Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2013

Sometimes it works in the short term, but it never works in the long term. An leader with enlightened self-interest will think in terms of the transactional benefits of everything they do. When you have the power usually associated with leadership. it''s easy to begin thinking that you can do anything you want.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. Strong Organizational Culture Netflix and Salesforce showcase the value of a positive and strong organizational culture, aligning employees with the mission and values of the company.

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Organization Agility Ethics Operations 40

Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Before highlighting each of the assets, Dan wrote, “Leadership isn’t about status, position, salary, or title. Dana Theus of InPower Coaching contributed How Long Should You Stay At Your Job? It’s an ethical imperative” Find Linda on Twitter at @leadingincontxt. ” Find Dan on Twitter at @greatleadership.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Guest post from Bernie Swain : Leadership requires all sorts of qualities: judgment, character, confidence, an unshakeable commitment to a work ethic guided by a moral compass. He couldn’t walk, his short-term memory was gone, his speech was severely compromised. “We He would be functional again on some level, but never fully recover.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The simple truth is that many people can feign adequate leadership ability in the short run, but the 8 traits outlined below will seperate the posers from the players 11 times out of 1o… First of all, it is important to realize that just because someone is in a leadership position doesn’t necessarily mean they should be.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The list of leaders who were introverted is long and distinguished. Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist who first popularized the terms, said “There’s no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. This approach allows you to take advantage of other people’s expertise and perspective, yet positions you as the leader. •

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Whenever I hear the term ‘networking’, I think of a slimy used-car salesman in a seersucker suit, white belt, and white shiny shoes. You are then in a prime position to focus in on their needs and deliver a personalized solution. I can only speak for as long as I have been in business – 30 years.

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Licensing Ethics Learning-by-Doing Motivation 207

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. Culture is the fuel that drives and sustains positive engagement.”

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Whenever I hear the term ‘networking’, I think of a slimy used-car salesman in a seersucker suit, white belt, and white shiny shoes. You are then in a prime position to focus in on their needs and deliver a personalized solution. I can only speak for as long as I have been in business – 30 years.

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Licensing Ethics Learning-by-Doing Motivation 170

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. Furthermore, the enduring anchor of an organization is found in its values and ethics, not its mission.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

And, in times of crisis and uncertainty, communication is more important than ever. During this one-on-one meeting, ask your employee to report his or her progress against quantified goals—measuring performance in terms of quantity is important. In my experience, the very best managers are limitless sources of positive energy.

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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. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. So how do you know whether your company is positioned to help you­ — or hurt you — as you encounter gray-area decisions in your work? Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Long-term investments plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Today’s consumers now have the ability to watch and respond to every brand’s move – positive or negative. While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. Juliano Howard T.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A Race to the Bottom If this scenario ever came to pass, the term “work ethic” would be cancelled and parents would stop telling kids to try their best, because fair-to-average would be good enough for them. Here’s why: Who would you call in a crisis or turn to in a medical emergency? Stay in shape? Why bother. I hope not.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

But the industry continued to overpromise with feel-good anecdotes even as data increasingly showed that microcredit, on average, has a quite limited (though generally positive) impact. Over the long term, truth will out, and it well may destroy not only your reputation but all the good you hoped to do.

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Microfinance Entrepreneur Crisis Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Sometimes the crisis is months, or even years, in the making – but when it explodes, it does so spectacularly. All this brings us to the one aspect of the ignorable moment that is, for a strong leader, positive and priceless. Crisis management Ethics Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The global financial crisis that continues to send shock waves across the world unfortunately represents the ugly face of capitalism today. The experiences of my company, ITC, bears out that innovative corporate strategies can deliver large-scale social good whilst enhancing stakeholder value for the long run.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

They want the companies they buy from to trade in an ethical and responsible way, and for the organizations they work for to not only make a positive difference to the world, but to offer them work that is fulfilling and enriching in equal measure.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

A taxi showed up not long after with the pizza, and Palmieri delivered it to the table. My colleagues and I did an experiment in which I gave participants difficult ethical challenges where there seemed to be no good choice. But some tension is a positive thing, because it can help get people to move past should to could.

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Participative Creativity Learning-by-Doing Course 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down? These critiques have brought about some change.

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Mintzberg Education Long-term Class 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The Company's primary objective is to maximize long-term stockholder value, while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standards. Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.

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Mission Statement Collins Competitive Advantage Motivation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

. • Executive compensation has been reformed significantly to align with long-term performance. Banks have developed fortress balance sheets, improving credit quality by 54 percent, increasing net income and, restoring aggregate lending to pre-crisis levels of nearly $7 trillion. leaving long-time archrival Fidelity in the dust.

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Finance Motivation White Paper Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Mackey told us in our interview that he believes that in recent decades, capitalism has lost its ethical mooring and that the explosion of corporate scandals is evidence of this drifting. But Mulally maintained his equanimity and stayed on the path that he believed was right for the long-term good of the company. "We

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Ethics Morale Airlines CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

This is one of those stories, which looks at the devastating Ebola crisis through the lens of both history and risk management, with lessons that go beyond what''s happening in Africa. Instead, most who work on Wall Street and are successful "have no serious stake in the long-term fates of their firms."

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Not to mention boardroom soap operas, front-page ethics scandals, and more changes of direction than a surfer in a hurricane. What's important about HP is what it says about how hard it is for any organization to maintain its leadership position from one generation of technology and markets and culture to the next.

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Venture Capitalist CEO Long-term Magazine 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

Effective leaders don’t sit idly by while hoping their people will behave ethically and perform competently. People in executive positions are more likely than those at the bottom to feel they’d be rewarded, or at least not punished, for raising uncomfortable issues. But even at the top, it can be difficult to speak up.

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Incentives Performance Review Welch Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Selecting a new chief executive is critical because so much rides on a positive outcome. By tackling the job in partnership with a still-effective chief executive, the board leader can help root the process deeply in the company’s management development, preventing succession from becoming an event-driven crisis.

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CEO Tips Long-term Consultative 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

In many professions, the idea of full-scope, sophisticated positioning has been foreign up until now. Gaining confidence is crucial… as business relationships with professionals are established to be long-term in duration. Your key management team is dynamic, in terms of business issues. Crisis Plan.

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Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

But the ultimate question that gets fuzzed-over in the filing and response is one of culture and accountability — whether a long-serving CEO is accountable for a corporate culture that has spawned major regulatory inquiries and settlements across a broad range of legal issues, even though the firm has otherwise performed well commercially.

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Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Business and organizational stories do not hit the public consciousness until there is a crisis. Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? 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.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. This is a relatively new client, but I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt his positivity sets the tone for the entire organization and has produced incredible results.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

The biggest problem with business, in a one-sentence capsule, is: People exhibit misplaced priorities and impatience… seeking profit and power, possessing unrealistic views of purpose, and not fully willing to do the things necessary to sustain orderly growth and long-term success. Reacting to a Crisis or Emergency.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Change is 90% positive. Crisis management.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Organizations get people caught in activity traps… unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. View goals as long-term, rather than short-term.

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