Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Now, only a few months until the election, the question is what has changed if anything?

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CEO Politics Consensus System 227

Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 28, 2014

The CEO naively believed that his employees would always rise to the occasion and see the value of their learning through mistakes they made. Are there areas where I can help other people grow and develop, and give myself more time to focus on strategy and long-term planning?” In one example, a CEO was frequently traveling.

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Delegation Report Consensus Learning-by-Doing 137

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The CEO naively believed that his employees would always rise to the occasion and see the value of their learning through mistakes they made. Are there areas where I can help other people grow and develop, and give myself more time to focus on strategy and long-term planning?” In one example, a CEO was frequently traveling.

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Delegation Morale Report Learning-by-Doing 152

leaderCommunicator

JUNE 3, 2014

Flip charts and sticky notes flow, ideas get jotted down, and ultimately you arrive at a consensus -- the path forward. The cloud-based tool was developed by Codigital , a U.K.-based operations out of Denver. While such planning sessions can be great exercises for employee teams, they have clear limitations.

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Brainstorming Conference Consensus eBook 126

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders build the Vision bridge by developing and communicating a mission, set of values, and reputation that connect with employees. Leaders build the Voice bridge by developing processes and practices that keep employees “in the loop” and give them regular opportunities to express their views. Connecting the U.S.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions.

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Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Consider the story of the consultant brought in by the CEO to help solve a specific problem: the company is too centralized in its decision making. Two years pass, the company is still struggling, and a new CEO brings in a new consultant. Two years pass, the company is still struggling, and a new CEO brings in a new consultant.

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Skills Decentralization Agility Resistance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested. Global business'

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GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

But collaboration is not consensus. Former Ogilvy CEO Charlotte Beers was famous for saying, “Collaboration is highly overrated when you don’t have the right thing to do.” Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus.

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Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 13

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

I also believe that when simplification is an operating principle, it can guide leaders both in big, risky decisions and in daily priorities. Characteristic #1: Courage When Dave Lewis became CEO at European grocery store giant Tesco in 2014, the company was struggling. These were compiled, reviewed by marketing, and acted upon.

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Short-term Efficiency Brand System 260

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit.

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360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 20

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

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Career Company IPO Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Jobs announced yesterday that he would step down as CEO, effecting a smooth transition to known successor Tim Cook. Jobs is surely not just any retiring CEO. Like many entrepreneurial founders, he did it by force of personality and personal vision, without much concern for consensus or committees. History shows it isn't easy.

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Licensing Entrepreneur Consensus CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

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CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Katzenberg recently hired Meg Whitman, the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes were small — the famed “pivot.” Seize the Cash.

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IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The ability to meet challenges with a willingness to depart from standard operating procedures; to confront anxiety, tolerate criticism, take intelligent risks, and refute conventional wisdom—especially one’s own views—in order to achieve breakthroughs” is what Jonah Sachs calls unsafe thinking. W E ALL GET STUCK IN RUTS. Thinking ruts.

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How To Creativity Motivation Learning-by-Doing 165

Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Fred Smith, the Founder and CEO of FedEx, once described to us his understanding of The Main Thing—which he refers to as the "theory of the business." Every successful business has, at its heart, a theory of the business—an underlying set of supporting objectives and a corporate philosophy that gives people a foundation on which to operate.

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Organization Mission Statement How To COO 284

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. Of course, when the requirements of leadership change, so must the focus of leadership development. So in one sense, Polman is only being a good businessman. engage in effective dialogue (75%).

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. It sets in when people collaborate on the wrong things or when collaboration efforts get bogged down in endless discussions and consensus decision-making in which no one is clearly accountable.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. “We were Abelson-Frankel, yet operated as two separate agencies.” Then, after making the decision, I explained it fully to all stakeholders to reduce the stress of change among those affected.

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Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

for the quarter, just barely clearing the consensus estimates of $0.40. Later, a different boss recognized and encouraged my talent for reaching out to people, and his praise enabled me to further develop that skill. And to another: "Every day, I notice how meticulously you attend to operations. The problem? They reported $0.42

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Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

To help maximize the value and minimize the misery of reorgs, we have developed a five-step process for running them. Step 1: Develop a Profit and Loss Statement. In developing organizational solutions, we believe that explicitly choosing from a number of options is the best approach. Step 4: Get the Plumbing and Wiring Right.

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Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No. Once investors stopped giving it free money, the company quickly cut back on its investments and its losses. In Morten T.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Andy O''Connell Justin Bieber's Involved, of Course The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History Businessweek For years, every CEO had a BlackBerry. He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I You''d better believe that Bangladesh is involved.

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CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

PON has annually granted this award to a range of remarkable men and women such as former Secretary of State James Baker , Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein , and U.S. Develop the facts of the case jointly with your counterparts. This year, PON honored Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore as its 2014 “Great Negotiator.”

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Advice Hammer Seminar Consensus 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Business development. The company’s swift recall of product from the shelves and the timely response of the company CEO were part of the crisis plan that was in place well ahead of the tragedy. This industrial development program carried the theme, “You Can Believe/Puede Creer.” Running the business.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible.

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The decisions facing business families can be gut wrenching – and the implications of these decisions can be huge both for the future of the family and also of the business: “Who should the next CEO be – my daughter or my son?” ” “Should we buy our cousin out of the business?”

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CEO Consensus Execution System 8

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Whether you’re the CEO of an internationally recognized conglomerate or the small business owner working to build a team fit for success, knowing who you are and what kind of influence you want to have on the people around you is the first step to becoming an effective leader. What Is a Leadership Philosophy?

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Development Leadership Consensus Leadership Styles 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Imagine you’re the CEO of a casual dining chain. Smart businesspeople are well aware that a deceptive firm will quickly develop a bad reputation and lose repeat and future business. Doing so entails operating more efficiently or innovating to create products that consumers value more. Paul Garbett for HBR.

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Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? Our research shows that escalating issues to the CEO often backfires and can doom matrix projects.

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Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

In a global economy characterized by unprecedented competitiveness and constant change, nearly every CEO hungers for ways to drive more innovation. Unfortunately, most CEOs don't think of themselves as creative, and they share with the rest of us a deeply ingrained belief that creativity is mostly inborn and magical.

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Company Meyer Energy Creativity 21

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Working across organizational boundaries was a new way of thinking 25 years ago —one that was largely championed by Jack Welch, then CEO of GE. The main goal was that these cross-functional teams had to reach consensus on a solution in two days—and devise a plan for executing it. This was delaying product production.

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Welch Supply Chain Consensus Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%. And they were shocking: Just 1% of Egan's SKUs accounted for 100% of its operating profits. Steve kept glancing at Tommy during the tour.

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Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. If your marketing doesn’t uphold your brand promise or if it’s not advancing core business initiatives, then you have an alignment issue.

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Blog Marketing Succession Brand 303

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. According to Noah Kagan, the CEO of SUMO , Sujan is half-mad scientist and half content master.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105