Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. The finance department is your business foundation so you need it to be one that you can trust. The research suggests that sales are highest when the team is highly coachable and under transformational leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 14, 2013

The problem is that it takes time and energy to really think through the implications of a set of goals and facilitate a thoughtful process to vet them. Do the goals feel motivating and inspiring? business communication Guest Posts leadership Recent Posts goals problems teamwork' Instead they were created in a relative vacuum.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

“Most of us lose the motivation to do intelligent experiments because of our schooling, rote jobs, bosses who set the goals, etc.” Most of us lose the motivation to do intelligent experiments because of our schooling, rote jobs, bosses who set the goals, etc. I reached out to discuss his work. ” -Steven K. Gold, M.D.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

It is also the only company in the finance industry to have bucked the trend of bringing gender parity in the boardroom. In a truly remarkable interview with Monique Herena, we talk about American Express’s The Ambition Project , leadership resilience, and what we can do to help women propel into leadership roles.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Bottom line…check your motivations. Lastly, I’ll leave you with this reminder – leadership is not about how many emails, memos and transmittals are sent under your signature – it’s about relationships, service, and engagement. link] mikemyatt Well said Tom – people are the name of the game when it comes to leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Energy-building. This process worked well for certain committees – such as finance committee, which we still have, but it didn’t seem to work at well for others, such as the garden committee or the usher committee. They charge the teams with carrying out a specific mission or an assigned task. And, it’s a great concept.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 3, 2018

Pick goals you are passionate enough about to put the energy and discipline in it to achieve success. Do you TRULY want to do better with your finances? Your degree of motivation will likely determine how committed to achieving the goal you remain. Do you REALLY want to lose weight? And, please celebrate.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 3, 2018

Pick goals you are passionate enough about to put the energy and discipline in it to achieve success. Do you TRULY want to do better with your finances? Your degree of motivation will likely determine how committed to achieving the goal you remain. Do you REALLY want to lose weight? And, please celebrate.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Leadership success is largely dependent upon the leader's ability to think through situations and arrive at root causes. Therefore, put enough energy into step 1), and you're well on your way to accomplishing step 2). Are you expending resources and energy fighting symptoms that only appear to be causes?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Andrea Jung should infuse some energy into the board which has been under fire for backdating company stock options. Creative Success Story of Andrea Wachner I want to share a motivational story I read on Reuters. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996.Â

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 3, 2013

Motivated – Pick goals you are passionate enough about to put the energy and discipline in it to achieve success. Do you TRULY want to do better with your finances? Your degree of motivation will likely determine how committed to achieving the goal you remain. Do you REALLY want to lose weight?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The book will expose you to the principles of relational leadership and show you how the principles when applied in tandem, can produce substantial results. People are the core of this leadership style. You will learn how to put the attributes in play for yourself in your own leadership situation.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Make them realistic and achievable yet ambitious enough to stay motivated. It’s how you achieve those goals that matters most in terms of time, expense and energy. Authentic Leadership I was recently at the Pa. Women Leadership and Mad Men Some revolutions are bloody, and some are flash-in-the-pan moments.

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Leading Blog

JULY 3, 2023

When leadership decides on a change — a new app, or a new process to help customers — everyone wants to get moving so that they can realize the anticipated results as soon as possible. Connecting the goal with benefits for each person is an important motivator. Irrevocable decisions will be made. There will be no going back.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. It only makes your current game better.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It drives us, motivates us, and dictates our behavior. It teases us into wasting our time and energies toward its attainment, when all along It is not our highest aspiration, though we may think it is. Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free book!) It might freeze that way!" It's is important to us.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Not wide-eyed optimism, an unthinking faith in the inevitability of success, but what the leadership scholar and civic reformer John Gardner famously called “tough-minded optimism,” a blend of original ideas, deep convictions, and resilience in the face of change. Are you as consistent as you are creative?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I earned my MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2000, and since 2007 I’ve been an Instructor and an internal coach back at the GSB, helping hundreds of students develop their leadership and interpersonal skills. Practical leadership and management skills. Practical leadership and management skills.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. And on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. When we asked our fellows, here are the reasons they shared with us: The opportunity to explore something new and find new paths to leadership. At over $140 billion, the U.S.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. How do you think it was possible and what were the steps you took as a CHRO to motivate employees to work as a team and achieve it? What is the number one leadership competency required in today’s fast-paced, unpredictable world? The HR Digest: C.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Such executives base their efforts to build team strength on the answers to two fundamental questions: Where do I need to spend my time and focus my energies? At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Patience seems to run counter to what motivates promoters! Perhaps this is an issue of confidence.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

” With women apparently expending more energy to achieve the same result, the longer runway gives them fewer years to have an impact in the top job. ” Backgrounds in STEM, business, finance, or economics are a launchpad for female CEOs. Women are driven by achieving business results and making a positive impact.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy. We can count on them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

But if leadership allows itself to get distracted, the base business can quickly suffer. In many cases, integration efforts can take up so much time, energy, and attention that managers and employees are distracted from their day-to-day roles. It’s easy to get caught up in the logistics of trying to integrate two organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I don’t care in the slightest about winning arguments, whether someone is right or wrong, or whether logic is sound or flawed, but I do care about motivation and intent. If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Why do companies get caught up in illegal behavior, harassment, and toxic leadership? rogue traders in finance). For example, researchers have documented how an energy company undermined masculinity contest norms on oil rigs through a safety intervention. Organizations can leverage other core goals to motivate reform.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

.” Think about what you like doing… Spend a few days mapping your energy and engagement levels at work every few hours. People often begin to notice obvious peaks and valleys to their days—times when they feel productive and engaged in their work, and other times when their attitude sours and their energy wanes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. Each of these teams went through the same team development program as my senior leadership team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You could, Drexler and Noble write, take advantage of government subsidies to invest in affordable housing or renewable energy (something that, as they note, people have been doing for decades). Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Whatever the situation, it is important to understand that the root cause of political activities are often scarce resources (including time pressures), social and structural inequalities, and individual personal motivations. Executives can view political moves as dirty and will try to distance themselves from those activities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. In the last six years the federal government funded 56 cluster initiatives in areas from green energy to defense contracting.

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