Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

You need them to operate as a great team, not functionaries. Operational boards are more valuable than governance boards. On many boards the CEO is also the Chairperson. But you are missing an opportunity to add strength to your leadership. It’s a tough audience. What do you do? First understand what makes a good board.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.”.

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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. This helps direct reports understand the agendas of the peer team members and allows them to develop their skills in building collaboration and reaching consensus.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

But culture can’t be static, and CEOs and other executives can’t be static either. Adjusting in order to thrive, however, requires competent leadership and commitment to creating the best possible corporate culture. John Mattone is an authority on leadership, talent, and culture. About the Author.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Navy One example of a leader who intentionally developed a Connection Culture using all three bridges is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. Following are a few of the ways Admiral Clark and his leadership team built bridges so that everyone felt connected and a part of the Navy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

As a CEO visiting one of our classes put it, "If you have time, you can be infinitely collaborative, but if you have to fix things in a significant way and you're in a hurry, you've got to be more directive.". Two levers available to any manager stand out in our research on top-performing CEOs: 1. Take Indian IT giant Wipro.

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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. Comprising that mindset are the following six leadership characteristics. Leaders who are driving simplification must lay aside the need to seek consensus. If not, why?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

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. Because consensus and familiar metrics are death to breakthrough.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. 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.”

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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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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. Leadership. W E ALL GET STUCK IN RUTS.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013. I wanted that experience.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It is indicative of a new generation of leadership emerging at the top of many of the world's largest organizations. It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. And not just me, our whole leadership team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

There was a consensus that CSR focuses more on boosting employee morale than addressing the way a company engages with society’s concerns. In CSR’s place, I propose a new model of engagement, which I call connected leadership. Define and communicate your company’s contribution to society. Apply world-class management.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. “We were Abelson-Frankel, yet operated as two separate agencies.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Common pitfalls are a lack of cultural understanding between the integrating parties, poor integration leadership, and a focus on the wrong activity set or the wrong targets. The acquiring company wished to retain its operating approach and replicate it within the newly acquired business. Step 4: Get the Plumbing and Wiring Right.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

But in the business world, their precise equivalents are standard operating procedure. CEOs routinely go to the microphones to apologize or make excuses for missing the analysts' consensus earnings estimates — even if their real results are substantially up.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

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. Product Recall, Tylenol. Several deaths occurred as a result of tampered Tylenol capsules. About the Author.

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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?” One-Room Houses.

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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. That’s where a leadership philosophy comes in.

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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? Just how scarce are matrix-related leadership skills ? Create enterprise-level training programs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. It may be possible to create alignment among the leadership team, but that consensus will break down once the individual members return to their working groups. These are all synchronized systems. That’s what appears to have happened at Blockbuster.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. It may be possible to create alignment among the leadership team, but that consensus will break down once the individual members return to their working groups. These are all synchronized systems. That’s what appears to have happened at Blockbuster.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Leadership : There are a number of ways to get in trouble here…poor leadership, no leadership, or fractionalized leadership can all be quite problematic. Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. Thanks for sharing Tom.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

CEO activism, the growing trend of top executives speaking out on sensitive social and political issues, has been labeled the “ new normal.” There are conflicting views of how CEOs should proceed. fotog/Getty Images. ” But behind the scenes, executives do not feel in control.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who as recently as last month has reported not believing that human activity or carbon dioxide are primary contributors to climate change, contradicting 150 years of basic physics and decades of scientific consensus. Disclosure: I’ve done paid speaking for executives at Walmart and Apple.).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

For example, many American CEOs spent considerable energy in the weeks building up to Trump’s Paris announcement lobbying the President not to withdraw. But there is now a growing trend of some CEOs actively lobbying for more ambitious government action and regulation on a whole range of social and environmental issues.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

political leadership have a chilling effect on corporate action around environmental and social issues? When Kellogg’s CEO, John Bryant, spoke at the Paris meeting, in December 2015, he told the assembled executives and diplomats that addressing climate change was “mission critical” for the company.

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