360 Posts found for Source: CEO Refresher

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of the demise of the diversity movement have been largely exaggerated. However, before we get carried away with how far diversity has come and is likely to go it is time to take a look at its relationship to power. It is this relationship, as much as anything, that will determine the long term viability of the diversity movement. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Richard T. Alpert, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Miscellaneous

What I must do to get my garden back in shape and to make it world class, is exactly what every leader must do: seed, feed, and weed.

Content: Article | Author: Eileen McDargh | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

One attribute – corporate decisiveness – stands out above all others as having the greatest effect on success and profitability, and this attribute is a key component of most of the others.

Content: Article | Author: Tom FitzGerald | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Male-led organizations will benefit from adopting structures and strategies similar to those now being created by women entrepreneurs that are sensitive to their employees ever-developing sense of how to make their careers and personal lives more compatible.

Content: Article | Author: Stacey van Hooven | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Women in Business

Considering a major change? Identify potential problem areas first with this quick assessment.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Maurer | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Best Practices, Change Management

Unless we fully understand the theory or thinking that we held true when we created practices and procedures that we use presently, we will be forever condemned to create different versions of what we have always done.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Tate | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

The ways of thinking that underlie strategy formulation are seldom addressed in business textbooks. But principles, or at least guides, can be reverse engineered by careful review of business case studies. The author has assembled some of these and presents them in a skeletal form in hopes they offer a useful checklist and
food for thought as to how leaders think.

Content: Article | Author: Charles Albano | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Strategy

Why do some management ideas take root and remain viable and others wither and die? This article offers four fundamental reasons:
– All organizations are, fundamentally, living social organisms;
– Organizational culture is more powerful than anything else;
– System-focused interventions work; component-centered interventions usually do not;
– Interventions clearly tied to business strategy work; interventions not … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: William E. Schneider | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Use this quick quiz to check out your perceptions and intentions vs those of those who report to you. Compare the perceptions; talk about the differences; identify the opportunities; and close the important gaps.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Best Practices, Management

A summary of key points found in the book ‘Change Is the Rule
Practical Actions for Change: On Target, On Time, On Budget’ by Winford E. “Dutch” Holland, Ph.D.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Studies reflect fewer than 30 percent of downsizing efforts have achieved anticipated profitability. This statistic suggests the real downsizing losers are organizations and stockholders.

Content: Article | Author: Freda Turner, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Best Practices, Human Resources

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

A summary presentation of 10 Rules illuminated in the book, ‘Sam Walton: Made in America, My Story’

Content: Article | Authors: J. Huey, Sam Walton | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

When we transcend a paradox there is often a quality of obviousness that produces a shock of recognition. No longer held captive by the old way of thinking, we are liberated to see things we have known all along, but couldn’t assemble into a useful model for action.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Problems / Solutions, Vision

The Art of War, compiled over two thousand years ago has been a valuable source of insight for leaders and strategists. The ‘nine grounds’ examines the ‘tactical’ issues of a group in relation to its terrain or territory, useful in its application to competitive and market analysis and to the social, political, and more abstract senses.

Content: Article | Sources: CEO Refresher, The Art of War by Sun Tzu | Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Strategy

What does it take to deliver a great presentation — preparation, practice and passion. It takes dedication and hard work. The best speakers do their homework and use many of these 10 techniques.

Content: Article | Author: Paul B. Thornton | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Personal Development

How do we ensure that our leadership development efforts are targeted, focused, relevant, and directly linked to our business results? Here are six things every executive must look at.

Content: Article | Authors: Janet Oliver, Joe DiSabatino | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

“Let’s peel away the business academic interpretations and get at the root of thinking strategically.”

Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Strategy

The first job of a leader is to define reality.

Content: Quotation | Author: Max De Pree | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership

3M has taken the whole “innovation company” thing one step farther. It has found an innovative way to be innovative, applying the Lead User process (developed by Eric von Hippel, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management).

Content: Article | Author: Craig Henderson | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Best Practices, Innovation