In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 15, 2012

Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. That’s because success for Page and Jobs hinged on the strategic choices they made – primarily which products and applications to bet on.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Business Ownership Strengthens Your Employee Net Worth: In most positions you rarely get the opportunity to experience the functions associated with the roles of a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer, as well as manage the day-to-day requirements for customer engagement and retention.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

Managers are the people that lead a team, give instruction, and see that an organization’s goals are achieved, be it production, branding, or more. In Organizational parlance, there are four types of managers, the c-suite executives, the mid-level, the frontline managers, and the team leaders. Middle managers.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2015

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launched its Sevian Business Programs product line, a collection of immediately implementable business performance improvement process manuals. Sevian Business Programs were developed based on StrategyDriven’s decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7 ! Currently this is the rule, rather than the exception.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 23, 2016

Designing her business cards, she proudly, yet innocently, appoints herself with the title Chief Executive Officer. Unfortunately, her title is a strategic, operational, financial, and cultural derailing eventuality to the intended track of her purpose, vision and values. Why shouldn’t she be a CEO?

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This infographic from the Wall Street Journal captured the typical work week of a Chief Executive Officer in November of 2009. One day a year, I worked in various jobs within our coffee roasting operation, side-by-side with union employees. Nonetheless, I suspect meetings at 18 hours a week isn’t a declining trend.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 14, 2015

A culture of voice can prevent operational surprises that lead to chaos and counter-productive work behaviors amounting to waste. When your organization has a culture of voice, the workforce won''t hold back important work-related information that could inform key decisions and problem resolutions. Related articles.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7 !

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. We are no longer living in that world.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The chief guest for the evening was Ann Francke OBE, the Chief Executive Officer of CMI UK. What we can see now is that what began as an emergency response has led to a more profound change in operating models, with remote working and flexible structures becoming more finessed.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 7, 2014

For people to commit, especially over the long term, they need to have confidence that a company is well-led, heading in the right direction, and well-positioned to deliver products and services they know customers want. To take a line from the X Files, “ the future is out there.” That advice applies to companies just as much as individuals.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In the business world, as a chief executive officer or entrepreneur, corporate messaging is the key to both your personal and professional positioning strategy. It takes a blending of approach to craft the right message and this will not happen when operating in a vacuum.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Compare and contrast this to the high level of secrecy that many brands practice, unveiling product launches all at once with their customers all grouped together as outsiders. The world isn’t going 100% towards raw and away from longer form storytelling or high production value content. We all want to be insiders. Is it dead?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Chief Executive An online magazine written exclusively for chief executive officers and their peers. ** N2′s Top pick for C-suite insights and information. magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management. Business2.0 Inc.com Inc.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. This involves: A review of litigation risk, impact to employee engagement, productivity, and involvement of cross-functional team (Legal, HR, Compliance) to determine the cost factor of the risks involved in cost reduction opportunities.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Perhaps, you should ask these questions: How predictable is the environment in which our unit operates? A classical strategy (the one everyone learned in business school) works well for companies operating in predictable and immutable environments. How much power do we have to change that environment? . Your answers may vary widely.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. This involves: A review of litigation risk, impact to employee engagement, productivity, and involvement of cross-functional team (Legal, HR, Compliance) to determine the cost factor of the risks involved in cost reduction opportunities.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

Bill Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer of Communispond Inc., In a previous role as President of Ziff-Davis Education (now called Element K), Bill oversaw the leading supplier of computer training products worldwide and supervised the operations of ZD University, the leading web-based computer skills site.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. When the critical driver of a business is handling customers in a face-to-face (or, phone to phone) manner, the product is produced and valued over many small interactions. There's no doubt this is a man with vision and drive. Single market.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

About the Author Bill Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer of Communispond Inc., In a previous role as President of Ziff-Davis Education (now called Element K), Bill oversaw the leading supplier of computer training products worldwide and supervised the operations of ZD University, the leading web-based computer skills site.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That’s why Alibaba and Amazon, for example, create and sprinkle autonomous cross-functional teams across their respective companies to invent and deliver products in new ways. These teams regularly come up with innovations that enable these online retailers to roll out more new products and services faster than their competitors.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

When you’re pouring every spare minute into growing your business, taking a break to visit the gym often feels counter-productive. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. What is that!?” I could breathe.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

About the Author Bill Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer of Communispond Inc., In a previous role as President of Ziff-Davis Education (now called Element K), Bill oversaw the leading supplier of computer training products worldwide and supervised the operations of ZD University, the leading web-based computer skills site.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

This isn’t the time to enumerate all the features of the product you’ve been describing – and especially to introduce any new information. About the Author Bill Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer of Communispond Inc., He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

However, hospital or insurance executives in these hospital-based ACOs retain ultimate decision-making power. But a hospital-led system will fail when it tries to increase physician productivity or modify individual compensation. Physicians own and operate these medical groups and hold seats on the foundation’s governing body.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Or was our product not up-to-snuff versus the competition? There's a natural tendency to assume that the losing salespeople lacked sales prowess that the winner possessed or their product was far inferior in some way. Customers are never 100 percent sure they are purchasing the right product. C-Level Executive Access.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Once a technology prototype has been focus-group tested and a viable business model is established, it is handed over to a new product development team in the mainline business units. These teams have disciplined processes to get the technology to market, generally with a one- to two-year product horizon.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

We redesigned our product and, more importantly, we redesigned our company. We used a program called "Lean Building" and brought in all of our trade partners for a solid week to learn together how to cut out the waste and deliver a better product at a lower cost. To customers, products and service matter.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Many organizations suffer from a tragic pattern: The chief executive officer launches a new change program with great fanfare and intentions, only to shelve it a few years later with little to show for great expenditures of time and consulting fees. How can you break this cycle?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

“The shift from a country-centric corporation to one that is more global in its outlook will have a radical impact on leadership development,” says Professor of Management Practice William George, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic. How to Brand a Next-Generation Product.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 19, 2011

In a recently released study from IBM , based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1,500 chief executive officers worldwide, “creativity” has been identified as the single most important leadership competency for enterprises seeking a path through this complexity.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

The great thing about operating a small business is that you are inherently more agile than your larger competitors. What about product-based businesses? If, for example, you’re an entrepreneur who has developed a software product that you are selling to businesses, are you offering it via cloud? About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

If you’re a chief executive officer, your job is to execute. But what does it mean, in terms of daily tasks, to be the company’s top “executer?” ” After all, CEOs don’t actually build factories or sell products. It’s written right into your title. This is poppycock.

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