Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 8, 2022

How can I manage the core business while innovating for the future? In an interview with Polman, he told us - don't tell me we can't do both, Unilever serves 2 billion consumers a day, we must find a way to foster sustainable living through business. How do I balance work and life? How can I take care of myself while supporting others?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 28, 2022

How can I manage the core business while innovating for the future? In an interview with Polman, he told us - don't tell me we can't do both, Unilever serves 2 billion consumers a day, we must find a way to foster sustainable living through business. How do I balance work and life? How can I take care of myself while supporting others?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Welcome to the Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. What can we do about something we can’t control?”

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s my initial body chemistry starting to rev up and it’s going to take a little while to get my car into 5th gear. So I let the bad thoughts wash over me and say “It’s not going to last.” — and guess what — it goes away as fast as it came. I usually make a list of things I need to get done the night before. Mondays suck.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

To manage the overload some ignore it, hoping it will go away. Get rid of the constant pressure to read and reply by setting regular daily times to check emails. Choose whatever schedule works for you and let it be known that those times are when you check and respond to email. Most of us have too much email. Make a list.

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Jason Womack

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The first, she invited me to attend a 2-day workshop (remember, this was 1997!) that some guy named David Allen was presenting titled, "Managing Action and Projects." The second, she offered to coach me in organization and time management. Here, let me tell you about what happened with Martha met me in my classroom on a weekend.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Too many workplaces create rule-driven cultures that may keep management feeling like things are under control, but they squelch creativity and reinforce the ordinary. And then you enter the black hole–the space between applying for a job and being hired (or getting an impersonal notification that the job’s been filled).

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 5, 2016

John, figured that the most efficient way to get his answer and know that it was right was to text all of his direct reports the question at the same time and ask for the information he needed. Each of his employees wanted to please John, so they dropped what they were doing and scrambled to get the answers. Err, nope.” What’s that?”

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 17, 2012

Have you ever worked in a place where you didn’t feel confidence in whether or not you were performing your job properly and never felt comfortable enough to ask your manager for his/her opinion? What if you are the manager and don’t feel too comfortable approaching employees to talk about things you’d like them to change?

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 17, 2012

Have you ever worked in a place where you didn’t feel confidence in whether or not you were performing your job properly and never felt comfortable enough to ask your manager for his/her opinion? What if you are the manager and don’t feel too comfortable approaching employees to talk about things you’d like them to change?

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. Five Trends . Our task is complicated by five additional trends: 1.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 15, 2015

Having a great year is not a matter of doing one thing right - or even making one thing better - it’s a matter or making everything better, so that you can get to GREAT or BEST in whatever you do. Get rid of one time-waster. Get your (sales) pipeline full. Get up earlier. Get rid of one time-waster.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the often misunderstood value of influence… Let me be clear…when I mention influence I’m not referring to manipulation, elaborate schemes, or other forms of skulduggery. In fact, your influence quotient will be a much greater determinant of your ultimate success than your “Intelligence Quotient” could ever be.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2020

can be a great way to get the ball rolling. Such conversations can get everyone talking and ease up the atmosphere. Meetings done via the video conference mode are the closest you can get to mimicking the familiar and intimate environment of in-person meetings. The MFH (meeting from home) trend had to follow WFH.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Just let your players know what you think is right without referring to your past. Not only does it get old for others when we do this - it reminds them that we are old, and that's never a good thing. Just let it go. You are getting older. Here goes: For Joe Torre: 1. Never say, "When I was with the Yankees we."

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 4, 2011

And, as the old saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting to get different results. Add it all up, and you have a low-profit business that takes a lot of management effort. Resolution 2 focuses on improving your cash flow. by Alexander Hiam, author of Business Innovations for Dummies.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

JULY 15, 2010

Stories about his temper, his conniving ways, his firing, rehiring of managers, particularly Billy Martin, all these making him a colorful character and a questionable leader. 2 Forgive yourself. Get over it. George was ‘humiliated&# in the media, but he never let it stop him. And get the best people you can afford.

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The Recovering Engineer

APRIL 8, 2010

If you imagine at your emotional container like a bottle filled with a carbonated beverage and sealed with a stopper, you can develop a simple model for understanding what happens when you get angry so that you can attack the anger at it’s source rather than trying to control it after it happens. It may come quickly.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 27, 2010

In other words, youll never get rid of it. Let me explain. Because if you had to concentrate and try hard to do everything in your life, you wouldnt get anything done. Its biology - how the brain works - and you cant get around it. But if you try hard and get it right 10% of the time early on, thats good progress.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 14, 2011

You don’t have to abandon the selling skills you already know – Unlock The Game gives you a new approach and new tools to help you let go of old behaviors that bring you negative results. That’s the core reason many of us get that knot in our stomach when we start dialing a cold call. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 7, 2011

As I see it, the challenge with leading is that most of us know what we should be doing… it’s just that the day-to-day firefighting gets in our way. Forget “don’t let them see u sweat&#. To get consistency of performance you have to clearly define your values. Monday was a blissful day for me.

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Leadership Politics Learning-by-Doing Uncertainty 39

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Using each of these functions effectively is critical if one wants to manage information overload ̶ simply using your brain for crossing items off your to-do list is poor use of a very sophisticated machine. At the core of managing information overload is the ability to know which function to use, and how and when to use it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

In our work with leaders we’ve found that managing successful transformational change has a lot to do with managing fear. So how do you manage deep resistance to big change in high stakes situations? Roosevelt made bold decisions and managed the fear of a nation in crisis. Box 2: Selectively forgetting the past.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

” Of course, your first step as a manager should be to avoid hiring toxic people in the first place , but once they’re on your team, it can be hard to get rid of them. “A manager can use this information to coach the person, or suggest resources to help address the root of the problem.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When you take your first leadership role, or find yourself at the helm of a new team, first impressions are essential to get right. I would call them “rookie mistakes,” but honestly, these are mistakes that many managers make – even seasoned ones. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing People. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Perhaps — but you can't just get rid of them. In fact, unless you learn to get the best out of your creative employees, you will sooner or later end up filing for bankruptcy. Conversely, if you just hire and promote people who are friendly and easy to manage, your firm will be mediocre at best.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. When times are good, not-so-great leaders can get by.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

There are three things that all working parents have in common: (1) a lack of time; (2) a feeling that we should be spending more time — at work, with our kids, at the gym, or engaged in any number of important activities that get squeezed when we have too much to do; and (3) an uneasy, guilty, powerless, nagging feeling about all of it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

You got upset with someone, but didn’t let them know why. Though it requires a commitment to self-development and a willingness to get out of your comfort zone. When was the last time you did any of the following at work? You didn’t share your honest view on a topic, even when asked. It comes off as snarky. Recognize the behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

It’s one of a set of ratios called “leverage ratios” that “let you see how —and how extensively—a company uses debt,” he says. Don’t let the word “equity” throw you off. “You can borrow money from lenders or get money from equity.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Inside, elaborate security procedures, long working hours, and deference to senior managers are all in plain view. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. In such cases, managers often hang on in the hope of an eventual uptake. Killing products isn’t easy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

But if you’re worrying incessantly about the quality of your work, letting on about it can feel risky — and generate even more anxiety. I’ve seen newly promoted managers declare they will stop climbing the career ladder rather than risk falling victim to The Peter Principle – their pay-packages be damned.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

In today’s complex and collaborative workplace, the real challenge is to manage not just your personal workload but the collective one, says Jordan Cohen , a productivity expert and the Senior Director of Organizational Effectiveness, Learning & Development at Weight Watchers. Set the example. Encourage open communication.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The business news continues to be full of stories of large companies getting into trouble in part because of their complexity. JP Morgan has been getting most of the headlines, but other banks are also investigation. Airbus has a complex process for managing the thousands of suppliers who contribute to the manufacturing of the A380.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The world’s unicorns, VC-backed startups worth more than $1 billion, have been getting a lot of press lately. Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. By contrast, there are fewer than 3.5 million stories about Walmart, 2.6

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched. He wasnt a process manager. After a lot of yack-yack, the board chose to leave Sandy in," says Reed. "I The company was too big for that."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. Advancements in automation and software capabilities have made inventory management scalable across more SKUs and product types. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology.

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