Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Ben Salzmann, CEO Acuity Insurance: “You can’t innovate in a vacuum. Take the same person and let them talk and look around and interact, and they will come up with great innovations. If you take the best genius and give them a year, feed ‘em the best food and lock ‘em in a room—a year later they don’t look so smart.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 21, 2013

General Motors named Mary Barra to be the next chief executive officer (CEO). Kathleen Taylor was named the next chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. Lang , President & CEO, Catalyst. Diverse business leadership and governance are correlated with stronger business performance, employee engagement, and innovation.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was always my friend. Virgin Galactic founder and CEO Sir Richard Branson is not seeking to just build a faster passenger aircraft. Self Leadership Dreams Innovation Inspiration' Oh, I did not actually know Sam personally. . But, his poetry made me feel like I was in a conversation with an old friend.

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Career Advancement

MAY 15, 2017

Client Taylor Asks: I asked my employees for honest feedback on my performance, and a few of them said I’m too authoritative in the way I speak to them. Coach Joel Answers: When David Steiner became CEO of Waste Management, Inc., Rather, solicit their ideas for managing the change or devising innovative solutions.

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CO2

AUGUST 17, 2010

Interview with Charlie Firestone and Vivian who is the CEO of NPR. Vivian Schiller CEO of NPR at the Aspen Institute 2010 gives insights into the importance of New Literacy. We are faced with a tsunami of information. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Career Advancement

MAY 15, 2017

Client Taylor Asks: I asked my employees for honest feedback on my performance, and a few of them said I’m too authoritative in the way I speak to them. Coach Joel Answers: When David Steiner became CEO of Waste Management, Inc., Rather, solicit their ideas for managing the change or devising innovative solutions.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the early 20th century, Frederick Taylor promoted the profitable benefits of business efficiency, productivity, and increasing worker output. Taylor’s business process analysis gave birth to his theory of scientific management, which came to be known by modern-day businesses as, “business process management,” or BPM.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Jason Little, author of Lean Change Management, discusses his collection of innovative practices for managing organizational change. Danny Peterson was CEO of a large nonprofit organization. Guest: Michael Taylor. Listen in to learn how to gain attention in the sea of information in today’s workplace.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 8, 2010

CEOs are praised for their vision. Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. Top salespeople are rewarded with high commissions. The rewards for applied skill and hard work come quickly after the work is complete.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Jim Burke, former Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson Filed under: Leadership , Trust , Uncategorized Tagged: | business , relationships , Speed of Trust , Stephen M.R. Covey , success « Keeping the best A new Leadership Development Carnival » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 18, 2010

He has proven this as a coach and as a successful CEO. Living these five championship strategies will make an incredible difference in your success. As Larry says: “these strategies work!&# Don’t miss this podcast ; you’ll be glad you listened.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 26, 2010

In his book The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit , author Nat Stoddard (with help from Claire Wyckoff) investigates the complex topic of assuring smooth executive transitions, with their primary focus at the CEO level. .&# Whether you’re a CEO or an intern, you have the opportunity to lead.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The same holds true for the CEO and executives at smaller companies. In big companies product managers need to work effectively with the directors and VPs of the groups listed above. They should know these leaders personally and be able to walk into their office and have a discussion.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Check out the special offer to get free seats to Bill Taylor’s online presentation, courtesy of @ Leadershipfreak [link] #. Innovate like a Kindergartner [link] # innovation #creativity #. Should CEOs Have Term Limits? The evils of multitasking [link] # productivity #. by @ mikemyatt [link] # leadership #.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Covey drives this point home nicely in his book The Speed of Trust : I’ll never forget what one CEO said about the risk of investing in a focused training initiative for his company. Don’t let the cost of training deter you from training your people. Stephen M.R.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Taylor Swift Workplace performance reviews Cheering on a sports team that’s not your usual team Whether hens lay eggs with or without the presence of a rooster (No joke! Fawn Weaver, the founder and CEO of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, shared one of her favorite examples with me. What were these juicy conversation topics, you ask?

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Prior to assuming CEO responsibilities for US Cellular in 1999 Jack had created a “virtual organization&# where he and other executives provided leadership to the company; he empowered their employees to make decisions and run the business.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

Yahoo’s new CEO Carol Bartz has shown the need to drive ideas to strategies from the highest levels of the company. At Autodesk (where she was CEO for 14 years) she delivered annual sales growth of 13% and increased the stock value more than eight times. This is the primary responsibility of product managers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. What can be done, in the spirit of Bill’s admonishment, is to stop getting tangled up in all of the variations, nuances, tools, techniques, models, frameworks, and paradigms of innovation.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products. Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Purpose , Team Building , Trust Tagged: | Albert J.

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CO2

JULY 20, 2010

Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

It was written not long before I became CEO of Google, and its message is one that truly influenced me as CEO — and continues to influence me today. HBR Lives Where Taylorism Died. Google prides itself on being a nimble and inventive company, even as it grows larger and larger.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. HBR Lives Where Taylorism Died. For decades, the utility-metering industry was dominated by a handful of middle-market companies, many of which still run successful and profitable businesses.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. What are you passionate about? What drives your economic engine? Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These are really helpful questions if you take them to the extreme and I so often do not find CEOs, Executive Directors, or Managing Partners being pushed far enough on becoming clear in their answer to these questions. What are you passionate about? What drives your economic engine? Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

CEOs are thirsty for insight from the front lines. He has a ton of insight and perspective about Salesforce that Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce, would be better off knowing. He has a ton of insight and perspective about Salesforce that Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce, would be better off knowing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. by Bill Taylor. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. How the science of attention blindness can help you improve your innovative thinking. Penney's new CEO on how to create an irresistible retail experience. by James Allworth. Was Marx Right?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

After bouncing the concept off of several industry CEOs, but still unsure whether he could pull it off, last summer Dirk began to recruit speakers for what he called a Provocation Summit. According to several CEOs who I've worked with, this is the most significant cultural and business challenge that they see in their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

They will invent innovative ways to explain away poor performance ("Oh, problems with our vendors affected our customers and depressed our scores," "The market was down," or "The weather was bad."). The creativity that should be going toward finding innovative ways to wow customers often finds a different and more dangerous outlet.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

As I said in my original post, the great sweep of business and innovation has increased the power of the individual and the small team over the lumbering her. Or, as one of the commenters on my post suggested, one Shakespeare is worth more than 100 Bill Taylors. The "smart" do, in fact, take from the "strong."

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition Dennis N. Perkins with Margaret P. Holtman, Paul R. Kessler, and Catherine McCarthy The Yale Book of Quotations Fred R. Shapiro, [.].

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One of the pioneers of challenge-based innovation has been the XPRIZE, and I wrote recently about the growing number of student teams that are participating in competitions. But if trained the right way, juniors have tremendous potential,” József Boda, CEO of CodeCool told me. Finding heroes. ” Broad experience.

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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. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. A hallmark of the successful 32% was the involvement of mid-level managers two or more levels below the CEO.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As he saw it, that money should go into two basic functions of business: marketing and innovation. He thought the company had to innovate or it would eventually die. Through a customer, if you created a customer and you did this properly and everything, of course more profit came. Basically, he saw a business was not for profit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

Anytime a CEO, quarterback, engineer or author is paid ridiculous amounts of money, dozens of investors, armchair quarterbacks, and scholars jump in to debate the value of individual contributors versus teams. I have heard plenty of people argue that no one individual is worth the price of many.

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