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Corporate Leadership for the 21st Century: Sustainability Experience Required

BY Alice Korngold
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You will soon find that no corporate board will hire a CEO or elect a new board member who doesn't have experience in environmental sustainability and social issues. Why would I say this? And where would a corporate person gain ...READ»

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Startup Sales - Why Hiring Seasoned Sales Reps May Not Work

BY Mark Suster
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One of the biggest mistakes I see early-stage startups making is hiring "seasoned" sales professionals or hiring people too senior, too early. Here is my recommended approach.READ»

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Poll: Why the Boss Sucks, By Employees

BY Austin Carr
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According to a new survey, managers consider themselves smarter, a better coach, and more visionary than many of their underlings believe.READ»

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Replacing a Missing Star

BY John Baldoni
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Sometimes if you scratch beneath the surface of a good team, you may find that team performance depends upon the efforts of one or two high achievers. That may be okay for the short term but what happens when one or two of those ...READ»

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Jumping to a Conclusion Is Not Making a Decision!

BY Paul Glover
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"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. " Benjamin Franklin I just returned from a visit to a client company where I am assisting them through a restructuring of the business. During the last twelve ...READ»

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Digital Incivility: The Unseemly Rise of Rudeness

BY Tony Schwartz
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The real challenge is to find a balance between becoming a prisoner to your email and still responding in a reasonable period of time to those people who write to you with reasonable requests.READ»

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Behaving Better for the Good of All

BY John Baldoni
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"Which corporate leaders do you admire?" was a question posed to me during a break during a leadership workshop I was conducting. In years past I would have rattled off a list of the "usual suspects" of familiar names with folks ...READ»

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CSR: Right on Target

BY Alice Korngold
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Today's The New York Times article, "Target's First Store in Manhattan Took a Decade of Wooing" describes how Target laid the groundwork to open a major new retail outlet in Harlem. According to the article, Target invested a decade ...READ»

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Quarterly Earnings Kill People-Based Innovation...

BY Cali Williams Yost
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Guess what? All innovation is people-based.READ»

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Royal Encounter: A Lesson in How to Make People Feel Special

BY John Baldoni
Relevancy Score: 55

It is not often that we look to royalty for insight into how to demonstrate leadership in the modern age. So in our age of egalitarianism Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain stands as an exception. To overlook her ability to ...READ»

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Put Employees First: A Conversation with Vineet Nayar

BY John Baldoni
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When Vineet Nayar became CEO of HCL Technologies in 2005, the company was in trouble. The IT firm was profitable but it was losing ground to major competitors and risked slipping into irrelevance. Some CEOs might have been ...READ»

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Re-Engineering a Leader's Value

BY John Baldoni
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Just as companies seek to re-engineer the value propositions of their products, managers should consider doing the same. Companies do it by adjusting the features, benefits and pricing of their offerings; managers do it by ...READ»

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How to Love (and Improve) Your IT Function

BY John Baldoni
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Everyone has a favorite IT complaint story. Whether it is how long it took to get your Blackberry to sync with the server to the installation of new software that took one year longer than expected, IT is the function we all love to ...READ»

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Why is the glass ceiling still alive and well?

BY Ray Williams
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Call it a glass ceiling, glass wall or a glass floor – there is still a barrier blocking senior women leaders in organizations. High-powered executive and professional women are increasingly opting out of, being bypassed, or otherwise disappearing from the highly professional workforce. While this exists, true diversity in organizations will not happen.READ»

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Design Is Critical to Nike CEO Mark Parker's Strategy; How About Yours?

BY Noah Robischon
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What's the difference between a CEO with a management background and one with a design DNA? Nike's president and CEO Mark Parker is the answer. He began his career as a designer inside the company, where he would often modify and ...READ»

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The Most Important Part of Your CSR Plan (And You Might Be Missing It)

BY Alice Korngold
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Take a look at your CSR program. You've got a green plan: check. Volunteer program: check. Philanthropy: check. But what is your company doing to invest in good leadership? Leadership for the sustainability and betterment of the ...READ»

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Get Real By Looking Outside Your Organization

BY John Baldoni
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Bob Lutz, the 77-year old veteran car executive, said that when he joined General Motors in 2002, the company’s culture was “inwardly focused not customer focused.” As Lutz who will retire next month explained in an interview on ...READ»

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Nonsense At Work

BY James McIntosh
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To fail at networking, don’t buy, don’t ask:When it comes to networking and business development, here is my golden rule. Don’t waste my time by taking your time.Yes, I do know that it takes time to build meaningful ...READ»

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Playing Kings: The CEO and President

BY John Elkington
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In the third post of their 7-part series, John Elkington and Charmian Love look at how CEOs are coping with the new wild cards dealt by environmental, social and governance challenges.READ»

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High Stakes: Winning the Ultimate Bet

BY John Elkington
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In the second post of their seven-part series, John Elkington and Charmian Love look at how change has come to the business world, from the sustainability movement and technological innovations, and what it means for the C-Suite.READ»

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Three Steps to Thinking Critically in the Age of Distraction

BY John Baldoni
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Attention spans are getting shorter in part due to the proliferation of new media, including the internet, email and texting. That is one conclusion that Maggie Jackson draws in her 2008 book, Distracted: The Erosion of ...READ»

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Getting a Business Architecture Team Started

BY Paul Arthur Bodine
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I am often asked, “What is the best way for my company to get a Business Architecture Program started?” Though each company has its own unique features, here is a good guide a CEO can follow:1. Carefully read the Bodine-Hilty ...READ»

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Kees van der Graaf on What Makes a Leader

BY Pierre Ferrari
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Kees van der Graaf, former executive with Unilever on honesty, clarity and transparency in leadership.READ»

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Preparing Leaders to Serve Others

BY John Baldoni
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A phenomenon sweeping college campuses is the teaching of courses in leadership. Once confined to business programs, the teaching of leadership as an academic subject is now being offered to students in all disciplines. One ...READ»

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Getting to Know Your New Organization

BY John Baldoni
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When The First 90 Days was first published in 2003, author and Harvard professor Michael Watkins said that “learning about the culture and politics of a new organization” was the most difficult challenge for a manager from the ...READ»

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