Leading with Trust

JUNE 22, 2020

In her new book, Saving Face—How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust , Maya Hu-Chan examines face as a global concept that enables one to connect with people, break down barriers, and build trust and long-term relationships. ” L earning—In order to build and preserve face, it’s important to be a lifelong learner.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Becky Robinson and the Weaving Influence team pulled together a great webinar on Servant Leadership. Cheryl is also the author of, “Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others” Highlights from Cheryl include. Servant Leadership begins with self-examination. Focus on people before P&L.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Becky Robinson and the Weaving Influence team pulled together a great webinar on Servant Leadership. Cheryl is also the author of, “Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others” Highlights from Cheryl include. Servant Leadership begins with self-examination. Focus on people before P&L.

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Thin Difference

MAY 21, 2019

Nothing around us stays static, so change leadership is a necessity. Change for the sake of change is not good leadership. Change leadership and common good need a tighter intersection. Change leadership and common good create an interesting intersection. Corporate Citizenship and Change Leadership.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L. It amazes me how few leaders understand how to harness, measure, leverage, and ultimately achieve true alignment behind their strategies and objectives. This asset is, of course, alignment. About the Author.

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Women on Business

JULY 13, 2012

How to run a business. Everyone offers advice on how to start a business, what we need to know is how to run a business. How do we interpret P &L L’s and why are they important? We also need advice beyond the start-up phase; we need to know what next?

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Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

For the purpose of this post, I want to focus on leadership. Specifically, how P90X2 (and the first one) has taught me some valuable lessons that enhance and encourage my leadership. The other day, I posted a tweet that said: When people ask me how to spell discipline, I tell them: D…A…I…L…Y!

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Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

For the purpose of this post, I want to focus on leadership. Specifically, how P90X2 (and the first one) has taught me some valuable lessons that enhance and encourage my leadership. The other day, I posted a tweet that said: When people ask me how to spell discipline, I tell them: D…A…I…L…Y!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2019

Before starting as CFO, I repeatedly scanned through my leadership qualities, considering how I would present myself to my new colleagues. The night before my first day, a jumble of questions raced around my sleepless mind: “How will I balance openness with authority?” “How will I know if I am being effective?”.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

“One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.” When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.” ” –Franklin P. THE LEADERSHIP GAP.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He’s demonstrating an early Apple computer and is explaining that the adoption of personal computers would take some time; it would be “very gradual, very human, and will seduce you into learning how to use it.” Most would have chosen to use a plastic screen, for reasons that usually turn up on a P&L projection.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

Amidst the complexities of leadership challenges, the unique insights contributed by Anthony Horton, Stephanie Neal, and Chris McCarthy add a compelling layer to the unfolding narrative. Stephanie Neal’s research underscores the importance of aligning organizational values with leadership actions.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The authors of the study went on to offer five practical suggestions for using emotional intelligence measures in personnel selection (p. Don’t let your emotions get the best of you when deciding when and how to use measure of emotional intelligence in your organization. Chose your EI measure carefully. Simmons, Ph.D.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I’m going to let Stan end this review on a very positive note by quoting one of my favorite sections of the book: Here is what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. You’re waiting for leadership to happen to you? Leadership book review simmons slap' So what are you waiting for? (p.

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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Whether or not you think Netflix is a company you want to emulate (and there are those who question some of their tactics ), Powerful outlines some very relevant points about how to be intentional about the organization your building – from the culture to employee engagement. All hope is not lost, though.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Mentors might equip their protégés with specific skills like how to build healthy relationships, how to use the company’s project management software, how to become a leader, what to look for when reading a P&L, or, in the case of Adwoa Dadzie, how to think big. “I

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 12, 2011

.” In “First, Let’s Fire all the Managers,” Gary Hamel reports on his study of Morning Star, a $700 million California food producer that “demonstrates how to create an organization that combines managerial discipline and market-centric flexibility — without bosses, titles, or promotions.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Mentors might equip their protégés with specific skills like how to build healthy relationships, how to use the company’s project management software, how to become a leader , what to look for when reading a P&L, or, in the case of Adwoa Dadzie, how to think big. “I

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership. So you must demonstrate very strong leadership. Overall transparency requires that leadership models it. Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 0262133849.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

And we know how the business works, so it’s not that hard.” Leadership teams I’ve worked with have an almost primal urge to give their middle managers a list of activities. Left to their own devices, many leadership teams shortchange the questions of what they want the change to achieve, and why.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Many of the successful managers and professionals who come back to business school at mid-career are looking for more than honing their leadership skills. Many are stuck in their careers. They’re looking for direction and support for the changes they long to make in the near future.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. Janssen knows that Immersion must cross silos (departments, regions, countries, and more), temporarily pulling people from one P&L to work on a project whose success may accrue to another P&L.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

This trait was wonderfully illustrated by a senior vice president in a telecoms company who recounted how a regulatory ruling had just wiped several millions dollars from his bottom line. His only thought was how to make up the shortfall. Insiders are good-humored.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Asking A.G.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

People and Organization : In late 2010, GE CEO Jeff Immelt decided to give country managers P&L responsibility for all of GE in their countries and have them report to vice chairman John Rice, who would be stationed in Hong Kong. How to Minimize Your Biases When Making Decisions. Decision making Leadership'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field Mike Michalowicz HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations Nancy Duarte Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher [.].

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But how to keep educating ourselves is a complicated question. If everyone on the leadership team has an advanced degree and you don’t, it may be an uphill battle to convince them of your merits. We all know that in the modern economy, we can’t just stop learning. You and Your Team Series. Learning.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2017

"When they get to own a P&L or become the CEO, in many cases executives are rusty at strategy or have never even been given a set of tools to set strategy," says management consultant Tim Lewko. Plan: How to implement and achieve decisions? Can't Get Enough Leadership. Adjust: What's working, not working, and why? .

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

” I love this quote from L. For Richard, a respected academic and world authority on leadership, vacations are also serious stuff. What can we learn about how to take leisure time from these true masters in the art of living? To himself, he always appears to be doing both.” You and Your Team. Move and exercise.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. Additionally, impractical and quickly outmoded high level P&L management can be supplanted by performance metrics that stress driving value for every critical part of the enterprise. Manage costs — or add value?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Executives frequently focus on analyzing the company’s profit and loss to determine where the company is over-spending and being wasteful, and then figure out how to reduce expenses to drive more profit to the bottom line. However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

For years I've been working on helping companies to see how work, home, community, and self (mind, body, and spirit) can be mutually reinforcing; this is the "four-way wins" approach I describe in Total Leadership. David is a VP who is accountable for a multi-billion dollar P & L business.

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The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 20, 2015

What Is a Leadership Awakener? For example – coaching someone how to communicate more respectfully to teammates. A leader wearing the hat of teacher focuses on building competencies and thinking capabilities – such as how to read a P&L statement or presentation skills. Leadership awakeners think differently.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

And more recently, athletic apparel company Puma (working with my colleagues at PwC and the UK's TruCost) produced an " environmental P&L " which measured the "real" cost of carbon and other environmental inputs like water. It's innovative and committed, but it also points to a massive global failure of leadership on climate policy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

P&L impact or other financial impact. The first was the difficulty in creating a set of metrics that are aligned with what senior leadership actually cares about. After all, their survival hinged on figuring out how to make things click. The five most commonly used metrics were: Revenue generated by new products.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The leader makes the reorg team and leadership swear to secrecy and then is surprised when the news leaks to the wider organization (it always does, we’re afraid). So, how to handle this challenge? ReOrg: How to Get It Right. ” Everyone thinks the real reason for the reorg is job losses (whether it is or not).

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