Tag: leadership skills
Five Steps to Turn Wasteful Meetings into Drivers of Success
Five Steps to Effective Meetings 1. Context. Understand the meeting’s place in the broader journey. It’s not about the meeting itself, or even the meeting experience. It’s about how the…
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Corporate Culture: The Only Truly Sustainable Competitive Advantage
In sustainable, championship cultures, behaviors (the way we do things here) are inextricably linked to relationships, informed by attitudes, built on a rock-solid base of values, and completely appropriate for…
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How John Smale Changed the Business Environment for Procter & Gamble
In the pantheon of signs, symbol, and stories that help people understand Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) culture, one of the classics is how former P&G CEO John Smale got the…
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Supercommittee Classic Level Three Failure in Decision Making
The United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction would have had to publish its plan yesterday to meet the vote deadline of tomorrow. They did not. It's…
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Oops
Webster defines "oops" as —"used typically to express mild apology, surprise, or dismay". Rick Perry had an oops in this week’s presidential debate. He forgot the Department of Energy…
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s Public Lambasting of the Bank of Canada
. Identify Target Audiences There is rarely one single target audience. Instead, it’s important to influence the target directly and to influence their influencers. Beyond conversing with bank regulators, Dimon…
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Steve Jobs and the Power of a Passionate Focus
All my learning as a leader myself, from working with leaders going into new roles, and from interviewing leaders for this column, makes me believe that focusing on one burning…
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Despite Bleak Housing Market, Toll Brothers CEO Isn’t Panicking
ut yourself in Doug Yearley’s shoes in November 2009. You’ve just been named EVP on the way to becoming CEO of luxury home builder Toll Brothers, a company that lost…
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When you're in a hole, stop digging
The story repeats. Someone makes a mistake and tries to make up for it by doubling down on something else, kicking off a spiral of doom. This time it's…
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