In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Sure, it isn’t business as usual, and yes, every CEO has to make some moves to shore up sales and profits. CEO’s justify across-the-board cuts because they think it is fair. When I was a CEO, I managed to squirrel away a “rainy day” fund for nasty business blips. It may be, but it isn’t smart. At best, they are managers.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam to The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 24, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Henna Inam (a CEO Coach) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 25, 2011

Lisa Hershman is a seasoned business professional and author, who brings a wealth of real-world experience and an innovative style to her position at Hammer and Company. Prior to joining Hammer and Company, she served as Corporate Senior Vice President of Operational Excellence at Avnet, Inc.,

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Sure, it isn’t business as usual, and yes, every CEO has to make some moves to shore up sales and profits. CEO’s justify across-the-board cuts because they think it is fair. When I was a CEO, I managed to squirrel away a “rainy day” fund for nasty business blips. Tighten your belt, but re-think these quick fixes: 1.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

There isn’t a doubt in my mind that the leadership principles that worked for me as a CEO continue to apply to the current era of light speed communications and decision-making. But the resource that continues to be overlooked by CEOs and Boards is the organization’s Average Joe and average Jane. Leaders ought to treat them as such.

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Tony Mayo

AUGUST 22, 2009

CEO Executive Coaching Fees My Protein Shake Recipe One more question. Experimenters showed peasants drawings of a hammer, a saw, an axe, and a log and then asked them to choose the three items that were similar. Literates saw optical illusions; illiterates sometimes didn’t. Illiterates resisted, saying that all the items were useful.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

What she has done for youth and their families in Haiti demonstrates courage, compassion, purpose and leadership savvy few CEO’s of any age possess. I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. In the U.S.,

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 19, 2011

Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer’s “Industry Leaders” series. The Glass Hammer is an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Here is an excerpt from an article about Ancella Livers written by Melissa J.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, Deborah Sweeney, the CEO of MyCorporation, learned early that she should never settle for less than her best. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Then I could map my solution to what makes them successful,” said Benson, who now is founder and CEO of Badger Maps.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, Deborah Sweeney, the CEO of MyCorporation , learned early that she should never settle for less than her best. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Then I could map my solution to what makes them successful,” said Benson, who now is founder and CEO of Badger Maps.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

.” Returning to the concept of snap-fit, this is a reference to something I first read about in an account of the remarkable turnaround of Xerox between 1982 and 1990, one shared by CEO David Kearns in his 1992 book, Prophets in the Dark. ” The remaining parts required mallets to assemble.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s also possible that her company’s CEO and senior leaders may only be paying it lip service at best. Their boss is always hammering, er…, asking them about it. Succession planning usually becomes real when the CEO or Board of Directors begins to lose sleep over a lack of talent to fill key roles.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

So he asked the CMO to broker a meeting with the CEO to make a presentation on the subject. During the presentation the CEO was polite, if noncommittal. But the CMO could sense a duplicity in the CEO’s behavior and attitude as the parties all headed back to their respective offices. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This is a post by August Turak, author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks : One CEO''s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. Don''t figure it out.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 1, 2012

.” How about the 37-year-old woman, pregnant with her first child, named the new CEO of a $5 billion company that last year had net profits of $1 billion. With Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo appointment, there are now 20 female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. So how do you get to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2011

In it Sonnenfeld noted that while some aging CEOs exited gracefully while they still enjoyed wide acclaim, many hung on too long, reluctant to face their own mortality. As Bloomberg's third term wears on, and wears thin, CEOs and other leaders would do well to heed its lessons. Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 Conspicuously absent from the photo was Uber’s CEO , Travis Kalanick. On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. ” Here is the takeaway.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

Most leaders aren’t CEOs. One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer. Nudge into discomfort Ginny Rometty, the CEO of IBM, is right when she says, “Growth and comfort don’t coexist.” They are heads of teams, departments, and divisions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. They add that strong support comes not only from the CEO and IT executives but also from all other C-level officers and the board of directors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. Whelan : Most of the CEOs did talk about policy in the interviews, but their statements were pretty vague. Future Economy. Future Thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Five years earlier, when he’d stepped into his role, he’d been focused on growing the company that his father, Eric — the previous CEO — had founded. Lance sighed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

To understand its sustainability journey better, I spoke with the company’s head of environment, Sylvie Benard , and the CEOs of two of its wine and spirits brands. Charles Gibb, Belvedere’s CEO, says it made a strategic choice to invest in this project, even though it had a longer payback period than normal.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

If the operation being closed or downsized is large or historically important to the company, the CEO should make at least one visit. While I was CEO of Quest Diagnostics, we acquired SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL). Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Set the tone.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

A year after that documentary, I had the opportunity to interview Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford to learn how to build and sustain a culture where people would want to work with and for you. Reckford told me that his job as CEO is to inspire and train team leaders to help their teams see stressors as a meaningful group challenge.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Hammered by Wall Street in 2008, the stock has finally crawled back to its 2006 highs. During that exciting era, I had the pleasure of spending half a day with Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz in Seattle. Formerlife: CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Nabob, Kraft), Strategy/Branding Consultant. Main menu Home.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

This type includes engineers and designers who have a lot of talent for building technology products, but, because they've been infected by celebritization hype, limit their ambitions to being able to say, "Hi, I'm the Founder and CEO of Self-Aggrandizing Apps."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

This type includes engineers and designers who have a lot of talent for building technology products, but, because they've been infected by celebritization hype, limit their ambitions to being able to say, "Hi, I'm the Founder and CEO of Self-Aggrandizing Apps."

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Indeed, a central theme of Lumina Foundation CEO James Merisotis’ latest book, Human Work , is that we often struggle to truly understand what skills we have, and indeed what skills we need to have in order to thrive in the modern labor market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is a point often hammered home by Harvard Business School professor and former Medtronic CEO Bill George, who is a vocal advocate for what he calls “ True North Groups.” When facing great odds or forced to deal with unusual or trying circumstances, few of us are fortified enough to act alone, without counsel or support.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Even very talented people (the Weinstein brothers or Bonnie Hammer, for instance) make mistakes. As HBO CEO Richard Piepler explained during the Harvard Business School Entertainment and Media Summit , it's important to give talent creative freedom. It turns out that making entertainment is extremely hard. So does Netflix have an edge?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Another prominent argument is that briefer CEO tenures lead to more short-term thinking. Some studies show that long CEO tenures produce better performance (though that appears to be limited to more stable industries) and lead to better product-safety results. years in 2002 to 7.2 years in 2009. years in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

PON has annually granted this award to a range of remarkable men and women such as former Secretary of State James Baker , Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein , and U.S. This year, PON honored Ambassador Tommy Koh of Singapore as its 2014 “Great Negotiator.” Special Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

“There were catchphrases that had to be hammered into the head of the employees, just like advertising does to the general public.” The most recent two CEOs placed investor returns at the top of their priority lists. .” Industrial musicals weren’t merely about camaraderie and a few chuckles. Gerstner Jr.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s certainly not a new problem, and indeed Solow’s maxim about the computing age coincided with Michael Hammer’s missive about the lack of business process reengineering, but there is little sense that the lessons of that age have been learned. years old by the time they go public, compared to an average of 2.8

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 26, 2013

Bob asked, “Why is it that you can shoot pool, but you can’t hammer nails?” What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read. ” Suddenly, I realized that I did not suffer from some sort of genetic defect.

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