Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions?

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Author of two best-selling leadership books.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Recently, my colleagues at the Focus Consulting Group and I surveyed more than 100 asset management firms around the world, testing both for the strength of their cultures and for the effectiveness of their leadership teams. On a seven-point scale, they were asked to respond to 15 well-researched factors that define strong teamwork.

Teamwork 14

Teamwork Industry Management Asset Management 14

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

Consensus 388

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

In leadership writing, one of the most widely sold leadership textbooks ( The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner) concludes that love is “the secret to life” and consider it the “best kept secret” of great leadership. Love is like an operating system.

Organization 8

Organization Power Reference Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Why do companies get caught up in illegal behavior, harassment, and toxic leadership? rogue traders in finance). Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed. Our research identifies an underlying cause: what we call a “masculinity contest culture.” The business case against masculinity contests.

Organization 8

Organization Cooper Bottom-up Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? Just how scarce are matrix-related leadership skills ? Matrix teams depend on trust and teamwork.

Management 15

Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

In one of our very first issues, back in 1996, we did a deep dive into a strange, offbeat, little-known grocery operation based in Austin, Texas. Plenty of companies talk the talk of empowerment, autonomy, and teamwork. He was erratic, like when he got caught talking up the stock in finance-oriented chat rooms.

Long-term 12

Long-term Price Finance Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

In other words, who you are affects how you behave and how you interact with other people, so team members’ personalities operate like the different functions of a single organism. Consider the crew that will one day (soon?) travel to Mars, perhaps working for Elon Musk or one of the government space agencies.

Skills 8

Skills Team Cooper Emotional Intelligence 8