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Stop Letting the Latest Trend Dictate How You Run Your Company

Leading Blog

Then prepare to be surprised: Your CEO, CFO, and COO may very well give different answers. Those in leadership positions set the tone for the entire organization, so everyone must openly show their commitment to wanting feedback from any employee and also giving their own. I call this a culture of feedback.

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Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Skip Prichard

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. As an executive coach and leadership consultant, I’ve worked with leaders around the world. It is so essential to their leadership, but it is also counterintuitive sometimes. The COO walked in.

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36 Lessons for Business & Life from Trillion Dollar Coach Bill Campbell

Leading Blog

He coached many others including Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, Dan Rosensweig, CEO of Chegg, John Hennessy, former President of Stanford University, and Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. When things are going bad, teams are looking for even more loyalty, commitment, and decisiveness from their leaders. Move on as fast as possible.

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Leadership Teams: Why Two Are Better Than One

Harvard Business Review

The concept of "two-in-a-box" leadership has been examined extensively over the past few years. One of the most thorough discussions is in the HBR article The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas. We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company.

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Why New Leaders Should Be Wary of Quick Wins

Harvard Business Review

As a consequence, quick wins may soon be undone, or they may beget new leadership problems. The result: You will have more control over the pace of your transition to new leadership responsibilities and the company’s transition to its new era. Subordinates will follow a leader they can count on.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Some are branded currencies , like the points in a loyalty program or the cash in an iTunes account or Starbucks mobile app. To achieve loyalty, most companies focus on managing their customer relationships. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot. Relational capital.

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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business Review

If, for instance, you want to assess the candidate’s leadership skills, talk to former subordinates; for questions about the candidate’s strategic orientation, talk to former bosses. If you display skepticism toward the candidate or hesitate, the reference will likely clam up out of loyalty, she says. ” Set the tone.