N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Leaders can be extremely strong in any of the areas above, but if they are not leading effectively or productively, if they are not meeting performance expectations, then they have work to do. Want to find out?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

If a manager finds a way to say yes to every request, idea, or action posted to them, it will also have a very negative affect on their staff who wonder what far flung idea or action is going to be required today. Trust, in turn, is the product of two components: Integrity and Ability. You ask how people feel when they get told no.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. The CEO is made stronger with a good C-suite team. Therefore, our loyalty to the company rises, and we are more productive. A host of people make the CEO look good. She knew what everyone was thinking and was the glue to the cases.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. But the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Crisis management is the ultimate stress test for the CEO and other top leaders of companies. The mantra for all leaders in crisis management must be: “It is our problem the moment we hear about it. On these important safety issues, the CEO should also keep the board informed.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. How sad is this? Their responsibility is to be correct; not politically correct. Are these extreme statements? Are these extreme statements?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

However it is my opinion that diversity is not being addressed properly, and as a result has become one of the leading killers of corporate productivity. When you force the diversity agenda for the wrong reasons (no matter how well intended) productivity suffers and resentment grows.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Design and re-engineering of products-services. Each product-service is budgeted. Assets are adequately valued and managed. CEO accepts and ideas and philosophies with employees and stakeholders. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Study and refine your own core business characteristics.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

When organizations first become aware of a major problem with a product or service, one with important consequences for consumers or the environment, they face a dilemma. Ethically, the choice is simple. If management is aware of a problem, its moral duty is to communicate openly and honestly to all stakeholders involved.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] bosxs Thanks for this [link] CEO Success…It’s not Random | N2 Growth Blog [.] see “Leadership DNA“) [.] Mark Oakes Good post, Mike!

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

link] ATIG Mike, authenticity and transparency for better and ETHICAL business. Too often, people are either promoted or end up in the top position without the training, experience, and character that allow for effective management and strategic vision. – I'd be interested in your thoughts. Thanks for the suggestion Dan.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

Or to put it another way: every CEO says that the buck stops with them. And if it should stop with the CEO, just when should it stop? Weldon is CEO of Johnson&Johnson (J&J), which firmly established itself as one of the world's most trusted companies following the famous Tylenol scare in the 1980s. Until lately, that is.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 7, 2016

It’s called the Golden Hour Strategy because the intention is to launch all five steps within the first 60-120 minutes of a crisis incident, whatever the crisis happens to be. Crisis response is a management responsibility driven by a simple, sensible, constructive, positive, and clearly achievable strategy.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. We cannot fool them.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. We make a good product… that should be enough. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Examples: This company reflects the character of its CEO. Got to send the kid to college (or some other personal reason). Interest rates are too high.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

One-third of the Gross National Product is sent each year toward cleaning up mistakes, rework, make-goods, corrective action and correcting defects. 70% of corporate CEOs think that business is too much focused on the short-term. The average person spends 150 hours each year in looking for misplaced information and files. 50% do not.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Call it a hiccup or a long-term slump; every brand faces a crisis. Whether self-created or a swipe from the blind side, crisis recovery can be elusive. The J&J folks set the crisis management standard for all others to follow—to be prepared for that inevitable day when disaster WILL strike.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

This is the distinction between what he terms the 'Character Ethic' vs the 'Personality Ethic' The prior depends on deep changes within each of us including our view of creating a legacy for future generations. Another key distinction is one highlighted by Stephen Covey in his 7-Habits books.

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