CO2

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the midst of a global pandemic, I found myself coaching a CEO of a prominent professional services firm. This post will help you learn how leading with questions leads to great leadership that will change your business results. It begins with a fundamental leadership principle: Are you asking enough questions?

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Background: This post is part of a series defining the principles of Servant Leadership via the acronym SERVANT ( Selfless , Empathetic , Resolute, Virtuous, Authentic, Needful and Thorough). For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101. What Resolute is Not.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 9, 2016

An employee walked into my office and asked me to read an email from our CEO he had printed out. He said, “Don’t you think we’re going to have another restructuring, if you read between the lines?” He said, “Just give me a heads-up before you call the CEO, okay?” He asked me what it meant. I looked at him. He knew me well.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

The company may also partner with other autonomous developers to encourage unique capabilities. In August 2018, Apple assigned the leadership of the Titan team to Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, alongside Bob Mansfield. However, the remaining employees have been deployed to other divisions in Apple.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

Just because an opinion is expressed boldly, and even when data can be developed to support the opinion, opinion doesn’t become fact – it’s still an opinion. How many of you reading this post are currently CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies? The problem with this study is that it applies to a very small universe.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

I was absolutely shocked when the CEO of a small organization told me why she couldn’t be more effective. What this CEO needed to do what transition her focus to the core part of the staff who will produce the biggest change in culture and productivity. Unfortunately this type of workforce dynamic happens far more often that it should.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The CEO called for a redoubled effort to resurrect its ailing American arm, a market where customers had been flocking to sports utility vehicles. Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later. Integrate Strategy and Leadership.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Now DC workers are seeing a change in leadership across different agencies which may mean a new boss along with new systems and priorities. Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. Leadership and Change It was a planned change.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve just completed a two-day retreat with a fast-growing leadership team. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. The CEO and second generation owner of this family business was completely frustrated, very unhappy, and hated coming into work every day. ” This team was quite bewildered.

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But it’s essential to differentiate the use of coaching for development from coaching for change. What’s the difference between coaching for change versus coaching for development? The Difference Between Coaching for Development and Coaching for Change. Coaching for Change Has a Different Objective. Strategic intent.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Besides, companies need to develop their own plans. When the recession of 2001 hit, I had to restructure my business. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., I told my friend that the sequence was wrong. Visioning comes first. Then the plan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the past 25 years, CEOs of many major corporations have relied on a flawed set of beliefs to lead their organizations. This environment and the behavior produced by the prevailing set of beliefs to which CEOs subscribe have deepened a widespread public distrust of corporations and capitalism. The Conventional Wisdom.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

It’s understandable that most CEOs try to manage their boards. With directors often attempting to take a more active role in decisions these days, CEOs naturally feel a bit threatened. It’s all a matter of developing trust. Obviously a CEO will want to maintain some discretion here.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. We understand why CEOs may feel defensive about the announcement that an activist has acquired a large stake, particularly if the activist has a scorched-earth track record. Activists are significant shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

When Johnson & Johnson named vice chairman Alex Gorsky as its next CEO, the company concluded a very public succession race that began in 2010 between Gorsky and fellow vice chairman Sheri McCoy. Nardelli was ousted due to poor management — not to mention an autocratic leadership style.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. In an earlier blog post , I observed that CEOs seemed to be rewarded handsomely for downsizing and outsourcing, acquiring or merging, and making the quarter — all justified by the responsibility to maximize shareholder value. billion in revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Although its readership was at historic highs, the CEO was determined to double its subscription base over the next five years. When Lee Iacocca became CEO of Chrysler, here’s what he found: “Chrysler didn’t really function like a company at all. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

The Commonwealth Bank’s shareholders were reacting to the board’s annual Remuneration Report, which contained a recommendation that the CEO be granted a bonus based on what critics saw as “soft” measures. Should CEO performance be assessed only on “hard” measures?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In most cases, charisma is a useful quality for CEOs. Many work hard to develop charismatic skills. The 21st-Century CEO. Leadership is changing — fast. But true charismatic leadership is more than just a set of techniques to excite followers. Insight Center. Sponsored by Cognizant.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. I started in the call center,” a CEO from a financial services business unit told us. “I Develop engaging leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. I started in the call center,” a CEO from a financial services business unit told us. “I Develop engaging leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

We examine the effect of this proxy variable on manager-enacted corporate behaviors, and find that entrenched managers who are insulated from the disciplinary power of the stock market avoid making difficult decisions such as large investments, R&D, and business restructurings.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Yet a recent Bridgespan Group survey of nonprofit CEOs found that nearly half (46%) got little or no onboarding help from their boards. When it comes to managing the CEO, many boards underperform. Consider the organization’s potential growth, restructuring, new programs, and strategies. “I Here are the keys. We’re tired.’”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Leif Johansson , recently retired CEO of the Volvo Group , has a simple and powerful test to track his progress as a leader. For example: How do you deal with difficult business decisions that affect employees and communities — such as restructuring, downsizing, and outsourcing — without leaving your humanity at the door?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

With former CEO A.G. She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people. Appointing a new CEO buys everyone time, and thus quiets the noise for a while. She holds the Ernest L. But note how P&G did it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. To be sure, robots will help people develop these types of skills, but a person – preferably you – will possess them.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Mike Myatt: What’s been most rewarding to you in your work in the leadership field? Rebel Brown : Ah – when the light goes on!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2011

Many love to boast when their revenues soar, or publicize the strategic restructuring of their organizational response committees (whatever that means). to accusations over the company's values and the efficacy of its leadership. Develop a values communications plan. Businesses communicate a lot of things.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Restructurings may be an inevitable part of organizational life but living through them—even when you’re one of the lucky ones still standing—is challenging and stressful. She left Verizon in 2014, and today she is the CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders, a consulting company. How do you stay positive?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

CEOs of average companies, in comparison, scored at about the 68th percentile. Jobs was so impressed that he took his entire programming team on a tour of PARC and returned to Apple hell-bent on developing a personal computer that both incorporated and improved upon the technologies he and his team saw. Lafley became CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Nokia’s CEO was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2007, with the headline “Nokia: A billion customer and counting. The problem, according to people like Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs , was sclerotic decision making that caused the company to miss opportunity after opportunity. Can anyone catch the cell phone king?”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

But as Netflix and online media channels developed, Blockbuster was no longer unique in fulfilling that purpose, and the way it fulfilled it became anachronistic. After a few unsuccessful efforts to restructure, the company leaders decided to kill the brand and close their stores.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

As the CEO of a global oil company who had risen through the ranks, Michel had faced many stressful events on off-shore rigs early in his career, and considered himself to be a tough guy with no tolerance for wimps. Building on the effectiveness of this type of quick assessment, we developed the Stress-APGAR barometer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In the popular mind, there’s a lot of luck and inspired leadership behind successful choices like Southwest’s. The leadership teams at AOL and Time Warner were hardly boneheaded. Nearly half of CEOs reorganize their company in the first two years of their tenure. Many preside over multiple restructurings.

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