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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. The senior vice president of human resources told her, “ Ginni, if you want the opportunity to be CEO of IBM, don’t try to run for office. When moments of reinvention arrive, innovating the “how” can be overlooked in favor of focusing on the “what.” How do we do that?

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What Not to Do When Business Sours

In the CEO Afterlife

A delay (not cancellation) in capital expenditures of such initiatives as office upgrades or computer systems are examples of a good place to start. In a crisis, whether short or long-term, the most senior people in the organization need to step up and offer innovative solutions to the issues hammering the bottom-line.