Robbie Bach, Author, Xbox Revisited: A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal When I am introduced as Microsoft’s original Chief Xbox Officer (or CXO), I get all kinds of reactions ranging from “Wow, what a great opportunity” to “Can I have your autograph for my son?” The Xbox saga was a challenging journey in […]
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John Manning, President, Management Action Programs, Inc & Author, The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters As your company’s leader, there are a gazillion ways you can go about determining if your business is on track. But when it comes to understanding productivity, as in how productive your people are relative to
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Like most other automakers, GM has faced the ups and downs of a troubled industry, but until last year, it had remained a powerhouse since its inception in 1908. GM led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, but then things changed. They faced bankruptcy in
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Bill Jensen, CEO, Jensen Group My team and I spent the past few years researching the future of work. We interviewed thousands of leaders from across the globe, asking “What are the toughest choices you must make to create the best possible future for your firm?” I was quickly schooled in global tough-choice metaphors. Spanish leaders spoke
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Steve Newhall, Managing Partner, Leadership & Talent Consulting, UK Business leaders spend significant amounts of time designing and agreeing upon strategy but comparatively little time thinking about their culture. In a 2014 Korn Ferry survey, while 72% of executives agreed that culture is extremely important to organizational performance, only 32% believed their own organization’s culture
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The self-help industry and the associated cult of positivity often leave us with an incomplete picture of the environment we find ourselves in. We end up seeing only opportunity without risk and end up relying on hope as a strategy. But just as crucially, this partial view of reality robs us of the positive potential
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We create organizational cultures as we go along, sometimes consciously, often unconsciously—but always through decisions. When leaders decide to build a powerhouse of excellence, they start by asking themselves what needs to change and what should stay the same. When companies embrace a change orientation, they consider innovation as part of that culture, not a
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The more you gain the more you have to lose. This fact often pressures leaders into spending more time defending their positions than they do in listening to new ideas. The one word every leader should avoid is, “But…” The word “but” signals that your brain has quickly conjured up reasons for not taking a
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Holly Duckworth, CEO – CAE, CMP, Leadership Solutions International At the pace of life today, time is money. We do not have time to waste with long meetings or long decision-making timelines. While we would like to have long conversations and time to think before we act, often we do not have that luxury. Our
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Media mavens and human resource professionals seem to collaborate periodically to establish, the cliché of the day. For a while it was “That being said.” Before that, it was touching base, doing a deep dive, cascading, at the end of the day, and the bottom line. Now we all need to “start the conversation.” Pick
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