Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2020

Until recently, very few CEOs, IT, or marketing professionals would have put ‘data optimization’ high on the list of agenda items that keep them up at night. The most critical aspect of better data management is the reduction of inefficiencies in operations that cost businesses as much as 25% of their revenue. Direct Sources.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Guest post from Christine Comaford: Tania is a brilliant CEO of a super successful accounting firm. Carlos, her VP of operations, is a bright and solid asset to the firm. The less developed, the more likely they will operate in the Critter State. The Five Organismic Rights are these: 1. The right to exist 2.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2012

By comparison, in companies with average performance, only 33 percent are engaged, 49 percent are not engaged, and disturbingly high 18 percentage of employees are actively disengaged -- coasting along and picking up their pay checks, gaming the system, and sucking the energy out everyone around them. In its workplace studies, Gallup, Inc.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In fact your talk matters little, in comparison to your walk. The most effective leaders have the best “talk”; a great vision, values, wonderful approaches and plans, and people see talk as more than just words – they see the walk. The reality is, they watch and pay much more attention to your feet, than your lips.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

One of the most important and challenging decisions faced by corporate directors is whether to promote a new CEO from within or to hire new talent when a CEO leaves the company. So which CEOs are “better”? Lee Powers/Getty Images. Both have advantages. Prior studies have two common methodological limitations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

CEOs earned 335 times the pay of the average worker. they earn 129 times more ; the High Pay Centre marked “Fat Cat Wednesday” (January 4, 2017) as the day by when a CEO has already earned more than an average worker earns in the entire year. CEOs Get Paid Too Much. A CEO’s actions are scalable.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

CEO succession is an inherently bumpy process. It’s hard for anyone who thrives in the all-consuming job of a CEO to hand over the reins. They adopt processes that have them anticipating the change far in advance, treat the retiring CEO with full respect, and make him or her feel comfortable throughout.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Laura Schroeder at Working Girl clears the ground for a comparison between our workplaces and a popular TV show in The Gleeful Workplace. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. That’s it for this month.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

How are the CEOs of Airbnb and Uber, Brian Chesky and Travis Kalanick, different from the founders of earlier tech companies? Because of these challenges, these companies required a different kind of CEO — extroverted, a good storyteller, a politician, someone who could charismatically rally customers to their cause.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. public corporations must file with the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The public is up in arms about some of the big bonuses being paid to the CEOs of big bailed-out banks. Al Dunlap , the former Sunbeam CEO, and once handsomely rewarded corporate icon, was fond of reminding his investors that "the best bargain is an expensive CEO." It all used to be very different.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About the Authors Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership , is a Senior Operating Executive at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; one of the largest and most successful private-equity firms in the United States. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. By comparison, can you imagine a co-worker who received nothing (data, reports, parts, etc.) “The efforts of the various divisions in a company, each given a job, are not additive.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc., Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2017

We also discovered a staggering lack of confidence in leadership: 71% of survey respondents said government officials are not at all or somewhat credible, and 63% said the same about CEOs. The credibility of CEOs fell by 12 points this year, to 37% globally. Related Video. Lack of Information Stokes Globalization Anxiety.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Just as you would in your office, when you’re online make sure to hold yourself accountable. Own your mistakes and always tell the truth – no exceptions.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

He appears to have removed himself from the day to day management of football operations. Even More Leadership Lessons from the Washington Redskins : Comments I think that the leadership lessons from the Redskins may pale in comparison to those of the Chicago Bears. He fired his lackey and hired a professional general manager.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc., Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Earlier this year, I received some lessons on what wins in frontier markets from former Coca Cola CEO Neville Isdell. CEO says he or she''s building something for twenty-five years from now, an investor is likely to say ''Oh, come on. In 2008 he was named by Beverage Industr y magazine as the sector''s CEO of the year.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

division was known for underperforming against revenue plans in comparison to its central and western division counterparts. One CEO I briefly worked with loved to foster competition among his team. The newly appointed CEO, learning of the fragmentation between the two departments called both leaders into his office.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. When you are gone, will analytics be first in the hearts and minds of your CEO, your CMO and your board of directors?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. In comparison, the U.S., Translators were employed for cross-border communications. But in 2010, Rakuten mandated an English-only policy for its workforce of over 10,000 employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

For all these reasons, Prime has been described by CEO Jeff Bezos as one of the company’s three strategic pillars. In comparison, Walmart.com sells “only” 15 million items — and just 2 million of them are available for the free two-day shipping. Walmart has held a low-price leadership position from its start.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. Patent & Trademark Office and the European Patent Office provides a more realistic comparison. An analysis of data on patents granted by the U.S. In 2009, the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

My clients hire me not solely on the basis of what I can personally do for them in a vacuum, but rather what the collective influence of my network and resources can accomplish for them when I operate outside of my own personal bubble. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the great comparison between humility and narcissism.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Any advantages you have now will pale in comparison with a great set of algorithms that differentiates the customer experience. CEOs are on the hunt to understand who has done what, and who has succeeded. CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

In comparison to other methods (such as Six Sigma or activity-based costing), ZBB typically does not address operational excellence in core processes (marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing) or fundamental cost drivers such as portfolio complexity, organizational complexity, customer complaints, and quality issues.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” It is one of the top selling business books of all time and a favourite among CEOs. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Jim Collins.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Rules tightly circumscribe discretion. Bureaucracy, on the other hand, is universal.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Rules tightly circumscribe discretion. Bureaucracy, on the other hand, is universal.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

The drawback of eliminating list prices (or any type of comparison reference price) is consumers won’t have a “crutch” to help evaluate the deal-worthiness of Amazon’s prices. With its operational excellence and buying power, it can trounce the competition in price.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. And that the two companies’ CEOs, Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei, would take seats on each other’s boards.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

Indeed, a 2006 campaign by the company's PR firm only made matters worse until Lee Scott, the previous CEO, temporarily turned things around. Extending the above strategy to also reduce operational threats and improve efficiency across the board is one of them. Keep the low-cost strategy but seek alternative ways for supporting it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Last week's Financial Times ranking of the world's top women in business included five Indian CEOs; another study (PDF) finds that 11% of the CEOs of the largest Indian companies are women. Also noteworthy: More than 50% of female college grads also hold a post-graduate degree, in comparison to 40% of men. "If

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

While Facebook is still working diligently on mobile applications, CEO Mark Zuckerberg went so far as to hint that the acquisition places the company on the cutting edge for the next pervasive platform: virtual reality. While Virtual Reality may one day be pervasive, the disruption of VR is nothing like disruption of mobility.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

The CEO — the public face of the company — is bombarded with requests. That''s why Elizabeth started out one notch lower, with the office of the Chief Operating Officer, "because that secretary knows everybody," she says. Her goal wasn''t actually to score an interview with the COO, which was probably unlikely.

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