If Men are From Mars, How on Earth Does a Woman Get Promoted?
Article takes a look at the results of a Harwich Group study of executive men and women that found significant differences in the perspectives men and women have towards female corporate leaders. Also offered are a few suggestions that women executives feel need to be done within Corporate America.
Content: Article | Author: Thomas M. Murphy | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Women in Business
Accountability in Knowledge-Based Organizations
“We’ve stopped complaining about the lack of accountability and provided a tool to make it understandable, negotiable, and accessible.”
Content: Article | Authors: Bruce Klatt, Shaun Murphy | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous
The Leadership Imperative – The Vision Thing!
Ever wonder why people have difficulty with commitment – what’s wrong with this picture?
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Strategy
Cutting Costs Without Losing Your Shirt
This article outlines some of the reasons that companies are feeling the pressure to reduce costs and then offers a five-step methodology for building a foundation of strategic cost reduction (SCR) in your organization.
Content: Article | Author: Derek F. Martin | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management
The Four Emotional Stages of Change
How often do we make false assumptions about other people based on our own culture and experiences? And even more importantly, how often do we fail to recognise and understand how individuals deal with grief and change in their personal lives or at work.
Content: Article | Author: Anne Riches | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Management
The Three Cs of Leadership
The Army’s motto – “Be All That You Can Be” is both simple and powerful. Leaders help people achieve that goal. In essence, leaders do three things: they challenge people; they build people’s confidence; and they coach people.
Content: Article | Author: Paul B. Thornton | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership
Sun Tzu
A general must see alone and know alone, meaning that he must see what others do not see and know what others do not know. Seeing what others do not see is called brilliance, knowing what others do not know is called genius. Brilliant geniuses win first, meaning that they defend in such a way as to be unassailable and attack in such a way … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Strategy
Unleash Ownership and Creative Talent
The most important five contributions you can make to unleash ownership and creative talent – from ‘Soaring WithThe Phoenix’ by James Belasco and Jerre Stead.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership
Clemmer Group
People can’t do what they can’t imagine.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Action, Success / Failure
Changing, Learning, Coaching, Improving
A few ‘take-aways’ from Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Organization and Team Transformation and Coaching for High Performance with Dr. Peter Jensen and Jim Clemmer.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Miscellaneous
Clemmer Group
Life is change. Growth is optional.
Corollary: If the rate of external change exceeds our rate of internal growth we’re eventually going to be changed.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
You’re Getting the Behaviour You Designed
This article starts off with a dubious and unsupported rail against centralized organizations. Luckily, it soon changes gears and discusses high-performing organizations and the futility of searching for an ideal or perfect organizational structure (the structure must be appropriate for the organization’s vision and values, goals and priorities, skill and experience levels, culture, team effectiveness, etc.) Some general trends that are emerging are … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
James Keebler (author of Keeping Score)
Until customers of measures and owners of measures get together, what gets measured doesn’t necessarily get managed…What gets rewarded gets managed.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Measurement
Self Limiting Learning Disabilities
Peter Senge argues that it is no accident that most organizations are ‘poor learners’. The way organizations are designed and structured, the ways jobs are defined, and the way we have been taught to behave and think in organizations create fundamental learning disabilities. The disabilities persist in spite of the best efforts of intelligent and committed people. The learning that does take place occurs in … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Back to the Beginning – Core Values
Core ideology, core values, core purpose, “big hairy audacious goals” and envisioned future – from an HBR feature by James Collins and Jerry Porras.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Strategy
Managing By Values
What if you could give your organization the gift of a magnificent and promising future while also discovering a way for all of its stakeholders to be satisfied in the process? To do so means implementing a new and broader approach that builds on the foundation of an effective organization, namely, its mission and its values. Rather than focusing solely on results, winning companies first … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Ken Blanchard | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management
After the Merger: Ten Critical Steps for the CEO to Make it Work
The actions of the CEO in the first few weeks surrounding a merger can determine success or failure. There are a lot of minefields out there. How can you navigate through them and emerge a winner? Merger integration is not a simple process, but there are a few principles that can help you drive the process through to a successful conclusion.
Content: Article | Author: Mark J. Schneiderman | Source: CEO Refresher
How the Internet Affects Operating Margin
The Warning Signs of Corporate Trouble
True, the cause of corporate death is most often written in terms of finance, markets, strategy, productivity, tactics. Occasionally embezzlement or blatant error. But the real reasons, the underlying conditions that made the company weak, are most often found in the spirit of the company where the hidden corporate killers lurk. Fortunately, indications of problems can be detected long before anything shows on the bottom … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Tom FitzGerald | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management
Leadership – How Would Your Employees Rate You?
Is there anything you can do to turn your managers into leaders? One strategy might be to seek guidance from those being led. This article offers a survey to do just that.
Content: Article | Author: T. M. Georges | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management