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The Seven Tests of A CEO

Leading Blog

In The CEO Test by the always insightful Adam Bryant and by the former Amgen president and CEO Kevin Sharer, they present seven tests that really all leaders face in one form or another. They call it the CEO test because the intensity and consequences of these challenges grow as you move into higher levels of leadership.

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For CEOs, Safe Decisions Aren’t Always Safe

N2Growth Blog

We need CEOs who want others to do better and be better. What we don’t need is more CEOs who hide in safe harbors. You can spot a struggling (and potentially failing) CEO a mile off by simply looking at the types of decisions they make. CEOs whose default setting is to “play it safe” do not impress me.

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Guidelines for Writing Your Goals

Tony Mayo

CEO Executive Coaching Fees My Protein Shake Recipe One more question. Biography of Werner Erhard, the Source of Executive Coaching How to Conduct a "Customer Listening Session" Twitter Log XII Spidertown by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. Above all, be sure your goals are describing specific, measurable results (SMRs).

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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Great Leadership By Dan

Originally a program created by the United States Forest Service in the late 1980s, the organization offers guidelines to people who venture into the wilderness to help reduce their negative impact and preserve it for future generations. LNT has become the gold standard for organizations who operate in America’s backcountry environments.

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Should We “Defund” Leadership?

Lead Change Blog

The scene I want to spotlight is one in which Apple CEO John Scully sent over a man charged with managing the General Magic engineering group. Effective leaders give servers the freedom to solve customer problems and answer questions on the spot within flexible guidelines. . But all that was to get you to watch the movie.

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Stepped Decision-Making

Lead Change Blog

This principle goes for all hierarchical levels in the organization, from the CEO to management teams, and all the way down to the work floor. It helps when you up-front invest in agreeing general guidelines with your team members on an individual basis. Escalation guidelines and routes also need to be agreed.

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Can a CEO be brutally honest?

Women on Business

Can a CEO be brutally honest? Everyone from sales clerks to CEO’s have been talking about the ‘burning platform memo’ from Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop. I think that it can, if you stick to these guidelines. Read the full memo here, here.) In the memo, Elop takes a hard and critical look at Nokia and its performance.

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