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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Darrin Williams , CEO of Southern Bancorp, may have been a little surprised when a world-class business school professor came knocking at his door. After they met, she became so interested that she asked Darrin for permission to write a full-blown Harvard case study on Southern Bancorp. .

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Elon Musk: A Case Study of The World’s Richest, Influential, And Most Controversial Man

CEO Insider

To Musk, entrepreneurship is more of a personality guided by high intellectual character and proper management skills. The success story of Elon Musk does not depict more of an employee in him, but a creator, manager, and developer of economy-based giant investments. His […].

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Executive Evolution: How Performance Coaching Transforms Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Another significant challenge for executives is managing organizational complexity. One such case study involves a CEO of a multinational corporation who was facing challenges in leading a diverse global team and navigating the complex dynamics of a rapidly changing business landscape.

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70 Women Leaders Case Studies

Eric Jacobson

Prepare to be inspired, impressed and motivated by personal, real-life stories and case studies from 70 women leaders in the book, Wisdom Warriors , authored by Carol Seymour. She also founded in 2013 Signature Leaders -- a development initiative and peer network to fast-track women into senior management.

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The Double-Edged Sword of Success: Navigating Scrutiny and Public Opinion as a High-Performer.

Rich Gee Group

When a junior employee makes a mistake, it's a learning opportunity; when a CEO or a prominent executive errs, it's front-page news. There's no straightforward way to escape this scrutiny, but strategic methods exist to manage and mitigate its impact. She worked her way up to become the CEO of a mid-sized tech company.

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Why Uncontrollable Factors are Norm to Great CEOs

In the CEO Afterlife

But in the context of taking charge and leading human beings during major or minor crises, every chief executive is blessed with the luxuries of time, subordinate counsel, years of related experience, and knowhow imparted by pundits in thousands of books, journals and case studies. This is a case of “jump” before you are “pushed.”.

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Always Day One

Leading Blog

He presents case studies of these five tech giants in Always Day One. The case studies also provide ample examples of pitfalls we should avoid too. That is why ‘visionary’ is still the ultimate compliment for the CEO today. In 2014 when Satya Nadella became CEO, he sought to change all that.