Don’t you just love it when a CEO charts a course that proves his belief in the intelligence and common sense of his employees? I’m not talking about a small company with a couple of people, but media powerhouse Tribune Co. with its 20,000 employees.
Sam Zell did just that.
Everyone who works knows what a typical […]
Chip Conley is CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the third-largest boutique hotel chain in the country. When his company was hit hard by the dot com crash Conley eliminated his own salary with no fanfare or announcement—he just stopped taking it.The situation got much worse after September 11, so Conley convinced his senior staff […]
Continuing from yesterday with comments on Russia’s Vladimir Putin Person of the Year through the eyes of a thirty-something Russian entrepreneur Nick Mikhailovsky, CEO of NTR Lab.
Most of Putin’s support by the nation comes from the growth of ordinary people’s living standards. The largest part of this economic equation—growth of oil prices—cannot be reasonably attributed […]
When time magazine named Russia’s Vladimir Putin Person of the Year my esteemed b5 editor thought it would make a good leadership post. I didn’t disagree, I just didn’t believe that I had the in depth knowledge to discuss it. But I had something better—my Russian business partner, Nick Mikhailovsky, CEO of NTR Lab. Nick […]
New books on leadership seem to appear almost daily and many of them have useful insights, but Epic Change: How to Lead Change in the Global Age by Timothy R Clark is one of the best I’ve read.
Clark left Oxford to find an academic position in the US, but instead spent eight years as a […]
The old adage “praise in public and criticize in private” should be the guiding light for bosses looking to provide a year-end wrap-up of how the company (or any organization) did along with a rallying cry for the coming year.I’d like to share a superb example of this in the form of an email sent […]
Accounting $olver offers up a nice present that reminded me of one I’ve given to the occasional recalcitrant client over the years. So I thought I’d be a copycat and regift you with my version of the infamous round tuit.
Use it sparingly and only on the passionless stuff in your life!
Don’t miss a post, […]
Steve Mann (who sounds like a whole lot of fun to hang with) comments on Bruce Nussbaum’s list of five innovation killers. Good list, good comments, but, in fact the list applies to far more than innovation—hypercritical as that is.
CEO sloth. There’s no pretty word for failure to focus on innovation by top management. […]
Have you ever wondered what the perfect attitude for a leader is? Not just a top dog leader, but for any person who aspires to lead and, for that matter, every person who lives and breaths.
I recognize it when I see it, know when I’m doing it, and can explain it when I’m coaching, but […]
If this post seems out of place this week then you haven’t been following our b5 Apprentice Challenge. I have to post this today if I intend to stay in the running for (sound of trumpets, roll of drums) an honest-to-goodness b5media T-shirt! Can you think of any better motivation?
And no more team (my team […]
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