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Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Lays Out His Guiding Principles For The Turnaround
Article:Yahoo was without a permanent CEO the whole quarter, having fired Carol Bartz in the Fall.
The board spent most of the quarter trying to figure out whether it should sell a big stake in Yahoo to private equity or sell its own stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. Or do both.
Yahoo finally hired a CEO earlier this month – Scott Thompson, a former president at PayPal. Then Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang stepped down from the board.
Six Strategy Insights RIM's New CEO Can Use
Article:How can RIM (and other companies in the same boat) chart effective strategy in uncertainty? A look at root causes of failed and successful efforts gives a clear view.
Perhaps Thorsten Heins has longed to run a big, public company. But probably the dream didn't look like this.
Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Having pioneered the smartphone industry with its Blackberry, RIM is dangerously adrift.
Branding Leadership
Executive Insight Video:DeLisa Alexander, Executive Vice President & Chief People Officer at Redhat shares the process of information gathering, story telling, and interviewing it took to come up with a coherent, authentic leadership brand statement and employee value proposition.
- Learn how Redhat differentiates their leaders from everyone else.
- Promote an honest view of the leadership/employer brand (no sugar coating).
- Get candidates with a good cultural fit to opt-in with gusto to the employee value proposition
Change Management in Health Care
Article:This article introduces health care managers to the theories and philosophies of John Kotter and William Bridges, 2 leaders in the evolving field of change management. For Kotter, change has both an emotional and situational component, and methods for managing each are expressed in his 8-step model (developing urgency, building a guiding team, creating a vision, communicating for buy-in, enabling action, creating short-term wins, don’t let up, and making it stick).
Bridges deals with change at a more granular, individual level, suggesting that change within a health care organization means that individuals must transition from one identity to a new identity when they are involved in a process of change. According to Bridges, transitions occur in 3 steps: endings, the neutral zone, and beginnings. The major steps and important concepts within the models of ach are addressed, and examples are provided to demonstrate how health care managers can actualize the models within their health care organizations.
The Change Leadership That Sustainability Demands
Article:Sustainability initiatives can't be driven through an organization the way other changes can. They have three distinct stages, and each requires different organizational capabilities and leadership competencies.
Three teenage girls are at a shopping mall looking for sunscreen. It's an impulse purchase, and it has to be an all-natural choice. They think they've found what they're looking for at one store, but on the way to the register one of the girls takes out her phone and swipes it by the barcode of the product they've selected. Moments later, as she's pulling out a credit card at the register, her iPhone announces an incoming e-mail. It's a short message informing her that the item she is about to purchase contains compounds that are linked to the decimation of coral reefs. Moreover, the plastic container is difficult to recycle. Because her phone has pinpointed her location via GPS, she also learns that another store in the mall carries a "greener" sunscreen that has neither of those two problems. The girls leave the register and make a beeline for the other store.