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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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 296

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

On the one hand, protectionism, populism, and wide-spread distrust of business’s role in politics is threatening international corporations (think Carrier, Boeing, and tariffs/taxes for off-shoring and outsourcing). Similarly, whether the Brexit vote last June will help or hurt businesses in the UK and EU is still uncertain.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The general counsel, not the senior partner in the law firm, is now often the go-to counselor for the CEO and the board on law, ethics, public policy, corporate citizenship, and country and geopolitical risk. . — and increasingly in Europe and Asia — are not mentioned: 1.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Trends Crisis Definition 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 14, 2019

His FrankSonnenbergOnline was named one of the “Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs” and his thoughts are among the most frequently quoted on the Internet. He’s operated in the real world of real work (he was formerly a marketing executive at Ernst & Young) and still consults for many companies in multiple industries.

Advice 77

Advice Short-term Follow-up Ethics 77

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

How did the nation with the workforce that won the war end up with a workforce outsourced to India? And that is a failure of American leadership on an epic scale; a failure of government to work with manufacturing instead of against it; a failure of business to adapt to the global marketplace instead of running from it.

Company 50

Company Organizational Behavior Human Resources Ethics 50