Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business. When organizations go astray ethically, it is usually due to a lack of ethical competence, not bad people.

Ethics 197

Ethics Maturity Analysis Cost-Benefit Analysis 197

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. The business absolutely needs energetic and emotionally mature leaders for it to prosper. Design and re-engineering of products-services. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. A leader’s purpose and job is to give direction and purpose and motivate his people.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership. They assembled numerous contemporary examples of core competence, including NEC's semiconductors, Canon's microelectronics, and Honda's small-engine design. More >>.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). What is their maturity level? Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity. What is their longevity?

Consultative 59

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. Ultimately, boards, CEOs, and investors get the quality of leadership — and HR — that they demand and permit.

Compliance 9

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It's the company's deeply embedded belief system, its prevailing ethics, and the way people within the company interact with each other and with customers. The DNA that has been in HP's bones from the start is all about excellence in hardware engineering. There was no software leader in the company who was allowed to mature and grow.

Software 13

Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 13