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The people part of business operations.

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The CEO as “Cultural Excellence Officer”

Management, Strategy

Jack Litewka, Author, THE SOPHISTICATED MANAGER:  Essential Leadership Lessons for Developing High-Performance Team… and Avoiding Critical Mistakes A CEO creates the Corporate Culture.  This activity deserves and requires careful thought and communication. If this activity is considered a “nice-to-have”, then the resulting culture is random and becomes “cultural transmission by osmosis” – which is not the […]

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the ceo magazine, productivity,

Get Simpler, Stay Simpler

Management

Lisa Bodell, Founder & CEO, futurethink In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services—forerunner to the C.I.A.— wrote a field manual for agents looking to sabotage organizations in the name of American national security. The manual included a striking strategy: complication. The agency directed saboteurs to “insist on doing everything through channels. Never permit shortcuts to be

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the ceo magazine, innovation,

Harness the power of possibility to develop your people and your business

Management

Andy Lothian, CEO, Insights Learning and Development For entrepreneurs, harnessing the power of possibility takes an idea and turns it into a business enterprise. For teams, leveraging possibility creates an output that is greater than the sum of its parts. When we give ourselves permission to operate in an ‘anything is possible’ mindset, we open our

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the ceo magazine, organizational culture,

Breaking the Innovation Barrier: Designing a Boolean System

Management

Brady Mick, Architect, Workplace Strategist, & Client Leader, BHDP Architecture The increasing complexity of today’s work requires creative solutions to drive results. Yet, while business beats the drum for innovation, traditional organizational structures stand in the way of achieving success. Although an essential component in many business operations, traditional management systems limit creativity, squander time and

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Experiential Learning: A Component of Long-Term Behavior Change

Management

Phil Geldart, Founder and CEO, Eagle’s Flight A CEO’s primary responsibility is to produce results. Whether these are financial in nature, linked to social responsibility, R&D, the environment or shareholder value, they all have one thing in common: they are the results of the behaviors of people. Every aspect of every organization flows, to a greater

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Adopting A “Growth Mindset” In The Workplace

Leadership, Management

Ruth Veloria, Executive Dean, University of Phoenix School of Business Growth mindset, a term coined by Stanford University psychology professor Carol Dweck, is the idea of inspiring individual and organizational confidence to achieve goals. It is about believing that talents and abilities can be improved through effort and new strategies: a fixed mindset believes talents

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the ceo magazine, innovation,

To be the disrupted or the disruptor? That is the question

Management, Strategy

Chuck Saia, CEO, Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory Disruption isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a legitimate concern on the minds of the executives I meet with. There are a lot of reasons organizations can be disrupted—innovation, technological advances, policy changes, to name just a few. But if executives can foster a culture of courage and

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