrossing article that includes a number of intemperate remarks from the General and his aides which have endangered McChrystal’s career. Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Several times in the article, aides of McChrystal are quoted referring to him as The Boss.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Nancy is a fabulous career coach who focuses on moms who want to get back into their careers. My wife worked with her in 1999 and back in January 2000, Nancy agreed to talk with totally stuck me even though I wasn't in her target market. Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

” He put up posters that read: “Send they a letter.” The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive. The late Bill McCowan, MCI’s former Chairman and CEO, did “his best to ban. They have to solve problems sensibly from the earliest days of their careers.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

  When I met her, she walked into the room on crutches and stood and talked with me for 20 minutes about her career with the Army and her plans for the future. Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Error type: Your comment has been saved. Please try again.

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Blog Executive Coaching Open-book Hotels 146

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. And he was considered an expert!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

On the other, startups with women as CEOs – not simply VPs or boardmembers – are more likely to do poorly. How an Honest Letter Saved a Company (Fortune). Or you could write a letter. Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman did both last December when his UP bracelet, designed to track a user’s health, malfunctioned.

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Marketing Rate of Return Disruptive Innovation Letter 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy. Do what you say you will, period.

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. DAVID: Yeah.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

He put up posters that read: "Send they a letter." The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive. The late Bill McCowan, MCI''s former Chairman and CEO, did "his best to ban. They have to solve problems sensibly from the earliest days of their careers. It was no longer an acceptable excuse.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 55

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received. Silverman's basic philosophy on cover letters? Four Ways Women Stunt Their Careers Unintentionally. Which of your activities are actually important to your career, and which merely provide the illusion of progress? What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

We are programmed through our evolutionary biology to be both consumers and creators of story,” says Jonah Sachs, CEO of Free Range Studios and author of Winning the Story Wars. “It Think of a moment in which your own failures led to success in your career, or a lesson that a parent or mentor imparted,” says Sachs.

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Storytelling How To Audience Letter 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Month by month, the job market keeps easing upward. But while they have been hunkered down waiting for the recession to pass, the job market has been changing. You have more skills and experience since the last time you were on the job market. They are looking for a way into a career and will say yes to most offers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I do have a 15-year-old who could not in a million years be bothered to send Apple’s Tim Cook a letter urging him to “meaningfully accelerate and increase the magnitude of share repurchases.” He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. Wait a while.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

One of her primary duties during the summer would be helping him with market research by reaching out to other technology firms, including direct competitors, for information on products, services offered, customers, sales, and other data. A quick search showed that he was Zantech’s head of market research for Asia. About this?”

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Case Study Follow-up Ethics CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

When I joined the Harvard Business School faculty, I received cards and letters from friends and family congratulating me on achieving one of the ultimate brass rings of academics. Compared with my colleague, I had accomplished so little over such a long career; my two measly books were more like an embarrassment, given his output.

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Merton Black-Scholes Welch Organizational Behavior 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away. Some commercial programs cater to this market but are usually populated by entrepreneurs on the way up.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. One guy says, “You’re CEO. You do CEO/chairman stuff.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Mitch Barns, the new Nielsen CEO, recently recounted a story of how a young leader who was asked two pointed questions at a Q&A session. “Do The first view is one that many hold–and one that retirement services marketers love to espouse. Do you think the work we do has any redeeming social value? Motivation'

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Diversity Retail Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

The four weeks since hackers had attacked his company had been the most stressful of Jake Santini’s career. At Target, the CIO and then the CEO resigned. SimplePay is—was—the market leader in the mobile-pay space because of its reputation for being reliable and secure. Jake typed the letter out on his phone.

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Case Study Crisis IPO CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Since taking over as CEO, sales had increased fifteen-fold. His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. ” He would later call this the most important insight of his career.

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Management Long-term System Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Last month three of Under Armour’s celebrity endorsers — Stephen Curry, Misty Copeland, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — publicly criticized the company’s CEO, Kevin Plank, for making a favorable statement about President Trump. This was an unusual PR challenge.

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