Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

They all: · Made fact-based decisions · Built great teams · Made ethics a part of the culture · Engaged listeners · Evaluate constantly · Embraced change · Inspired Make fact-based decisions At the start of each morning, Craig Ryden—the CEO of Yankee Candle—would look at the sales from the previous day in great detail.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

But it’s not just about the immediate impact on day-to-day operations. Attendance and punctuality also speak to an employee’s overall work ethic and dedication to their job. Displays a strong work ethic by always showing up to work on time. Balances short-term and long-term solutions when solving problems.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 28, 2016

My willingness to engage with others about property values, the local housing market, and the value I bring to helping someone buy or sell a house is what motivates me to do this activity, when I would rather be sitting in the air-conditioning somewhere with a large iced tea, watching the clouds float by overhead. IN SHORT ….

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Importantly, “That perspective enables us to rein in our smartness and harness it to serve a larger purpose in an ethical and appropriate manner.” Some focus on short-term goals and on deepening their depth of knowledge in their domain of interest. It’s about “transcending it and gaining a broader perspective.”

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. Culture Spark. Organizational culture is often seen as an elusive topic.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Poor Communication Skills : Show me a leader with poor communication skills and I’ll show you someone who will be short-lived in their position. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

.” Paul Polman, the CEO of Unilever, announced that shareholders should sell if they did not agree with his decision to stop giving quarterly results and focus on the long-term creation of value that is “equitable, shared and sustainable.” Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. .”

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Operations are sound, professional and productive. You have and regularly update-benchmark a strategy for the future, shared company Vision, ethics, Big Picture thinking and “walk the talk.” In short, never stop! Philosophy.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. many of us face an endless stream of ethical dilemmas at work. We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. Wells Fargo. Volkswagen.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

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Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. The company recently took a hit on the stock market. One of its major suppliers is under an ethics investigation resulting in significant delays. You and Your Team Series. Stu Heinecke. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. With over 1.3

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times. How sad is this?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The company’s more than 80 operating subsidiaries have complete independence and minimal oversight from headquarters, which requires little else besides regular financial statements and the return of excess cash that is not needed to sustain and grow the business. A long-term investment horizon improves operating performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. A firm’s cultural capital is a type of asset that impacts what a firm produces and how it operates. naqiewei/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

And although the retail giant's green efforts have done a lot to showcase the company's commitment to sustainability, sometimes Walmart gives its critics some legitimate ammo, like the recent revelations and allegations of corruption in its Mexican operations. But the immediate market reaction here is fascinating. Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Directness.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Don’t be timid.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Should soft measures be part of a CEO’s scorecard?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

He had extensive market knowledge and a stellar track record. Although good at scaling and operating a sales organization, the leader was unable to succeed in a rapidly changing environment that needed experimentation and nimbleness. He tolerated (and even encouraged) ethically questionable sales practices. He ruled by fear.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people. By competing on products, we respond to the market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? There is perhaps one place where this paradigm still exists: the gym.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2018

Who should be involved in decisions regarding business impact, regulatory compliance, technical approach, and even ethical values when companies integrate machine learning into business operations? Do different use cases require different types of explanations?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. treating suppliers as partners).

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 14, 2019

In short, people really like his stuff. 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. Duncan: What’s your advice for people who are tempted to take shortcuts on ethics? That drives me crazy.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. 70% of corporate CEOs think that business is too much focused on the short-term. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters.

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 81

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. 17 percent). What They Claim They Do.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Critical topics include leadership development of executives, mindset changes in the evolution from manager to executive to leader, executive mentoring, insights into how top professionals evolve, plateaus of professional accomplishment, developing a winning work ethic, lifelong learning and the accrual of business wisdom. by Hank Moore.

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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Why do anti-profit beliefs persist in a market society? Our research.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Unfortunately, one can get caught in a trap of being on the short end of the equation. The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. ” Sizing you in terms of immediate benefit to them, they either probe further or move on. These people couch their requests in terms of your benefit.

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