CorporateIntel

MARCH 23, 2022

I like leadership teams who are never satisfied with themselves. I think working in a workplace rather than at home all the time is critical to collaboration, communication, and leadership development. I think in-person meetings when well planned improve human connection and help augment trust.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 23, 2016

Andy’s leadership at Intel took us from the 8086 to the Pentium chip, from monochrome to color displays, from floppy to CD disks, from no hard drive to software that could be installed. For many years he co-taught a course in strategy with my dear friend Robert Burgelman at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 6, 2017

We talk about a lot of things: leadership talent, product quality, business model. Every once in a while we do talk again and then I tend to get involved in long stretches of dialogue with team members up and down the line. We talk about creativity and innovation, passion for excellence, dedication to the customer experience.

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CorporateIntel

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Collaborative compromise is guided by consensus, a combining of good ideas around an agreed set of goals articulated and guided by sound leadership. Demand leadership, demand shared vision. Contact your representatives now. Tell them that walking us over they Fiscal Cliff will cost them their authority. Let’s get on with it.

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CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

In the workshop I teach on executive leadership, I spend a lot of time talking about how business is well advised to be pragmatic. You discuss, push back, respectfully argue and create reason to be heard, but to defy the leadership is not only to put the business at risk but also yourself at risk.

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CorporateIntel

JANUARY 14, 2013

In leadership positions, we have to manage available time carefully, our “to-do” lists are rewritten each day, week, month, and year as a series of choices. If you aren’t busy, or if you at least don’t look busy, you’re probably at risk. But do you add real value, especially in light of constant change?

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CorporateIntel

JULY 18, 2018

Between now and then, I can only hope that the nation’s leadership does embrace the gravitas of our current context. I guess that will give me much to write about as we walk forward together through future milestone celebrations. America is an idea more than anything. Promising ideas need to be nurtured, not battered.

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CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 18, 2012

I invite those dear friends who offered their suggestions to include them in the comments below—as well as anyone else who can see what is certain to end badly—as internal politics and stagnating ideas cause those who should know better to obscure the mandate of leadership.

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CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I started writing for The Good Men Project in its second year of life, offering to share some of my thoughts on business, creative leadership, and management also published on my own blog. In its third year I joined the board of directors and became a strategic advisor to the CEO. ” What is this Good Man Project?

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 12, 2015

2) Amateur Leadership : I’ve said it many times in these articles—people don’t quit jobs, they quit bosses. Solution: Think strategy before you think deployment of resources. Ask What and Why before How and When—what customer problem are you solving, and why are you the right company to solve it. Then grind!

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 23, 2023

Recently I was reviewing a difficult business situation with one of our company’s top problem-solvers. The challenge he agreed to tackle was similar to another he had turned around, and I asked him if his approach was likely to follow the same course.

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CorporateIntel

JULY 8, 2015

My life became focused on technology, marketing, sales, finance, and team leadership. Shortly after that I moved to the business side of the computer software publishing model, only occasionally penning a bit of dialogue here and there for a certain Carmen Sandiego.

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CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Contact someone there in a leadership capacity. If not, what tweaks can you make to your daily tasks to bring you personally more in line with your company’s expressed mission? Help a Non-Profit : Find an organization near you whose values and mission you embrace. Tell them you want to help and what skills you have to offer. Address it.

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CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

Musk is doing that, which to me looks like real leadership, and it feels good to applaud him. Stuff that lasts, stuff that can have a lasting impact on growing our economy, stuff that makes scientific dreams into tangible realities, and stuff that in doing so makes investment capital make sense. I don’t care that he is a billionaire.

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CorporateIntel

MAY 24, 2013

I used the blog to pace writing the novel from the blank page through countless rewrites, and sure enough it all came together this year right before Memorial Day.

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CorporateIntel

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Business leadership is managing part for today, part for tomorrow. Will we give them another chance on a bad release of iTunes or a map app? On a rough system upgrade ? Of course we will. Until the promise is broken one time too many, and then we won’t. It’s a plate spinning combination of the big picture and the small details.

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CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. Then I remember who taught me the most about workplace navigation in the early years of my professional career. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 26, 2021

There’s no time like the present to set goals. Here’s a framework I use for myself and those I manage or advise. I generally try to classify projects into three levels of priority before I consider adding resources to anything on deck: Air, Water, and Food.

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CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2017

My wife and I spent this past Saturday morning volunteering for a college service project where we read stories to elementary school children in downtown Los Angeles. We have done this several times before and it is always a rewarding experience, but this time our interaction felt especially poignant.

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CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Facebook moved into a new office complex earlier this year, which Mark Zuckerberg has described as “the largest open floor plan in the world.” ” With over 400,000 square feet, it is reported not to offer a single private office.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 4, 2016

Last month we launched a new web video series at The Good Men Project. We call it Good Men Project Dreams: Conversations with Entrepreneurs. I am honored to host the series, and tremendously enjoying the opportunity to delve into the minds of energetic business leaders who make the daunting choice to go out on their own.

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CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Some people focus on dreaming. Some focus on doing. The ones who find a way to bridge the gap make change happen. Every once in a while, as Steve Jobs would say, they put a dent in the universe. Many people elicit feedback. A few of them take something away from that feedback and apply it to what they are dreaming and doing.

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CorporateIntel

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I try hard in this blog to leave out my personal politics, which isn’t all that hard to do since I consider the topic of business innovation and its various threads to be about as nonpartisan a subject as there should be. ” Together we create our economy, our opportunities, and our experiment in progress called democracy.

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CorporateIntel

MARCH 5, 2012

In his absurdist play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead , playwright Tom Stoppard invents any number of ways for the courtiers to pass the time while Hamlet comes and goes: Rosencrantz : Do you want to play questions? Guildenstern : How do you play that? Rosencrantz : You have to ask a question. Guildenstern : Statement. One – Love.

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CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Teddy Roosevelt — who legend has it never wanted to be called by that name — is back in the news, at least to the extent that we are finding reason to quote him of late.

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