Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

How Would You Answer This Question About Your Leadership? How Will Leadership Change in the Cognitive Era? The Ten Behaviors of Strong Personal Leadership by Scott Eblin @EblinGroup. Do You Lead Positive? 2 Self-Leadership Hacks for Positivity by @AlanDUtley. The Best Leadership Books of 2016.

EPS 150

EPS Groupthink Gordon Learning-by-Doing 150

Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 7, 2014

Dave once taught me that effective performance can be seen as a function of the quality of an idea times the employee’s commitment to make it happen (EP = QI x C). When I asked one new Fortune 100 CEO what he had learned about leadership in the past year, he sighed and sadly noted, “My suggestions become orders.

Commitment 138

Commitment EPS Ulrich CEO 138

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s a topic which corporations once routinely ignored, then dismissed, and are only now beginning to discuss: the dearth of multicultural professionals in senior positions. Performance, hard work, and sponsors get top talent recognized and promoted, but “leadership potential” isn’t enough to lever men and women into the executive suite.

EPS 8

EPS Diversity Self-aware Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Unlike mentors, who act as sympathetic sounding boards, sponsors are people in positions of power who work on their protégé’s behalf to clear obstacles, foster connections, assign higher-profile work to ease the move up the ranks, and provide aircover and support in case of stumbles. Be a more active ally.

EPS 13

EPS Diversity Innovation Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

As I explain in my new book, Executive Presence: The Missing Link between Merit and Success , performance, hard work, and sponsors may get top talent recognized and promoted, but “leadership potential” alone isn’t enough to boost even the most qualified men and women into top jobs and prime opportunities.

EPS 8

EPS Hypercompetition Diversity Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Consider management actions such as cutting jobs and investment as a response to currency fluctuations and the resulting accounting impact of those cuts on earnings per share (EPS). However, this outcome depends on the choices of those in a position to allocate economic resources. In other words, it depends on visionary management.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a recent survey , 70% of respondents said that CEOs focus too much on short-term financial results, and nearly 60% said that they don’t focus enough on positive long-term impact. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9