Leading Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

Triple Crown leaders have the goal of building and sustaining organizations that are excellent (high performance), ethical (do the right thing), and enduring (stand the test of time). It requires some finesse to get people on the same page while protecting the innovative mavericks and creating the conditions for operating in a state of flow.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A good CEO costs no more than a bad one – sometimes far less when you consider costly mistakes and lucrative severance packages. There might be elements that are worth emulating, but certainly not the ethic of dominance, because by their very nature, small and medium sized operations have no clout. There are far more than you think.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 #49 Management Thinker 2015, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Pawel Motyl – Formerly CEO HBR Poland, noted speaker, consultant and executive coach, author Labirynt. Doug Winnie – ActionCOACH #1 small business coach 2016.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Pawel Motyl – Formerly CEO Harvard Business Review Poland, noted speaker, consultant and executive coach, author Labirynt Sztuka podejmowania decyzji.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 28, 2012

During my tenure as a CEO, my Board of Directors never challenged me with questions pertaining to the corporate culture. Other than ensuring an ethical environment in the organizations they govern, I suspect today’s Boards still don’t give culture the attention it deserves. I wasn’t surprised in the least.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

We also have a number of different ways we create an open dialogue between our people and our leadership, this includes our regularly all company town hall with our CEO where everything is on the table. We design and innovate to enable authentic self-expression — originality. Our core values here at LS&Co.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. You as the Leader and CEO. One of the issues that tech innovators find is the mad-genius paradox. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

When I was a CMO and CEO, I operated with an entrepreneurial mindset that required taking decisions as early as possible. To be fair, the ‘act early’ ethic prevails in corporate cultures that worship entrepreneurial thinking. But, I’m a disciple of point #4.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Jason Richmond is President & CEO of Ideal Outcomes, Inc. Culture Is a Passing Fad: For many years, CEOs have shrugged off suggestions to work on their corporate culture. The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos and author of Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose has created a great place to work. According to their human resource department, it is harder to get a job at Zappos than to be accepted at Harvard Business School. They have no problem attracting and retaining good people.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 13, 2015

Easily definable” is the element within visions that facilitates the ethic of simplicity, and doing less, better in this complex world of business. When leadership foresight is compelling, inclusive, and easily definable, people want to be a part of it; they want to follow their leader to that place.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Human Resources program is active, professional and responsive to the organization. CEO accepts and ideas and philosophies with employees and stakeholders. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? I am making the case for CMOs and CEOs to recognize the necessity of their own direct and passionate involvement as chief brand custodians. This top management ethic is essential to brand resilience. So, wouldn’t you expect a heck of a lot more corporate attention to commercial brands?

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

CEOs who invest their time advancing their company’s business model or seeking a new one are adding value to their organizations. CEOs that understand and appreciate the notion are intensely passionate about innovation as the means to this end. Innovation starts with insight and progresses through disruptive hypotheses.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

A culture by design has a bedrock of carefully selected company-wide values that motivates employees, delights customers, serves their communities and sparks innovation and creativity. Two of Wells Fargo’s key values are “ethics” and “what’s right for their customers”. How can a company with those supposed ethics commit such an act?

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

CEOs talk focus all the time and nod to its importance, but few take the necessary measures to cut through complexity and clear a path to clarity and coherence. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. Doing less better’ doesn’t mean doing less work. In-N-Out Burger.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

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. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 23, 2016

Why shouldn’t she be a CEO? Calling herself a CEO is the accepted norm. Bill, in his late 50s, worked hard to be tapped as the CEO by the board. He works even harder as the CEO. Bill is frustrated with the work ethic and low levels of engagement within his management and employee ranks. The CEO System Exposed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

How many people in your organization are innovative thinkers who can help with your thorniest strategy problems? Innovation. Philosophers can help you with ethics. Tony Golsby-Smith is the founder and CEO of 2nd Road , a business design and transformation firm headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Just ask P&G's A.G.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. When HR becomes solely a talent race, boards and CEOs can miss the less obvious but equally vital value of managing both new hires and leaders who are facing increasing demands.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their competitive edge eroded because the people at the top, who considered themselves the corporate brain, failed to adapt or innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship made a comeback, albeit in measured bites. Innovators drive the marketplace, followers are the passengers and those who refuse to abolish redundancy are roadkill.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Three years ago, 37% of CEOs were concerned about a lack of trust in businesses, according to the PwC Annual Global CEO survey. The Society of Human Resource Management found that 53% of companies that checked references uncovered falsities about the length of previous employment, and 51% discovered false claims about past salaries.

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