I moderated a panel with Latin America CEOs exploring how businesses are leveraging shared value models. How CEOs must prepare for a new world. How the bottom of the pyramid needs to be solved; that shared value models of applying your core business capabilities to solving the BOP poverty dilemma are an absolute priority. It
Working with entrepreneurs and startups brings some strong perspectives that big business can leverage: 1. Cash is king. Many businesses have failed because they ran out of cash, not because they were losing money. In big business we look at ratios – % outstanding receivables over 30,60,90 days, SGA as a % of revenue etc
LinkedIn CEO, Jeff Weiner in an interview defined his top 10 leadership lessons. One was “Understand what makes you happy”. His 5 keys to happiness: Stay in the moment. Step back and become a spectator to your own thoughts. It’s more important to be loving than to be right. Go out of your way to
I read a great Harvard Business Review Piece called “The Making of a Corporate Athlete”. (see my reading list) The article talks to the success criteria of athletes and how many of those criteria can apply to us as we manage our business and personal priorities. One of the premises it makes is that athletes
The founder of my boarding school, John Corlette, has this to say on the goals of education Whilst we agree that the ability to earn a good living is a necessary and important accomplishment we do not regard this as the goal of education but as a by-product of it. We believe that the goal
Developing a strategic plan is part art, part science. Dot every i, cross every t, and you’ve likely created a prescriptive set of tactics that have boxed out all the flexibility and potential that comes with responding to opportunity and the inevitable change that gets thrown our way. This approach reminds me of Rennaissance landscapes;
Take a fresh route. I traveled by train from Frankfurt to Zurich for the last 12 months, the first few trips being exciting as you look out of the trains window admiring all the new landscapes. Then routine sets in, seasons change but nothing else seems to look different. Again all seems to become routine.
Motivation is a key attribute of leaders. Driving and encouraging your organization to achieve, to attain the vision is a critical part of a leader’s agenda. definition: ambition, inspiration action,catalyst, desire, disposition, drive, encouragement, fire, get up and go,hunger, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive,incitement, inclination, inducement, instigation, interest, kick*, motive, persuasion, predetermination, predisposition, provocation, push, reason,
Taking Ownership for Change – the Empathy Imperative When I wrote my book, 50 Words, its started as a little project, a gift for my two sons. The premise was if one could only save 50 words in the English language, which words would they be? It was my way of starting an important conversation
11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read by John Coleman | 12:00 PM October 11, 2012 Comments (211) Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. One of the most common
