Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Today brings the new book by Ron Shaich , founder, and former CEO of Panera Bread. As you read the book, you’ll discover Shaich’s rules for gaining and maintaining competitive advantage : Recognize that you can’t please all people all the time. Accept that maintaining competitive advantage is really difficult.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Eberhardt: Honest, purposeful, and respectful communication is one of the most effective leadership skills, yet CEOs who promote a culture of candor are still uncommon in business today. At best, this approach can be confusing, leaving your employee focused only on the positives and missing the areas to be developed altogether.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

Years ago, we engaged with a CEO in the mattress industry who wanted to know how he could create real brand distinction and drive more retail traffic in such a highly commoditized category. The mattress CEO was relentless about doing right by customers, and this made him very particular about who he hired and how they were trained.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

You would think that given the rock-solid evidence that organizations with great leadership consistently outperform those that don’t that EVERY organization would be heavily invested in the development of its current and future leaders. I’ll tell you, cnce a CEO gets it , they are ALL OVER it, and everything else is relatively easy.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey write in Talent Wins : Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of talent, yet the talent practices in their organizations use are vestiges of another era. This is a group that consists of the CEO, the CFO, and the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer).

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 12, 2014

We were meeting with the CEO of a successful chemical company. Known for good service, the company’s leadership recognized that remarkable service was vital to their competitive advantage. Change Management Leadership Development Accountability Character-based Leadership Culture Change Teamwork'

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Think like a marketer to drive learning and development – Osborne argues that a long period of poor training initiatives has tarnished the brand of learning and development within the workforce.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 12, 2021

Costco promotes from within and invests in apprentice-like training to develop employees and give them opportunities for advancement. ” These include Oprah Winfrey as she led her media companies, Tricia Griffith of Progressive Insurance, Alan Mulally when he was CEO of Ford Motor Company, CNO Admiral Vernon Clark of the U.S.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By possessing a disciplined set of principles and focusing on carefully developing her leadership skills throughout the process, she was able to achieve her goal of becoming #1 in the translation market that was already dominated by established competitors. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

Some business leaders eager to keep a competitive advantage often invest in new technologies without fully understanding how to harness their potential or fully considering how digital technologies will meet the company’s needs. But not every business knows how to convert that data into actionable insights.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2023

In Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work , we wrote: When John Bowlby studied homeless and orphaned children following World War II, he found that children who experienced little or no connection developed emotional and behavioral problems.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2013

Culture and the Chief Executive CEOs are stepping up to role as leaders of their company’s thinking and behavior. How to Overcome the 3 Organizational Barriers to Leadership Development by @greatleadership. Failure: The Competitive Advantage by @LollyDaskal. 5 Signs You Lack Integrity by @cnieuwhof. LeadershipNow 140'

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Purpose is a Competitive Advantage. They develop leaders. Cheryl Bachelder is the former CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., Today, Cheryl serves on boards, mentors CEOs, and invests in philanthropy. Why does work have such a bad reputation? Or is it just my line of work that has a bad reputation?

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 6, 2021

The 2nd edition of our book Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work features a robust collection of practices you can employ that will boost connection among your team. Below are two you can easily fold into virtual meetings. Share one good thing”. from 2014 to 2017.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business. It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy. Leadership is the driving force of strategy.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business. It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy. Leadership is the driving force of strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. Even though her job is bigger now, the CEO still has a duty to establish that same competitive context. Recently, I approached the entrance of familiar children’s store and saw a dead bird on their doorstep. You must define exactly what the enterprise does.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

This new definition revolves around appreciating employees and, done right, can become your greatest competitive advantage. At Boston based General Insulation, CEO Frank Granara not only remembers everyone’s names, but is aware of what’s going on with their families as well. Leaders should be curious about their people.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Bruce Watt of Development Dimensions International presents “ Who Would Really Want to be a Leader? ”

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 24, 2017

I’ve spoken with Jim Sinegal, Costco’s co-founder and CEO from 1983 to 2011, and interacted with Ryan Watkins, a young Costco warehouse manager across the country in Oregon. The level of customer loyalty Costco has developed with its members is the envy of every retailer. Is There a Best Culture? Vision + Value + Voice = Connection).

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

If we can harness the untapped potential buried deep within the hearts of our people, we can turn engagement from a liability into real, sustainable competitive advantage and usher in gains in productivity unseen since the industrial revolution! Leaders should also care deeply about engagement because of the opportunity it presents.

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CO2

MARCH 14, 2013

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced that she was going to put an end to remote working for Yahoo employees in June. By taking away this perk (and perhaps adding long commutes), Mayer is giving up Yahoo’s competitive advantage. The post Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Is Wrong! The Prediction.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The CEO is only one person. He or she can set the strategic direction, sign off on policies and plans, and encourage a professional and productive atmosphere, but significant change is implemented by managers and employees often far removed from the CEO’s corner office.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 5, 2012

This is why they spend so much on research and development. Competitive intangibles are the source from which competitive advantage flows or goes, and human capital is the primary source of every competitive intangible. CEOs come and go. Last year, the world’s top 20 R&D spenders dished out $153 billion.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Yet most take a haphazard or inconsistent approach to leadership development. To bring his ideas to life, Miller uses the story of Blake, a new CEO, and Charles, an old friend and colleague, as they search for best practices from around the world to ensure a continuous supply of their most precious asset: leaders. Interact with Mark!

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2010

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, December 31, 2010 Slow Down, Sell Faster I am really enjoying the snow. For a differentiator to become a competitive advantage it must be connected to a customer problem. I call it CEO Blog - Time Leadership because of my keen interest in time. I am CEO between positions.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

My colleagues and I believe that the primary reason people and organizations are struggling with employee engagement and organizational culture is that they are not intentional about developing cultures that connect people. That adds up to a powerful performance advantage (and a competitive advantage).

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CO2

JUNE 12, 2020

Several years ago, a dear friend of mine, Darrell Mann, CEO of Systematic Innovation , predicted that some catastrophic event would soon plague humanity. He developed Cynefin while at IBM to help decision-makers better understand how to behave based on their assessment of the organization’s environment.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

What is the difference, and what can leaders do to develop a pragmatic strategy in times of uncertainty? The WD-40 Company and The Gorilla Glue Company are also two companies that I profile in the book as a rare example of when your culture can be competitive advantage and provide you a strategic Right to Win.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

As the founder and CEO of Human Workplace, Liz envisions a future where work is fluid, nimble, and built on trust. Two stories about breaking rules: – I worked with a CEO who was hiring a lot of people quickly. But this CEO did, and every candidate in that group who got a job offer accepted it. It’s easy to see why.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 22, 2011

In Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage Keller and Price reinforce the decades of accumulating research showing that roughly 70% of organizational change programs fail. Central to that high failure rate are huge shortfalls in developing the “soft skills&# of leadership and culture.

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CO2

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“Executive coaching is a professional development process where an experienced coach works with executives, managers, and other high-potential individuals to enhance their leadership and management skills. Leadership Skills: A New Paradigm In the realm of executive coaching , leadership development takes center stage.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 16, 2012

Is it the ability to develop a clear and inspiring vision? Is it the ability to recognize sources of sustainable competitive advantage? I don’t want to spend too much time on who’s at fault; I would rather provide you with some thoughts on how to avoid such developments. And then, drive execution accordingly? And I will.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Risk-averse CEOs find comfort in the ‘ doing more of the same’ strategic mode. For companies without clout, competitive advantage can be realized by keeping things simple, by cutting out the complexity cancer that is crippling so many enterprises. Ditto (pardon the pun) the carriers who buy the phones.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 20, 2013

The “steel” in strategy is its capacity to set the stage for an organization to achieve ironclad competitive advantage. Strategy is also a “steal” because good strategies cost no more to develop than bad ones. Sounds simple enough? Not so fast.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Besides responding to our moral responsibilities, proactive ethical leadership drives important business metrics and provides a competitive advantage. Linda Fisher Thornton is CEO of Leading in Context LLC and one of the 2013 Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

"Even if the students choose not to go into selling, they need multifunctional expertise to get into general management," says Doug Raftery, Procter & Gamble's vice president of consumer business development. What is Your Competitive Advantage? Prepared Buyer & Seller. The Unprepared Salesperson.

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