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Who is the 21st Century CEO?

In the CEO Afterlife

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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Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

Sonnenberg discusses at length, nine critical success factors that need to be built into the organization: Passion that develops commitment to the organization’s mission, values, and goals. An innovative and creative environment and mindset that reinvents itself every day. If you treat people right, they will treat you right.

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A System For Rapid Realignment

Tim Milburn

Our prescription for rapid realignment has the following steps: Align the leadership team. Align the Leadership Team. The first step toward rapid realignment is to get leadership team members aligned with The Main Thing of the enterprise and its strategy. Create an online alignment portal. Track progress and provide feedback.

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Talking About Ethics Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

My aim was to take a new approach to values-driven leadership development, one that was a stark departure from the way companies and educators had been teaching business ethics. .” He was raising an issue I had struggled with when developing the program, which is called Giving Voice to Values.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. Operations in a Connected World.

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5 Early Warning Signals for a BPI Project

Strategy Driven

Many articles have been written about what makes process improvement projects fail and usually they list critical success factors. In the Chartering and Staffing phase of the BPI project there are many critical success factors (It is the beginning of the project! Uncommitted leadership.

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Marissa Mayer Is No Fool

Harvard Business Review

Why would Mayer minimize what she had experienced as a critical success factor? In fairness, critics such as Virgin's Richard Branson are not wrong when they assert the cultural issues here are arguably as much a matter of trust than facilitating collaboration.