Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2016

The leading futurist in this field concluded his recommendations by saying, “I believe that every CEO should be assigned a therapist when they take the job.”. In fact, the opposite may happen: the CEO could be the roadblock to the whole transformative process. At one conference I attended (the Direct Marketing Association, no less!)

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Innovation involves trying out new things, making improvements, and seeing what works in the market. Many CEOs, the top leaders of companies, often focus on short-term goals because that’s how they’re rewarded in their jobs. This takes time and patience. But there’s a problem.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

For the last 20 years, and all around the world, we CEOs have invested untold millions into the question: “What does it take to have an engaged workplace culture?” How to Be a Soul-Sucking CEO. But I am also continually surprised to see an almost entrenched, dated attitude CEOs have toward their people and their culture.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business. The challenge for leaders in the West today has become the fixation on short-term results. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

The day after Jeffrey Immelt became CEO of General Electric, he had an even bigger challenge to deal with—the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In his twenty years as CEO, GE’s value had risen 4,000 percent. Much of what needed to be done at GE were long-term propositions. I N SEPTEMBER 2001, Jack Welch was a tough act to follow.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Winning Now, Winning Later : How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term by David Cote. The outcome was phenomenal.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It leads to short-term thinking. Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. It also undermines long-term business performance.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Vrio Corp has been committed to following market trends and increasing its value proposition through transformation: investing in technology and content aligned with the consumers’ habits, emphasizing the next generation. Despite an effort to implement these changes, many organizations still fall short of a successful transformation.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Which brings us back to those folks in the corporate driver’s seat — the CEO. Doesn’t much of a CEO’s job consist of being on the receiving end of ever-increasing floods of data that can now be gleaned in real time from inputs around the globe? BDAI (for short) is excellent at making sense out of the current state.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. by John • November 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Life , Marketing , Strategy • 0 Comments. But unlike finite measurements such as sales, market share, profit, stock price or market cap, momentum remains an intangible – a powerful one. Main menu Home. Leadership. About John.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

Think of any top performing CEO and you’ll find that to the one, they possess an uncanny ability to focus on highest and best use activities. While most executives that have reached the C-suite level understand the importance of scaling via delegation, far too many CEOs struggle with the effective implementation of the concept.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 2, 2020

Third, the economic downturn coupled with a recent run-up of stock market prices increases the risk of a stock market correction, a particular concern for individuals relying on their investments to fund their children’s education or their retirement. Short-term stress is one thing. Second, the upcoming U.S.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. In servant-leadership terms, this is a failure of the principle, THOROUGHNESS. To be thorough means putting long-term results ahead of short-term gains.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

No longer is it acceptable for CEO’s to focus on short-term gain to line their pockets. Rather, business leaders need to take a longer term approach, which means no longer being driven by the 90-day reporting cycles of the world’s stock markets. In the short term, that is,” he is quoted as saying.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Of course, an entrepreneurial leader needs to know about subjects like financial management, competitive strategy, market analysis, and the like. Donaldson and Karl Weber extract relevant lessons for leaders in Entrepreneurial Leader. The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Short-termism is seldom regarded as a positive attribute for managers to adopt, especially at a time of disruption and change. Alas, research from the Cornell Business School suggests that American firms, and indeed investors and policymakers, are actually becoming more and more short-term oriented. Discounted returns.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

Organizations reorganize too quickly when an initiative falls short instead of regrouping, adjusting their approach and re-executing well. Marketing matters. Unfortunately, in most organizations marketing is a haphazard practice. Marketing is the epitome of delayed gratification. Marketing is a marathon not a sprint.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 4, 2011

I had an email yesterday from a CEO who described himself as “constantly being sucked down into the weeds.&# Things have spun so far out of control that I recently had a CEO ask: “Is strategy still relevant in today’s business world, and if so, what role does strategy play in the overall make-up of a CEO’s duties and responsibilities?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 5, 2020

What if there’s a market downturn? Across markets, incentive-based compensation tends to increase as the scope of responsibility increases. You should expect a CEO to have a much more incentive-driven compensation package than an entry-level analyst. . Explain why the deferred upside is more important to you than near-term cash.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 27, 2013

What drives your daily activities—your long-term vision or making the numbers this quarter? If you’re a board member, do you incentivize your executives to make a long-term contribution for the company or to keep the shareholders happy this quarter? Why are you in business? You will learn things you would have missed had you not tried.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. In servant-leadership terms, this is a failure of the principle, THOROUGHNESS. To be thorough means putting long-term results ahead of short-term gains.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 18, 2022

This bureaucracy is compounded by the lack of uniform reporting structure, with some reporting to the CEO, others to the CFO, and others again the chief strategy officer. Playing the short game. This often results in long-term objectives being sacrificed for short-term wins.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In terms of rectification, you have to look at the issue in the context of whether the problem is a short-term blip or the beginning of a long-term shift to your business or industry. Sure, it isn’t business as usual, and yes, every CEO has to make some moves to shore up sales and profits.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 2, 2017

A company, feeling it was time for a shake-up, hires a new CEO. On a tour of the facilities, the CEO notices a guy leaning on a wall. The CEO walks up the guy and asks, “And how much money do you make a week? And when you identify an area of knowledge that you can’t fill in a short conversation, make a plan to get smart.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They know that for deep purpose to take hold, both their daily actions and long-term strategic plans must be consistent with the overarching purpose. Based on my research, I have found that when leaders practice deep purpose, their long-term financial performance actually improves in comparison with their convenient-purpose counterparts.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

However, now that I look back from the CEO afterlife, I realize that this view need not be pervasive. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. With only 100% available to the players of the market share game, you knew whether your play(s) made you a winner or a loser. But hold on for a moment.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The short answer is: absolutely because, as we touched on above, executive coaching is far different than standard business coaching. One Stanford study revealed that while two-thirds of CEOs say they don’t receive any leadership advice, almost 100% of them want it and welcome executive coaching.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2018

S INCE STEPPING DOWN as CEO of Cisco in 2015, John Chambers founded the venture capital firm JC2 Ventures specializing in startups. When you compete against a market transition, you learn how to see around corners.” First, know where you are and define it in human terms. In short, we are not reinventing ourselves.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After all, it’s the nature of a business - going from Point A to Point B as quickly and efficiently as possible, to gain a competitive advantage and secure the market share necessary for success. It was “slash and burn” our way to a “profitable exit” over a very short term. Go for it, and lead well!

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 22, 2012

When I was on the ‘hot seat’ and in the line of fire as a CEO, I constantly dealt with pressing day-to-day issues such as bringing in the quarter, forecasting erratic commodity markets, reacting to predatory pricing, and stressing over sales shortfalls and excess inventory. Lead the market with a strategic initiative.

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Brigette Hyacinth

APRIL 9, 2020

Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor is giving up his pay for the rest of the year, (March 18, 2020, to Jan. These companies are just focusing on the short term. And if I was in the job market, an interview question I would definitely ask would be, “how did your company handle the pandemic?”. Consider the long term impacts.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2013

If you’re an attractive, young woman in business who has worked in sales or marketing (and sometimes, even if you haven’t worked in those departments), you’ve probably been sent to a trade show (or marketing event) to “man the booth” for the primary reason to attract male attendees to the booth.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

This year’s 2014 world Cup performance is no exception, despite all the marketing hype and social media frenzy. And there are a very large number of middle market search firms who are hired by HR to find new managers and mid-level executives for their companies. Many great CEOs came up through the GE Executive Development system.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Expectations are higher than ever, and businesses that do not place purpose at the forefront risk falling short. Businesses that deliver on a mission and a purpose stand to reap huge rewards—especially in the long term. The vision is about the long-term goals—where the organization is going and what it would like to achieve.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Expectations are higher than ever, and businesses that do not place purpose at the forefront risk falling short. Businesses that deliver on a mission and a purpose stand to reap huge rewards—especially in the long term. The vision is about the long-term goals—where the organization is going and what it would like to achieve.

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