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). Triple Crown leaders integrate five practices that build excellent, ethical, and enduring organizations : Seek “head and heart.” Post “colors.”

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Social Responsibility and Ethics As global awareness of social and environmental issues grows, corporate responsibility and ethical practices have become more important than ever. It is about quality, not just quantity. Operations are the foundation of every company. Few organizations need more communication.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It differentiates itself from competitors by excelling in the following areas: offers high quality products and services, provides a great customer experience, delights the customer, is trustworthy and is on a journey to be the best in the world at what it does. What are a few of the qualities followers look for in an effective leader?

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 28, 2014

Delegation is not a quality like “demonstrating integrity” or “complying with the law.” ” Honest, ethical and legal behavior is always appropriate – delegation isn’t. In one example, a CEO was frequently traveling. The company was operating in a rapidly changing environment.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

Jobs most at risk: machine operators and assemblers, clerical workers, elementary occupations, crafts and related trades. You could argue that all jobs are at risk: Machines can already analyze data, pick stocks, make decisions that touch on operational efficiency and logistics, sift through resumes and make hiring decisions, etc.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Delegation is not a quality like “demonstrating integrity” or “complying with the law.” Honest, ethical, and legal behavior is always appropriate—delegation isn’t. The CEO naively believed that his employees would always rise to the occasion and see the value of their learning through mistakes they made.

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Delegation Morale Report Learning-by-Doing 152

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The CEO is made stronger with a good C-suite team. Back characters on TV shows included restaurant and bar operators, where the stars went top relax. Those vital employees in the business world might include the IT guy, the receptionist, the mailroom manager, the ethics adviser and the secretary to the Board of Directors.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure. often evoke feelings of hatred at the mere mention of their name.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Jason Richmond is President & CEO of Ideal Outcomes, Inc. A positive culture will improve the quality of your employees’ work, which further supports your reputation and brand image. Culture Is a Passing Fad: For many years, CEOs have shrugged off suggestions to work on their corporate culture.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action. The path toward any accomplishment worthy of note begins with the first step.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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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. Leaders in the organization serve as role models through their ethical behavior and personal involvement in planning, communicating and developing others. No excuses. 4) Hire the RIGHT people.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times. How sad is this?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. When he was brought in as CEO in August 2014, the company wasn’t in great shape.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The answer is for organizations to develop the institutional frameworks to replace traditional structures and forms of governance and establish a more human operating system in which governance, culture and leadership systems are harmonized and synchronized. 4) Seek to inspire, not just motivate. 9) Treat business as inseparable from life.

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How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. Also, the GC now often leads units beyond the legal department, such as public affairs, taxes, and environment. Compliance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. What Can CEOs Do? treating suppliers as partners). Educate and Motivate Others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Steve's interest and skill at manufacturing operations is the cornerstone of his PVP. I look for operations-intensive companies who can benefit from significant performance improvement. Ethically-challenged places are no fun." We could debate whether those industries pose ethical issues, but that's not the point.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. Machines have made great contributions to the quality and accessibility of education, from massive open online courses (MOOCS) to teaching simulations to Khan Academy lessons. An ethical compass.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

With the pressure (or excitement) of finding a new job, it's all too easy to pursue a job opportunity or to accept an offer with only a hazy view of how the institution really operates. Learn how the organization operates. Except for ethical issues, there's no absolute standard of what's best in organizational culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

Consider these three examples: In 2014 the US healthcare retailer CVS decided to stop selling cigarettes, at an estimated cost of $2 billion, due to it being “the right thing for us to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health,” according to Larry Merlo, CEO. Insight Center.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Key components of courage include clarity of one’s own values, a deep sense of ethicality, being positively self-critical,being able to let go and move on, resilience to setbacks. My top leadership book recommendation is Everybody Matters by Bob Chapman, CEO of Barry-Wehmiller. This book doesn’t yet exist.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lack of understanding about this often leads to increased levels of turnover and increased costs in hiring replacements, both at the management (CEO) level or at operational levels, not just in terms of HR cost but also the time that could have been saved had this understanding been reached much earlier. .

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S. It is not about you.

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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? It contains what I believe to be the necessary qualities a leader must possess to be successful.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In a survey conducted by IBM in 2010 with more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide, 80% of leaders anticipated greater complexity in the future, but fewer than half of them felt confident to deal with that complexity. John Mackey, co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, discovered his noble purpose early in his life.

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Ethics Morale Airlines CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

For example, during CEO Mary Barra’s testimony in Washington, few lawmakers seemed interested in exactly how GM plans to change its processes, and Barra, while acknowledging that the company needs to improve safety procedures, made it clear that the company won’t share the data from its internal investigation of ignition-switch defects.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Ethically, the choice is simple. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board uncovered widespread cheating by Volkswagen on emissions standards – something Michael Horn, president and CEO of Volkswagen America, was alerted to a year earlier but remained silent. Should they self-disclose the issue?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Today, as chairman of APCO Worldwide’s China operations , I have a deep view into the China operations of dozens of multinationals, and through that I can see that management in China is going through yet another phase. The work ethic of Chinese employees is still fierce. Their ambitions remain formidable.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

They want the companies they buy from to trade in an ethical and responsible way, and for the organizations they work for to not only make a positive difference to the world, but to offer them work that is fulfilling and enriching in equal measure. Lastly, the six week residential accelerator is a fully immersive experience.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The general counsel, not the senior partner in the law firm, is now often the go-to counselor for the CEO and the board on law, ethics, public policy, corporate citizenship, and country and geopolitical risk. It is thus no surprise that the quality of general counsel has risen dramatically over the past two decades.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Rationalizing poor service or quality: You won’t get it any better elsewhere. Quality is our middle name. Quality is as good as it ever will be. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Quality is as quality does.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The primary purpose of this "triple bottom line" strategy was to look at innovative business models that would deliver high quality growth whilst simultaneously ensuring the creation of sustainable livelihoods (to fight poverty) and fresh natural capital (to combat scarcity of resources). Society no longer tolerates hollow promises.

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