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.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. This is a tremendous competitive advantage. Here is how they position it: “The superior scale of our refineries provides a competitive advantage.” Human Resources.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 20, 2012

During my tenure as a CEO, my Board of Directors never challenged me with questions pertaining to the corporate culture. And when they are long gone, the culture is left to the CEO to nurture. With the exception of mega-company “clout” in the marketplace, sustainable competitive advantage cannot survive in toxic cultures.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Determining exactly how to turn these challenges into opportunities keeps many CEOs awake at night. Best-practice organizations view the leadership development process as an increasing source of competitive advantage. Focus on human resources development and business experience. Leadership'

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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. The editing should have been tighter to eliminate redundant words, awkward sentences, and waffling phrases.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. A preferred provider has a significant competitive advantage over all other providers, because it is the “go-to” provider in the marketplace. The CEO is responsible for tone and culture.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A good CEO costs no more than a bad one – sometimes far less when you consider costly mistakes and lucrative severance packages. Monsanto , for example, enjoys the competitive advantage that emanates from a culture of clout. But to smaller companies, qualitative strategies are the catalyst to sustainable competitive advantage.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 5, 2012

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. Recessions thrash well thought out strategic intent and pressure CEOs into a mish mash of tactical “quick fix” solutions.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 28, 2012

During my tenure as a CEO, my Board of Directors never challenged me with questions pertaining to the corporate culture. And when they are long gone, the culture is left to the CEO to nurture. With the exception of mega-company “clout” in the marketplace, sustainable competitive advantage cannot survive in toxic cultures.

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Competitive Advantage Long-term CEO Ethics 131

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 5, 2013

At the risk of adding to my reputation as yesterday’s man, I’m fully supporting Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s ban on working from home. The competitive advantage lies in how Yahoo’s employees work together to fulfill Marissa Mayer’s strategic vision. Frankly, there aren’t many of us out there applauding this controversial big play.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

However, now that I look back from the CEO afterlife, I realize that this view need not be pervasive. Proponents believe that dominant market share creates competitive advantage because ofmarketplace leverage and economies of scale. But hold on for a moment. This is the mentality of the old economy.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 4, 2012

An organization’s best strategists are in the C-Suite, and the CEO is usually the catalyst. Here are the key differences between the species: Strategists are obsessed with bolstering their company’s competitive advantage. Strategic Planners are the architects of these documents.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 12, 2019

” Phrases like “head count,” “human capital,” and “my people,” dehumanize and objectify. We could push this further and make the same argument for “human resources.” Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

Carey Pellock: Since I joined Neustar in 2012, the company has undergone significant changes – most notably a transition from public to private company status and the arrival of a new CEO. Our values informed our guiding principles, developed by our CEO and implemented by our Executive Committee, for operating through COVID-19.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

I cannot even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a CEO tell me that certain immutable business principles just don’t apply to his/her business because, “this business is different.&# Moving on…Believe it or not, CEO is not always synonymous with all knowing business guru.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 17, 2012

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. Recessions thrash well thought out strategic intent and pressure CEOs into a mish mash of tactical “quick fix” solutions.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

In the CEO Afterlife. In The CEO Afterlife became the conduit to carry these musings to leaders and managers caught in the tangled knots of complexity, uncertainty, and information overload. Nor do they understand how to leverage focus and specialization for competitive advantage. Complexity Cripples.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. The biggest pivot happened during a trip to Silicon Valley when I was CEO of EY Canada.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

The reward is longer-term competitive advantages. Human capital is the source from which competitive advantage flows or falls. The power of the do less better strategy is its capacity to keep thinks a simple and uncluttered from production and distribution all the way to sales, marketing, and service.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Rather, it is using judgment at the right time and in the right place to seize the competitive edge. Competitive advantage, not information, is power. When I was a CMO and CEO, I operated with an entrepreneurial mindset that required taking decisions as early as possible. Entrepreneurial Mindset Power.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Jason Richmond is President & CEO of Ideal Outcomes, Inc. There is no doubt that strong culture translates into a powerful competitive advantage. In fact, there is a huge risk in undervaluing the advantage the right culture plays. In other words, culture is the fuel that drives and sustains positive engagement.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The “intellectual capital” brought in by high-knowledge employees will be a major, if not the primary, competitive advantage. As the perceived value of key knowledge workers increases, the competition to hire these workers will intensify. Retaining High-Impact Performers . Life is good. 1-858-759-0950.

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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. Both have advantages. So which CEOs are “better”? Lee Powers/Getty Images. Prior studies have two common methodological limitations.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2015

Patti Phillips PhD is president and CEO of ROI Institute, Inc. With expertise based on more than 27 years of corporate experience, Phillips has served as training and development manager at two Fortune 500 firms, as senior human resources officer, as a bank president, and as management professor at a major university.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There’s no single CEO-like entity and no hierarchy for single accountability. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. Their new book is Revolutionizing Business Operations: How to Build Dynamic Processes for Enduring Competitive Advantage (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023).

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 26, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. The process that started in the 1950’s evolved through various strategic analyses including SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats), Michael Porter’s competitive strategy model, core competencies, strategic intent and business transformation. “If Every CEO wants buy-in. Human Resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. They worked together to identify the technologies that could improve the company''s competitive advantage versus technologies that were needed to support the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. But without clear lines of authority and accountability, dual empowerment guarantees perpetual conflict between human and artificial intelligence. Who wants clever code bossing them around?

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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. Instead of cutting human resource jobs (which seems counterproductive for a company that employs 2.3 ” Walmart can’t compete with this value proposition, at least not yet.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

CEOs who invest their time advancing their company’s business model or seeking a new one are adding value to their organizations. Advancing the model’ is just another way of saying improving or fortifying the company’s competitive advantage. Differentiation holds the key to competitive success. The result was far more.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

The reality seems less impressive, as a global IBM survey of more than 1,700 CEOs found that 71% identified human capital as a key source of competitive advantage, yet a global study by Tata Consultancy Services showed that only 5% of big-data investments were in human resources. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). Generating Top-Line Growth. Additional challenges come from "localization" requirements in many countries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

The answer should not be “the CEO” or “the Chairman” or the equivalent. Achieving sustainable competitive advantage through superior strategic alignment does not happen by accident – it happens by design, or not at all, and it requires a special breed of leadership, which I call enterprise leadership.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 9, 2021

In their new book, TALENT MAKERS , Greenhouse co-founders Daniel Chait and Jon Stross present their step-by-step guide for implementing a structured hiring process that attracts great talent and turns hiring into a competitive advantage. I spoke with them about the challenges around hiring, and how they can be surmounted. Talent won.”

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

CEOs talk focus all the time and nod to its importance, but few take the necessary measures to cut through complexity and clear a path to clarity and coherence. Thanks to Coke’s global reach, brand power, bottling network, and single-minded focus, I’m betting on Coca-Cola sustaining this competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

And that same transparency has radically shortened the shelf life of any new competitive advantage. “We’ll Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO. She knew that to have a role in steering strategy, she had to earn the trust of her CEO and board. “To

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