Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now I am researching the first section of my new book “Dipping in the WELL: Women Executive Leadership Learning”. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Now think about the women close to you.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. How did we become such nincompoops? Will it ever stop?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Companies with a healthy culture gain a positive reputation, not only among employees, but also with customers and the market. You develop a first-class organization by winning hearts and minds. Many leaders are uncomfortable with the emotional side of leadership, but without that connection, their organization will not thrive.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 10, 2010

» June 10, 2010 Leadership Lessons from the World Cup Whether one is a sports fan or not, it would be hard to avoid the hype surrounding the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, which begins today. Just what is all the fuss about? It's called "The Beautiful Game," and as such, can be quite wonderful. One nations team will win.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 10, 2013

I had just learned about Che Guevara and the Latin American revolutions in history class, and was immediately enthralled. What about the ENTIRE AMERICAN PUBLIC that, thanks to the media, thinks Egypt is a lawless and—to borrow a word from my Development Studies classes—“postrevolutionary state?”

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

Read more from Google Analytics 360 Suite: Rethinking Marketing Measurement from the Ground Up. 3 Ways Marketing Organizations Can Make Data More Actionable. Marketing can look at this data and decide to test a hypothesis: Is that color product selling best because it’s in an image featured on the homepage?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

While discussing a Harvard colleague's world-class work on how big data and analytics transform public sector effectiveness, I couldn't help but ask: How many public school systems had reached out to him for advice? Are analytics internally marketed and perceived as diagnostics for helping people and processes perform "better"?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

That fairly captures a dominant innovation sensation at world-class innovators. But innovation leadership is less about clichés celebrating creativity, compelling visions or getting the best out of people than successfully helping innovators beat what hurts. Overcoming resistance is not the same as pushing through pain.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Resisting Corruption in Corrupt Environments.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Consider, first, rampant excesses in a most unlikely part of the financial scene — the market for microcredits to the world's poorest people. In a memorable, hour-long PBS interview with Charlie Rose during the 2008 crisis, Buffet gave a master class in how the world got into its economic mess and what we can learn from it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

One notable critic, Warren Bennis, a renowned leadership scholar from the University of Southern California, states that business schools have “an overemphasis on the rigor and an underemphasis on relevance.” ” While externships offer value, both faculty and executives resist the practice for a number of reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. Our data show that MBA students are flocking to classes to learn the art of social entrepreneurship. Their ideas for products, services and management practices may not survive market tests. Some are recent graduates.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

trade policy, opening both the American and foreign markets to an unprecedented degree. efforts to launch a new global round foundered in 1982 in the face of European resistance. Trade Representative Bill Brock thought that launching a negotiation with Canada might soften European resistance to a new GATT round by showing that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

But the best CEOs resist the desire to chase the next shiny object. Disentangle yourself from the Byzantine bickering of the professional managerial class. The thinkers back at headquarters get about 150 pictures a week, some of which get translated by the marketing staff into new sales initiatives. Then they go back to selling.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable. That was the challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

And here's one last piece of research I can't resist citing in a discussion of why leaders are so likely to double-down on bad bets. They know they must be disciplined in thinking about what products not to pursue and bring to market, what geographies not to enter, what activities not to focus on at the moment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Should Shinseki (and President Obama) have resisted calls for his ouster, so that he could stay to address the problems? Generations of Western middle class parents taught their children to clean up their own messes. Crisis management Leadership transitions Military'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”. Conglomerates resist this approach, combining more diverse businesses and allowing them separate decision-making structures. The article, by J.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When people actually believe that balance benefits their business, resistance to targets diminishes. Whether it’s about leadership and talent, or customers and innovation, identifying and communicating an inclusive aspirational vision – to both men and women – is key. For example, “40% minimum of both genders, at all levels.’”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Here are the seven C-level skills and traits companies prize most: Leadership. The skills cited as most indispensable for C-level executives—not just CEOs—are those that jointly constitute leadership. Ethical leadership was also mentioned. Ethical leadership was also mentioned. Strategic thinking and execution.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

When I showed them to managers in my classes, their opinions ranged from “he is unassuming and charismatic” to “he is an anxious egomaniac.” ” No matter how good a leader’s intention, how strong their track record, how smooth their style, leadership will still generate ambivalence.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Consider taking online classes or joining volunteer professional activities. “If If your job isn’t giving you what you need to develop,” says Clark, “that may be your opportunity to take a leadership role in a professional organization to make contacts and build skills that help you further down the line.”. Take the high road.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Getting people to consistently and reliably act upon real data is a real leadership challenge. Lindbergh and Miller were consistently startled — and frustrated — by the resistance to even their most compelling insights. Superior knowledge doesn’t guarantee greater effectiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

By teaching people how to deal with uncertainty, do you mean taking statistics class, studying decision theory? So he recommends option B, something of a secondary or third-class choice. But if the world is highly unpredictable and unstable, as in the stock market, you have many parameters to estimate and relatively little data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

When Harry was shortlisted for a leadership position, he decided to wear a white dress shirt and gray business suit, sans fun nails or accessories, because he wanted to resist transphobia and fit into the hiring committee’s assumptions about “who is a leader, who is responsible, what that type of person looks like.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Zena and Madhav challenged them to put on the event in just two weeks, by the end of the class, which was far sooner than the SFO staff thought possible. For instance, the marketing person was on the programming team, and the woman who would be responsible for programming at the new SFO venue joined the experience team.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 31, 2011

Resist the urge always, especially when you want to build commitment and ownership. Note: A version of this post will be available to readers of my new book, From Bud to Boss – Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership as additional content in the Bud to Boss Community. Don’t add your ideas.

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