Must Reads. Pixar's Randy Nelson on the Collaborative Age. Hiring Wisdom: Top 10 Ways to Guarantee Your Best People Will Quit. Here are 10 ways to guarantee that your best people will quit: 10.
Treat everyone equally. This may sound good, but your employees are not equal. Some are worth more because they produce more results. How Margaret Thatcher Changed Britain. The Best-Performing CEOs in the World. It’s no accident that chief executives so often focus on short-term financial results at the expense of longer-term performance.
They have every incentive to do so. If they don’t make their quarterly or annual numbers, their compensation drops and their jobs are in jeopardy. Stock analysts, shareholders, and often their own boards judge them harshly if they miss near-term goals. And without equally strong pressure to manage for a future that stretches beyond 90 or 180 days, CEOs’ behavior is unlikely to change. Developing a simple yet rigorous way to gauge long-term performance is crucial; after all, in business, leaders default to managing what’s measured. Five years ago we launched a global project to address that challenge. Three years ago, in the January–February 2010 issue of HBR, we introduced such a scorecard. The Science of What We Call "Intuition" Success Starts Only After A Brutally Honest Look In The Mirror.
About two years ago, my company, Axcess Worldwide, was preparing to broker a major agreement between two publicaly traded companies that were the leaders in their respective industries.
In the end, we succeeded. But going in, we didn’t know if the never-before-attempted concept we’d proposed would survive the hard negotiations on a definitive agreement. Turnaround and Grow: Ten Pillars of Successful Business Transformation. Over a lifecycle, every business will struggle dramatically to adapt to a changing environment.
While many businesses fail, others make the turn successfully. The Ten Pillars represent time tested, proven concepts and methodology common to successful turnarounds and transformations I have experienced over the past 15 years, and that continue to work today. Rypple's Daniel Debow on the Corporate Shift from Hierarchy to Social Network. Every Leader Is an Artist - Michael O'Malley. By Michael O'Malley | 9:00 AM August 24, 2012.
The Olympics' Greatest Feat: An Unpaid, Highly Engaged Workforce - Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones. By Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones | 7:00 AM August 8, 2012 They are all over the Games.
They greet you at the airport. They direct you from the trains. They guide you through the Olympic Park. Danny Boyle acknowledged them as the key to the success of the opening ceremony. Breaking Bad Habits in Your Organization. By Venk Chandran on August 8, 2012 in How To...
On Wednesday nights, I hit the pause button on my regular routine and prepare for a dose of AMC’s Breaking Bad. I’ve done my utter best to get this evening right. I’ve ignored the mess in the kitchen, forgot about working out, and indulged in a bunch of less than optimal behaviors. Didn’t even flinch or think about it, until I was writing about it. It’s my Breaking Bad habit — and what am I if not a creature of habit? Ahh habits, the friendly autopilot that take the guesswork out of the everyday. Three Keys to Managing Your Personal Brand. Every person has a brand, represented by a name and face that has a host of associated characteristics, such as: professional skills and assets, career paths, communication styles, appearance, personalities, interests, activities, friends, family and more.
The brand influences all relationships by affecting how a person is perceived and whether he or she is liked and respected. The “person brand” can be actively managed with disciple and consistency over time, or it can be allowed to drift. There is a huge payoff to employing the active management option, and there are large risks to the alternative. There are three keys to getting your brand under your control. Your brand needs to have a strategic vision that details what you want it to stand for. The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs. His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company.
Along the way he helped to transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing. Www.liquidagency.com/downloads/pdf/Brand Summit/Interviews + Articles/LA11_Article_LBS-BrandCulture_R1.pdf. The "Bitch In The Boardroom" Stereotype: Women Speak Out About Success And Likability. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, is undoubtedly a mover and shaker.
The woman behind Mark Zuckerberg also happens to be the social network’s highest paid exec and has the sort of resume any successful business person (man or woman) would love to have--think chief of staff for the U.S. Managing a Virtual Team - Mark Mortensen and Michael O’Leary. By Mark Mortensen and Michael O’Leary | 9:52 AM April 16, 2012 Teams that are geographically-dispersed, or virtual, have now been used and studied for more than three decades — yet we all still wrestle with how to get them right. Managers frequently ask for best practices for managing their global teams, and recently we’ve noticed some common themes. Here are the three questions that keep coming up again and again, and what the research tells us about how to address them: 1.