Assessment of the situation to devise a game plan for things to come to fruition.
Chas Klivans The journey of Yahoo has been sad to watch…because it was preventable. Sometimes our human frailty leads us to get enraptured with our company’s 30,000 feet vision. During the consulting engagement to assist the Saint Joseph of Orange’s Board of Directors with their hospital system’s five year growth plan; we in the suits were […]
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Entrepreneurs are often touted as brave and visionary. They are admired for the foresight and willingness to change the model. To build better ways. While it is sometimes true it often times is not the case. The pressure of running your own gig leads many entrepreneurs to come from places more human and less heroic
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Welcome to the “Feelings Economy”. You’ve been living in it for some time now: a world where our work and home lives are driven by feelings, not intellect. What makes this so? According to brain science, it is the emotional side of the brain—not the rational, logical one—that tells us what is true. In other
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What use is there in navigating an ethical course if you’re unable to influence the thoughts and actions of others? It’s one thing for you to know right from wrong, and quite another to convince others to act collectively on your knowledge. To put your ethics to work, you have to be able to influence
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Dr Yahya Shakweh A recent Harvard survey, of nearly 700 executives across a variety of industries concluded that very few top companies, less than 18%, can be rated very effective at either strategy or execution. Only 8% are very effective at both, while 63% were rated neutral or worse on at least one aspect. According to this survey,
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Where do you do your best creative work? As CEOs, we often ignore this simple question, believing that we have to be seen in the office to be seen to be leading. Few of us are creative when we are chained to a desk. As the ultimate leaders of our businesses, we have to be
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Most people want the corner office, what used to be the country club membership, and the expense account. But are we willing to pay the price? Recently I had the opportunity to be a guest on a morning talk/news show. I had to get up at 4 am to be at the downtown studio at
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As we navigate events in our personal and professional lives, we are always expending energy. We also have a finite amount of energy and, depending how we channel our energy, we either use our time (and energy) wisely or waste it. In order to explain how this occurs, we rely on
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New year, new you. This idea, albeit cliché, is motivation for many individuals to reflect on their personal growth and what they’d like to accomplish in the upcoming year. And while some will dismiss the idea that new year’s resolutions can be successfully upheld, there is value in setting meaningful goals for yourself. Assessing your
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Ann Skeet, Director of Leadership Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University Since the story broke that VW deliberately buried emissions results in its software, plenty has been written about this case of corporate malfeasance, perhaps more than any since Enron. The Volkswagen brand crisis seems fairly straightforward to me. With
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