Published: July 28, 2012 Q. You know of several high-level professionals who have used a career coach. What are some reasons that you or others might do the same? A. Professionals enlist coaches to accelerate their careers, getting help with things like making decisions, cultivating a presence and achieving self-awareness. Coaches can provide honest, unfiltered […]
A Harvard Business School professor reflects on what she has learned from senior executives about the unique value that strategic leaders can bring to their companies. JULY 2012 • Cynthia A. Montgomery Seven years ago, I changed the focus of my strategy teaching at the Harvard Business School. After instructing MBAs for most of the […]
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill Most leadership writing today advises us on how to prosper within the system or perhaps even on flourishing despite of the system. What’s missing? Real leadership is about transforming the system. Leadership is not merely about success. […]
Your Company Can Deliver, but Can It Discover? . Librado Romero/The New York Times Ronald M. Shaich, founder, chairman and co-C.E.O. of Panera Bread, says companies often err by letting their “delivery muscle” — how they get their work done — become stronger than the “discovery muscle” that brings innovation. » Q. How has […]
Sally Ride, the United States’ first woman astronaut, died too soon this week at the age of 61. In 2012, it’s perhaps easy to forget what she was up against when she rode into space on the shuttle Challenger in 1983. As the New York Times pointed out its obituary of Ride, , the comedian […]
Marissa Mayer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The big story in corporate leadership this week was Marissa Mayer‘s hiring from Google to become chief executive officer of Yahoo! At Forbes Leadership we got right on it. Shortly after the appointment was announced, Dorie Clark weighed in with “Three Reasons Why Marissa Mayer’s Hiring Is a Huge […]
The old distinctions between leaders and followers are gone. Great followers follow by leading. Here’s 11 ways to make sure you do just that. In 1982 I left a great job at MTV: Music Television for what is now the A&E Network for one reason: to work for Jim Collins. A highly successful executive, […]
Many people feel that work is eating into their personal life. In fact, more than 3% of all US employees are working from home at 2am — each night. Doing the math, that tells us that roughly everyone is working at 2am at least once every month. And, the average US office worker spends more […]
“We should all be striving to be better… every day” very profoundly affirmed by Jon Keyser. Every day is an opportunity to make ourselves more better and to demonstrate improvise version of our selves to the planet.( It is not that you want to show better version that’s why you do all that but it […]
NASA includes two Indian innovators on waste management NASA, the US space agency has included two Indian innovators for its conference on waste management. WASHINGTON: NASA, the US space agency has included two Indian innovators for its conference on waste management. Nitin Gupta from Attero Recycling and Anshu Goonj from Goonj are among nine innovators […]
Kobe Bryant earns $30m a year and should be well past worrying about reputations, but here he is on a soggy night in Manchester, settled around a table in a near-deserted town hall and talking about his nation’s own reputation, at the end of a day in which the USA basketball team have taken tea […]
This question has been bouncing around my brain since I left the International Society for Technology in Education conference. When people say that I’m an ed-tech leader, I am always shocked. I don’t think of myself as a leader in this area — just someone who really likes what he does. So, what makes someone […]
Darren Calabrese, for USA TODAY Entrepreneur Wendy Woods, meditating next to her BlackBerry, says it helps her be more creative. EnlargeClose Darren Calabrese, for USA TODAY Entrepreneur Wendy Woods, meditating next to her BlackBerry, says it helps her be more creative. Sponsored Links But a new study finds that becoming more focused, productive and […]
Librado Romero/The New York Times Cathy Choi is president of Bulbrite, a lighting maker and supply company in Moonachie, N.J. After accepting her father’s offer to join it, she says, she “made a concerted effort to make the company the leader, not me or my dad.” Corner Office Every Sunday, Adam Bryant talks with […]
Performance appraisals are one of the most frequently criticized talent management practices. The criticisms range from their being an enormous waste of time to their having a destructive impact on the relationship between managers and their subordinates. Criticizing performance appraisals has a long history. For decades, the literature on talent management has pointed out […]
While this message is written to you from my bed room. After my cardiac surgery of this week, I am writing a first post for my favorite viewers. It was a great experience to me where I am completely conscious and seeing cardiac specialist struggling to survive trainer with at most stress. Medical experts have […]
Corporate corruption is the new normal, Americans say Polls show that nearly three-quarters of Americans think that corporate corruption has increased in recent years, with 62% saying corporate corruption is endemic. That could have a lasting impact on the way people relate to businesses and public institutions, writes Eduardo Porter. “It’s hard to fathom the […]
With physicists closing in on the elusive Higgs boson the long sought-after “God particle” that could explain so much about the origins and makeup of the universe — I think it’s time to reveal an Earth-shattering revelation of my own. To all of you, I’m a friendly neighborhood management consultant and former corporate executive, but […]
The corner office can be a high-pressure environment, but imagine calling the shots in a cramped shuttle in orbit 100 kilometers above the planet. Jeffrey Ashby made some split-second decisions while space-sick and weightless. He was commander of the shuttle Atlantis on its 2002 mission to bring equipment to the International Space Station. He made […]
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