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The Magic of Steve Jobs

Women's Leadership Exchange

With the news that Steve Jobs is stepping down as APPLE CEO, journalists and business bloggers, like me, are commenting in droves about the magic he created at APPLE. But no matter how smart and talented they are, Jobs is the final decisionmaker. My fingers are crossed that he will be back to being CEO again in the near future.

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Survey: 68% of CEOs Admit They Weren’t Prepared for the Job

Harvard Business Review

CEOs are known for their confidence. And yet, that confidence sometimes flags, as we at leadership advisory firm Egon Zehnder learned from a survey of 402 CEOs from 11 countries—executives who together run companies with $2.6 Remarked one: “When you become the final decisionmaker, everything changes.

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The Magic of Steve Jobs Part 2

Women's Leadership Exchange

I wrote a blog at the end of August when Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO. With the news that Steve Jobs is stepping down as APPLE CEO, journalists and business bloggers, like me, are commenting in droves about the magic he created at APPLE. But no matter how smart and talented they are, Jobs is the final decisionmaker.

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-02-11

Tanveer Naseer

Three Times You Have to Speak Up [link] # communication #decisionmaking #. Should CEOs Have Term Limits? The Leadership Development Carnival – A Love Story, this month’s carnival via @ stelzner [link] # leadership #. Authority does not equal leadership [link] # leadership #. by @ mikemyatt [link] # leadership #.

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Take the Bias Out of Strategy Decisions

Harvard Business Review

When Intel was still a company focused on producing memory chips, Stanford professor Robert Burgelman documented that CEO Gordon Moore had emotional trouble abandoning this product, which was losing them money, because it “had made the company” (famously declaring “but, that would be like Ford getting out of cars!?”)

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Gene Sperling and Wall Street's Giant Sucking Sound

Harvard Business Review

It's simply that the firm is accustomed to flinging spectacular amounts of money at its employees — far more than people, other than CEOs and superstars, can expect to make in just about any other line of work. It's not that Goldman was necessarily trying to corrupt Gene Sperling.

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Writing a Rejection Letter (with Samples)

Harvard Business Review

For example, take a look at the article we published on August 6 by Professor Joe Schmo, and the August 16 article by the CEO of Acme Corp. It’s not any easier to get rejected in that fashion, and writing that way undercuts your authority as a decisionmaker. ” Resist that temptation.

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