Leading Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

I’ve observed companies panicking and doing anything they can to manage short-term cash—and destroying hard-earned relationships at lightning speed. They are letting short-term financial objectives become the North Star in an effort to keep the lights on. If you don’t have a forever promise, you’re sunk.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2014

There is a new definition of leadership in our lexicon. Yet rather than being weeded out, they seem to survive and thrive in an institutional ethic that values by choosing short term greed over longer-term value and culture. Perhaps it’s because we still cling to the great man theory of leadership. By Grant Wattie.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

HP has not had a stellar track record when it comes to leadership and their choices have often gotten them into sticky situations. The HP Board of Directors has to be focused on prevention and good business practices to build a long term strategy. So let’s look. HP Has a Poor Track Record in Past CEO Selection.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

However, this short-term gain can lead to long-term brand damage, as witnessed in my Surefoot experience. A Dining Experience: Struggling to Balance Two Worlds Another incident that highlights this struggle involved an upscale hotel restaurant trying to merge high-end dining with a more casual grill experience.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Being servant leaders as Chartered Managers In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI, president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year and assures that CMI Sri Lanka will continue to facilitate the processes of up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling managers. Read it here.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. One of the things we preach in the book is for leaders to be more “long-term greedy.”

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

Because for as long as 17 years Dagenais had harbored a vision of a company where employees felt like contributors and where customers – “guests” in the new Riverside parlance – not only felt like coming back but told their friends that they wanted to go back. Restate the company mission to be the “best in town for guest service”.

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HR Digest

MAY 22, 2019

Heavy drinking due to long hours and stress makes the alcoholic prone to a slate of physical, mental and social problems. There are specific professions that are more likely to contain problem drinkers than others, and common factors include high-stress environments, long or inconsistent hours and underlying psychological or physical pain.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2019

The toolkit provides the roadmap for leaders who can harness the power of long-term thinking in a short-term world; the skill needed to create a modern day legacy. For example, by encouraging its employees to let the brand’s beliefs inspire their behaviors, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company sparks a positive feedback loop.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 23, 2013

A lot of what passes for leadership development in companies can be a waste of time. It sends you to “leadership camp,” which can last anywhere from a day to a couple of weeks. If the company is particularly rigorous about gathering information, you may be asked to critique the hotel and the food. Life is good.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

Have you ever realized the costs of: having an inefficient leadership team? not aligning middle managers with vision at the top? long unnecessary meetings and deadlocked debates? poor communications and expectations management? taking “short-term” view of business? effective and right management can go a long way.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I wanted to know what helps us get on people’s minds and stay there long term. Here are three, along with solutions on how to address them: Issue #1: We don’t help others form memories that endure long-term As a result, at decision time, things don’t go in our favor simply because we are not part of a consideration set.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The tool kit provides the roadmap for leaders who can harness the power of long-term thinking in a short-term world; the skill needed to create a modern day legacy. For example, by encouraging its employees to let the brand’s beliefs inspire their behaviors, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company sparks a positive feedback loop.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The tool kit provides the roadmap for leaders who can harness the power of long-term thinking in a short-term world; the skill needed to create a modern day legacy. For example, by encouraging its employees to let the brand’s beliefs inspire their behaviors, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company sparks a positive feedback loop.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

  It's the cleanest, most open, quietest airport I've been in in a long time.    From there, I caught a taxi to the train station, hopped on TrenItalia to Florence and was at my hotel maybe an hour later than originally planned.   Makes me wonder what the leadership opportunities are there. . 

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Even More Leadership Lessons from the Washington Redskins | Main | The Power of Courtesy » November 05, 2010 The Heroes of Walter Reed Yesterday, on a rainy afternoon in Washington, DC, I had the privilege of doing something that I wish every American had the opportunity to experience. 

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 18, 2011

After an affair with an IMF staffer back in 2008, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted as saying: “The personal behaviour of the managing director sets an important tone for the institution. Um… ok… I’d love to see the core organizational values for the IMF that someone make it ok to assault women in hotel rooms. Oh bullsh*t.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. If you’ve been waiting for them to enter the market and start to establish their customers before you do anything, you’ve now waited too long. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. Juliano Howard T.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 17, 2015

And hundreds of employees poured into the giant hotel ballroom. Overflowing emotion necessitated several long pauses to regain composure. As the CEO completed the final sentence there was a long silence. Then, they leapt to their feet for an awkwardly long standing ovation. the sound tech’s voice boomed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Much has been written about long-term expatriate assignments , but for many of us, a more common “assignment” is the short-term business trip — that four-day jaunt to Dubai or the there-and-back trip to Buenos Aires. Managing Across Cultures. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

A recent study by three professors at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management is part of a growing mountain of evidence of the superior and more lasting performance of companies where the founder still plays a significant role as CEO, chairman, board member, or owner or adviser. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? These assets are typically overlooked, undervalued, and under-managed.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 17, 2016

This morning I was in a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas (where I’m attending a wedding later this evening) and as I was flipping through the channels on the TV looking for a news update I stumbled across something else that couldn’t escape my attention. Want to change the world? There’s nothing to it. It was Willy Wonka.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

I was running a leadership offsite at The Allison Inn and Spa in Oregon — one of my favorite hotels — and the food, as always, was exquisite. There's a term in psychology for this disappointment: The Hedonic Treadmill. I look forward to dinner well before I arrive at the hotel. Need to micro-manage less?

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2019

Krueger mentions that employer-provided pain management intervention could help reverse this inverse relationship, but that’s not all that employers can do in fact, they can do much more. Use a pharmacy manager to oversee the pharmacy network. university educations are paid for both employees and their children). The results?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. When making a purchase decision, customers use an average of six different channels, which are often managed by different parts of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In my consulting work with large, multinational companies, I see a pervasive anxiety among managers who have trouble finding people for skilled positions, no matter what industry or region. Development and learning don't have to consist of costly processes with long lead times. For instance, at one U.S.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Businesses that are organized and managed around a noble, healing purpose are not only great places to work, they’re also beloved by customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders. This included actions like managers asking employees daily for suggestions for making their lives better. It took her a week to tell us about it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

For Richard, a respected academic and world authority on leadership, vacations are also serious stuff. You and Your Team. Make the most of your time away. He and his wife consciously vary the way they spend their time off. Once or twice a year they take “learning holidays” to places they don’t know well. Plan properly.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

Even if your corporate culture leaves a lot to be desired, managers can create a localized environment that inspires your employees to achieve peak performance. And please realize: A Players don’t just come from management ranks; there are outstanding players on your front line that deserve a chance to help you. Even managers.

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ExactHire - Leadership

DECEMBER 1, 2016

While we do meet as a team on a monthly basis, the annual meeting enables us to retreat off site and do a deep dive into the state of the organization, our long-term product road map and our business strategy. Hotel Tango was a great, unconventional space – don’t mind Christa’s angelic illumination!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? Not competitive threats.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Value flexibility.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

You’ll know as you read this interview – the wealth of leadership wisdom, strategic foresight, and transformative insights shared by Norm Smallwood—a luminary shaping tomorrow’s leadership landscape–will completely reframe how you look at the modern workplace! The ability to manage change determines the fate of any organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

That’s not just a hunch — among public companies since 1990, returns to shareholders were three times greater at firms where the founder is still part of the management team. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. We argued that the quality of our chicken would be remembered long after the wait was forgotten.”

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