Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

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. Twenty years ago, few CEOs received feedback from their colleagues. But crucial to all these efforts were CEO support and involvement.

Development 180

Development 360-Degree Feedback CEO Open-book 180

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. Unported License.

Technology 247

Technology Forrester Licensing Software 247

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 million employers, 1.5

Ethics 184

Ethics Morale Open-book Blog 184

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. Strategy doesn’t belong only to MBAs and management consultants.

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Strategy Ethics Transportation Consultative 153

Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Art Petty of About Money Management and Leadership provided Reinventing the Organization and Leadership for a Digital Era. Art writes, “The emerging digital and technology-driven world demands that we rethink everything about how we manage, lead, structure and run our organizations. Let’s Get Started. Meet Annette Verschueren.”

Leadership Development 170

Leadership Development Development Leadership Advice 170

Lead on Purpose

MARCH 8, 2010

CEOs are praised for their vision. Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. Product managers have to be looking months or years into the future. management), the work the PMs did to make the release happen is long forgotten. management), the work the PMs did to make the release happen is long forgotten.

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Taylorism Taylor Ethics Godin 145

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. Bottom line: if you don’t have youth represented in your senior management and leadership teams – get some. Leadership myatt talent'

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Disruptive Innovation Belief Systems Bottom-up Tactics 133

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

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Aisle Three: Backpacks: Guy Harris presents One Way to Head Off a Conflict: Manage Expectations posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, "As leaders, we can decrease the emotional reaction people may have in uncomfortable situations by giving them information and clarifying expectations." Kevin is CEO of i4cp.

Leadership Development 248

Leadership Development Development Leadership Team Building 248

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

Mike's score for treating colleagues with respect was dismal; in fact, out of 1,000 managers rated, he was dead last! 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.'

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

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

On that score, the company’s Code of Ethics claimed that “gaming” (the manipulation and / or misrepresentation of sales or referrals) was against the rules and grounds for dismissal. CEO John Stumpf set the tone. We’re in the business of helping clients measure and manage culture. They’d typically ask: “Why are you here?”

Competitive Advantage 97

Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 97

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

In July, the CEO of Whole Foods Markets issued a mea culpa after the supermarket was found to have manipulated product data, over-stating the weight of pre-packaged produce and meats. While top managers take the fall for these scandals, none of the dubious activities could have happened without the active participation of technical teams.

Ethics 8

Ethics Software Engineering Technology 8

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. What’s the tone from upper management?

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

CEO Dearest Why PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Just as women in the corporate world are entering management, in many cases their parents are becoming needy elders, their kids are growing into needy adolescents, and with midlife bearing down, their husbands are often reverting into needy teenagers, she says. “So Gender Work life balance'

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CEO Meyer Sports Ethics 22

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

IMD Business School’s Mark Greeven and Imperial College London’s George Yip suggest that the engine of this growth is in what they refer to as China’s hidden champions. billion raised by the wealth management platform Lufax. billion raised by Baidu spinoff Du Xiaoman Financial and the $1.3

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

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. I know of the CEO of a company who takes Fridays off during winter as “personal ski days.&# I can’t see one. I’ve noticed that male leaders take time off.

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Press Release Discount PR Parcell 193

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. All members of top management have Business Development responsibilities.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

CEO Dearest Why PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Just as women in the corporate world are entering management, in many cases their parents are becoming needy elders, their kids are growing into needy adolescents, and with midlife bearing down, their husbands are often reverting into needy teenagers, she says. “So Gender Work life balance'

CEO 8

CEO Meyer Sports Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Have you ever pondered what you''d ask the CEO if you were made chairman of the board for 10 minutes and could pose one question? Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. You''d want a question that would strip away the cloak of invincibility and reveal the CEO''s innermost fears.

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CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Crisis management is the ultimate stress test for the CEO and other top leaders of companies. The mantra for all leaders in crisis management must be: “It is our problem the moment we hear about it. On these important safety issues, the CEO should also keep the board informed.

Crisis Management 8

Crisis Management Crisis Management CEO 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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Clean Up Your Subcontracts 4 Tips for Business to Ensure Ethical, Slavery-Free Supply Chains The Guardian It may not seem like a topic for a listicle, but this quick rundown of what businesses need to keep in mind to avoid exploiting vulnerable people – and becoming embroiled in often well-deserved PR nightmares — is entirely useful.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

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. An HBR Management Puzzle. What a pity. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. How to Repair Your Data.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

The skills cited as most indispensable for C-level executives—not just CEOs—are those that jointly constitute leadership. Ethical leadership was also mentioned. Change-management. Virtually unacknowledged and underappreciated until quite recently, change-management skills are in growing demand.

Skills 8

Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 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? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

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?

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Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 14

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.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

IBM recently asked this question of 1,700 CEOs in 64 countries. To address this question we engaged in what some might refer to as a reverse-engineering exercise. Or maybe he encouraged the team to find an ethical goal that focused on the organization''s mission (in which case he took the "principled" route).

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Learning-by-Doing Goal Ethics Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. To: Anil Baba, CEO. He joined just after completing his BS in engineering and has had an excellent progression with the company. To: Patrick Fishburn, Asst.

Case Study 10

Case Study Engineering Commitment Operations 10

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. Some weeks I don’t manage three times. in Mathematics. Thought I was what? Laura Dean 11.29.10 So what are you doing? Life: Yes, me too.

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Hedge Class Video Career 312

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

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. Buried amid the furor of speculation about what results of the U.S. Insight Center.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage PR Information Fashion 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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Crisis McKinsey Resources Article 80

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

That 2% includes all the doctors, lawyers, accountants and engineers… those of us who actually advise. 92% of all business mistakes may be attributed to poor management decisions. 70% of corporate CEOs think that business is too much focused on the short-term. The average person and organization changes 71% per year.

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

JUNE 27, 2017

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. Whatever the form factor, companies must skillfully manage any future shifts in customer interactions. And then there are ethical challenges.

Brand 9

Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 9