Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Apple engineer rebuilds an ancient Greek mechanism — the oldest known computer – known as The Antikythera Mechanism. Watch: Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Antikythera Mechanism , Computer , Legos { 0 comments… add one now } Leave a Comment Previous post: Developing The CEO Within You. Out Of LEGO. Unported License.

Licensing 150

Licensing Ethics Engineering Executive Coaching 150

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2016

A very wise leader, Alan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford and Fortune’s #3 greatest leader in the world 2013, once told me, “The key to your success is having great customers. Almost all of the people I know who call themselves executive coaches are coaches in the area of leadership behavior. You don’t coach integrity violations.

Govindarajan 101

Govindarajan Executive Coaching Porter Pharmaceuticals 101

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! Yes, it's back to school shopping time, and this month's Carnival gives leaders and aspiring leaders a shopping cart full of leadership development supplies. Where are you on your leadership journey? So stock up, and enjoy your reading!

Leadership Development 248

Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 248

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

Great leaders encourage leadership development by openly developing themselves. Listen to what General Mills CEO Steve Sanger once told 90 of his colleagues: “As you all know, last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. by Marshall Goldsmith. I just reviewed my 360-degree feedback.

Development 180

Development 360-Degree Feedback CEO Open-book 180

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. CEO John Stumpf set the tone. 5 Leadership Frequencies. 5 Leadership Frequencies.

Competitive Advantage 97

Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 97

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

August 15th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Yet another Fortune CEO has fallen due to ethics violations. Hewlett-Packard, a company that started out as an example of moral leadership with “The HP Way” in 1939, has proven itself vulnerable to an unscrupulous CEO when Mark Hurd recently resigned. There are 5.5 Certainly.

Ethics 184

Ethics Morale Open-book Blog 184

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 8, 2011

Engineering, design, materials, and service just got better. When I was growing up, cars broke down frequently — there were repair shops all over the place fixing almost every part on a car. Nowadays, it’s rare to have to fix your car (maintenance excluded – I have Hondas/Acuras). Unported License.

Technology 247

Technology Forrester Licensing Software 247

LDRLB

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Mike is America’s Top CEO Coach, recognized by Thinkers50 as a global authority on the topic of leadership, a Forbes leadership columnist, author of Leadership Matters , and CEO at N2growth. In my latest book Hacking Leadership I write on hacking the talent gap. Leadership myatt talent'

Disruptive Innovation 133

Disruptive Innovation Belief Systems Bottom-up Tactics 133

LDRLB

DECEMBER 21, 2012

The CEO of IBM believes in using research to “get ahead of the obvious.” But that’s about the ethics of the people using the tools of strategy. The ethical strategist can deliberately limit certain options because they are unethical. ” At exactly the point his competitors were fearful he moved into new areas.

Strategy 153

Strategy Ethics Transportation Consultative 153

Lead on Purpose

MARCH 8, 2010

CEOs are praised for their vision. Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. Top salespeople are rewarded with high commissions. The rewards for applied skill and hard work come quickly after the work is complete. Within two years I was speaking and writing fluently.

Taylorism 145

Taylorism Taylor Ethics Godin 145

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 17, 2011

Listen to what General Mills CEO Steve Sanger recently told 90 of his colleagues: 'As you all know, last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. Twenty years ago, few CEOs received feedback from their colleagues. Vital to these efforts is CEO support and involvement.

Development 125

Development 360-Degree Feedback CEO Reputation 125

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

His profit contribution was so vast that the CEO promoted him into management. He was surly and offensive to everyone, even to the CEO, who called me in to 'help him change now.' Twenty years ago, few CEOs received feedback from their colleagues--or candidly discussed that feedback and their personal developmental plans.

360-Degree Feedback 115

360-Degree Feedback Gordon CEO Learning-by-Doing 115

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

Taking a lesson from the signature phrase in the illustrated children’s book, The Little Engine That Could , the Leamington community did not throw in the towel. That’s right, one day. But, one little town was not about to give in to the seemingly inevitable. The pressure mounted and the grocery chain folded.

Retail 100

Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself.

Press Release 193

Press Release Discount PR Parcell 193

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. The CEO of Volkswagen from 1993 to 2002 was famous for his willingness to demote or fire employees who failed to meet expectations. Does your company cover for employees in ethical lapses?

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. Design and re-engineering of products-services. CEO accepts and ideas and philosophies with employees and stakeholders. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. When a business loses sight of the customer and what they really need they often run into difficulties.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those. ” The motive force behind institutional failure is leadership failure. He didn’t set ethical boundaries in a scoop-focused media market, and he hired executives who didn’t set policies and procedures to preclude such acts.

Ethics 8

Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. The ethical case for resisting Chinese regulation is clear. China has long enforced a strict media and information regime.

Ethics 8

Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

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.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Then–Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appalled : "Sergey, among your many ideas, this is the worst." (The The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. The legal and regulatory entanglements were apparently deemed too daunting to confront.)

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Here are the seven C-level skills and traits companies prize most: Leadership. The skills cited as most indispensable for C-level executives—not just CEOs—are those that jointly constitute leadership. Ethical leadership was also mentioned. Ethical leadership was also mentioned.

Skills 8

Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

One of its major suppliers is under an ethics investigation resulting in significant delays. And a very visible acquisition under Mauricio’s leadership is struggling. Mauricio knew that he must carve out time for strategic conversations with his leadership team, but during a one-on-one coaching session he told me he was puzzled.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Strategy Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Three CEOs in six years. Two of those CEOs who embarrassed themselves with inept campaigns for elective office. The other CEO who managed to get tossed out of his job by virtue of his (still largely unexplained) fascination with a B-level (and that's grading generously) actress. Where is the succession planning?

Venture Capitalist 14

Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

Howard Schulz, the CEO of Starbucks, is not an empty suit. Schulz talks about his mission in a way that's very different from most CEOs. As Schulz sets across the country to promote his book, I'm hoping he'll help to launch a national conversation about a different kind of leadership, and a different kind of business model.

Conference 15

Conference Business Model CEO Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Crisis management is the ultimate stress test for the CEO and other top leaders of companies. million Chevy Cobalts with an ignition defects that, under certain conditions, would turn off the engine suddenly and disable airbargs, leading to a number of crashes and at least 12 deaths.

Crisis Management 8

Crisis Management Crisis Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

IBM recently asked this question of 1,700 CEOs in 64 countries. The three leadership traits that most mattered were the ability to focus intensely on customer needs, the ability to collaborate with colleagues — and the ability to inspire. Leadership Managing people' What do top executives want from their leaders?

Learning-by-Doing 12

Learning-by-Doing Goal Ethics Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

election mean for businesses is a fact that’s getting too little attention, but that CEOs and business leaders will definitely need to adjust to: it’s gotten much harder to keep your company’s secrets. The 21st-Century CEO. Leadership is changing — fast. Insight Center. Sponsored by Cognizant.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage PR Information Fashion 8

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

He also attended MIT, where he received 3 degrees: a Masters in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. Here’s his impact: Sal holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was the president of his class. in Mathematics. Thought I was what?

Hedge 312

Hedge Class Video Career 312

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. ” Hiring for Growth. .”

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

That 2% includes all the doctors, lawyers, accountants and engineers… those of us who actually advise. 70% of corporate CEOs think that business is too much focused on the short-term. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters.

Budgeting 82

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 82

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation.

Compliance 10

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. In sum, none were suitable candidates to succeed the CEO. What we found was an incredible paradox. But that potential had been squandered.

Drotter 8

Drotter Charan Leadership Pipeline Short-term 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Leadership. by John • March 21, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing • 1 Comment. Despite pervasive recall awareness, we have CEOs, many who run companies with substantial capacity to maim the domain of life, with their heads in the sand. Leadership. Main menu Home.

Brand 140

Brand CEO Long-term Crisis 140

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Herb Kelleher — its CEO for 35 years — once said: “Given enough time and money, your competitors can duplicate almost everything you’ve got working for you. They can reverse-engineer your processes. Zappos’ CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer-Led Culture. Culture That Drives Performance.

Emotional Intelligence 9

Emotional Intelligence GDP McKinsey Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

Early this year, Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly ended the company''s "results only work environment" (ROWE) program that judged corporate employees only on (gasp!) Because women CEOs are held to higher standards , that''s why.). For upper-middle class men, notes sociologist Michèle Lamont, ambition and a strong work ethic are "doubly sacred.

Morale 9

Morale Class Cooper Ethics 9