Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. Learn to pace and be in the chosen career for the long-run. Planning, tactics, organizational development. Culture and Mission.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I have had many excellent ones in my long career and have in turn mentored hundreds of others. You must establish your own identity, which is a long, exacting process. Long-term success must be earned. The worst bosses do not sustain long careers at the top. Professional enrichment must be life-long.

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 317

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Do something well and commit to long-term excellence. Amplify discussions on community standards and ethics. Exemplifying ethical behavior. Understand conflicting societal goals. Fit your dreams into the necessities and realities of the real world. Find your own niche, do your thing. Helping others. Finding one’s passion.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Long-term investments plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Assets are adequately valued and managed. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Maintains active crisis preparedness and prevention program. Each product-service is budgeted. About the Author.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

As painful as it must have been on many levels, the recall scandal might pay vast long-term benefits by bringing a greater sense of accountability to the managerial ranks (although the fact that GM’s stock price didn’t suffer raises questions about whether the culture will really get the wake-up call).

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Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In a recent article in the journal Environmental Systems and Decisions , a group of risk management experts dissect how Venice responded to the Black Death in the 1400s. This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management.

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Many factors contribute toward long-term success, which is a road filled with ups and downs. We’re too worried about __ (some item in the news… the latest source of gossip). Interest rates are too high. Our lawyer can take care of any problems that arise.

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Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 77

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

The secret to long-term success lies in mapping out the vision and building a body of work that supports it. Ethics and integrity. Have you celebrated organizations that succeeded? I hope that you are and will continue to be distinctive. This essay is to give insights into those who leave legacies. Courage and leadership.

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Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 73

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

It’s also a reminder that leadership, ultimately, is a spiritual practice (whether or not one chooses to put it in religious terms). After having two of my companies colapse around me within a ten year period, I spent a long long time wallowing in it…blaming everything but myself for my circumstances.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Crisis management. Missed Marks.

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Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

Call it a hiccup or a long-term slump; every brand faces a crisis. Whether self-created or a swipe from the blind side, crisis recovery can be elusive. The J&J folks set the crisis management standard for all others to follow—to be prepared for that inevitable day when disaster WILL strike. Leadership.

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Brand CEO Long-term Crisis 140

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. I have long been an opponent to term limits, believing that "we the people" are smart enough to figure out who should serve. Now is the time for term limits.

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