Leadership
Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love on Finding Your Passion at Work
How to build a deeper connection between what we're paid to do and what we love to do.
March 12, 2010 / Podcast # 10-11
Smart managers know how to engage their employees. The best way to do that is to engage their passions and access what they care about. That gets employees to care about their work and learn to enjoy it. Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love have devised a system for how to determine what drives employees’ passions. Read more…
Claire Wyckoff and Nat Stoddard on Selecting the Right Leader
a new approach to prevent top-level failures.
January 15, 2010 / Podcast # 10-03Leadership failures damage or even destroy companies every day. The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit, Details: A Revolutionary Process For Selecting Executives Based On Years Of Consulting For Some Of America’s Largest Companies, by Nat Stoddard and Claire Wyckoff offers a new approach to eliminate the leadership failures that plague so many companies around the world today. The Right Leader introduces the “Match-Fit Model” and explains how it reduces the risks and costs of executive failure by changing the factors that are considered and by taking into account the cultural dynamics at play in any organization.
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Jon Bidwell on Driving Innovation from Within
How a conservative culture gave way to radical innovation from within.
January 8, 2010 / Podcast # 10-02
When Jon Bidwell became the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos.’s first ever new chief innovation officer, his mission was to increase the speed, pace and profitability of Chubb’s products and services, involving a global network of 10,000 employees. Bidwell realized that the best way to generate innovation as quickly as possible was to tap into the company’s 10,000 employees, those who knew from first-hand experience what could make the organization work better. The conservative culture at Chubb gave way to a radical program that tapped into the company’s internal resources, generating thousands of ideas for organizational improvement. Read more…
Peter Firestein on Building Success through Reputation
Reputation matters—now more than ever.
January 1, 2010 / Podcast # 10-01
Public opinion in the wake of the financial meltdown has revealed the public’s abiding mistrust of corporations and the executives who run them. Scrutiny from the Internet and 24-hour cable TV offers companies no place to hide; so they must proactively seek the confidence of their shareholders and the public. In today’s economy, reputation is a prime factor in a corporation’s bottom line.
Peter Firestein presents Seven Strategies of Reputation Leadership in his book Crisis of Character, offering a fail-proof way for executives to immunize themselves and their companies against the breakdowns that can happen to even the most prominent organizations. Using real-life examples (from Merck and Citigroup to Hewlett-Packard and Coca-Cola), Crisis of Character presents concrete ways executives can shape the internal corporate culture to support their business interests.
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Michael Watkins on Navigating Your Career Transition
Will you sink . . . or swim?
December 4, 2009 / Podcast # 09-49
Transitions into new roles are the crucibles in which leaders get their toughest tests, and they’re the defining factor in professional careers today. Yet far too often, leaders fail to transition effectively into new roles. The resulting costs are high, for your career and the organization.
In Your Next Move, leadership-transition guru Michael Watkins shows how leaders can survive and thrive in all the major transitions you will face during your career, including promotion, on-boarding into a new organization, and making an international move. With real-life examples and case studies, he illustrates the defining hurdles associated with each type of transition.
Michael D. Watkins is the cofounder of Genesis Advisers, a Newton, Massachusetts-based leadership development firm specializing in transition acceleration programs and coaching. He is the author of The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels (Harvard Business Press, 2003).
For additional training on this topic, consider these AMA seminars:
* Making the Transition to Management
* Making the Transition from Staff Member to Supervisor
* Fundamentals of Sales Management for the Newly Appointed Sales Manager
To learn more, read these AMACOM Books:
* Reinvention by Brian Tracy
* The AMA Handbook of Leadership by Marshall Goldsmith, John Baldoni, Sarah McArthur