Category: Leadership Skills
The Working Girl Question
Oren Trask was CEO of media conglomerate, Trask industries. He was particularly gifted in choosing great people. Behavioral interviews are useful...to a point. It's essential to separate out people who…
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The Board Two-Step
Ken Chenault's approach to board management + Bryan Smith's approach to persuasion = the board two-step. Bryan Smith lays out five levels of persuasion Tell - The traffic policeman on…
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CEO Success – Howard Fluhr
One of my heroes gave the talk at the opening dinner of this week's CEO Boot Camp. I've known Howard Fluhr since we started running CEO Boot Camps in 2005. …
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The tragedy of the common shareholder
Maximizing shareholder value is not working. It's driving so many short term decisions that we seem to be destroying our collective futures. It's the tragedy of the common all over…
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4 CAMS of Leading Through a Crisis
Alix Partners' Peter Fitzsimmons' suggests that turning around companies requires a focus on 4 CAMS: Cash, Achievable plans, Meaningful actions, and Stakeholders. Cash - Get your hands around the cash…
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Anticipated Consequences in Haiti
So painful. So preventable. So frustrating. It would have been one thing if Haiti had been hit by a hurricane the week after the earthquake. But this is ten months…
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Throwing the bums out is not enough
It was an unsatifying election for many. Certainly for those who lost, and for those who supported candidates who lost. But also for many of the people who voted against…
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Create moments of connection
We've all experienced them - those moments of connection. They happen when someone stops and really listens to what someone else is saying so they hear something that sparks something…
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Look outside for the platform for change
The only way anyone will ever change anything is if they believe they can not keep doing what they are doing in the way they are doing it. This requires…
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