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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

By contrast, the IT and engineering sectors were far more accessible to people from working-class backgrounds. These CEOs had transitioned through the classes as a result of their educational performance and were highly present in sectors like technology, engineering, health, and education.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Yet we rely equally on social infrastructure.

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Your Leadership Mission Should Fit on a T-Shirt!

Marshall Goldsmith

Today, most people who call themselves executive coaches are coaches in the area of leadership behavior. Not long ago, a pharmaceutical company called me up, and said, “We want you to coach Dr. X.” They said, “He’s not updated on recent medical technology.” I replied, “Interesting possibility. What’s his problem?”

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When Leadership Coaching Works (And When It Doesn't)

Marshall Goldsmith

Q: When does leadership coaching work? When will coaching aimed at changing leadership behavior be most effective? One pharmaceutical company called and asked me to coach "Dr. They replied, "He is not updated on recent medical technology." It won't turn bad doctors into good doctors or bad engineers into good engineers.

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Don’t Coach Integrity Violations – Fire Them!

Marshall Goldsmith

Almost all of the people I know who call themselves executive coaches are coaches in the area of leadership behavior. For example, a pharmaceutical company called me recently. He’s not updated on recent medical technology,” was the answer. It would be crazy for me to take these assignments! I said, “What’s his problem?”

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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

Here is the rub and the reason why adopting this principle is so critical: in our experience, the priority initiatives turn out to be on new product, service, customer, and technology initiatives accompanied by an assumption that the organization has the capabilities to execute them. Engineered to Win. That is the good news.

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No Jab, No Job: Major companies take a hard line on mandated vaccinations

HR Digest

Cardinal Health: The global pharmaceutical distributor and medical products supplier sent a memo to U.S. Google: The search engine giant announced at the end of July that all employees would need to be vaccinated to work from its campus. Pfizer: The pharmaceutical giant’s U.S. 1 or take regular Covid tests. 25 from September.

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