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GM Cruise Layoffs Affecting Almost 24% of the Workforce

HR Digest

The unit’s CEO Kyle Vogt and co-founder Dan Kan both resigned last month. On Wednesday, Cruise fired nine executives, including its chief operating officer and chief legal and policy officer amid an external investigation led by law firm Quinn Emmanuel into the accident and Cruise’s response.

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Choice Point: Do Not Let Your Culture Kill You by Robert Quinn @LeadWithLift. The Steve Jobs Way Leaders can learn a lot from the late Apple CEO, but not all of it should be emulated. Superb interview with interim CEO Kazuo Inamori. @Leadershipfreak: If you know more than everyone on your team, you have a weak team. "

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Time For Women to Compete

Women on Business

Seventy years have passed since women left the confines of being homemakers and joined the work force en mass. Today, in 2012, there are only 12 Fortune 500 companies are led by women CEO’s. The CEO spot is not handed to someone that does not actively seek to take it, fighting off others as needed.

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Thought-full Thursday: Purpose and Confidence

Persuasive Powerhouse

Quinn What is your leadership purpose? “The practice of adaptive confidence means that we are willing to enter uncertain situations because we have a higher purpose and are confident that we can learn and adapt as we move forward” ~Robert E. Are you acting in accord with your purpose? Do you enter uncertainty with your purpose in mind?

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Turning Purpose Into Performance

Harvard Business Review

Gerry Anderson, the CEO of DTE Energy, and Robert Quinn and Anjan Thakor, professors at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the Olin Business School at Washington University, respectively, discuss how an aspirational mission can motivate employees and improve performance.

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Why More Executives Should Consider Becoming a CHRO

Harvard Business Review

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? We interviewed search professionals, CEOs, and CHROs with nontraditional backgrounds to find out what happens when business leaders outside of HR move into the role. That’s precisely what we found.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Quinn and Anjan Thakor shared an experience they had while working with a global oil company that took a top-down approach to define the company’s purpose: “They [a task force assigned by the CEO] handed us a document representing months of work; it articulated a purpose, a mission, and a set of values.