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Alan Mullaly on Leadership

07 Monday Sep 2009

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A feature I have enjoyed reading in the New York Times is the “Corner Office”. Every week, Adam Bryant has a conversation with a business leader on management and leadership.

This week the interview was with Alan Mullaly, the President & CEO of Ford Motor since 2006. For most of his career, Mullaly worked for Boeing. I see that Ford has been the only US auto major to have done well recently.

I found his views to be matter of fact, fairly simple yet meaningful. It underscored to me the point that in business while many things change- the way to deal with them seldom do. It is still important to understand your business, your customer, his/her needs, and  learn how to get the best out of your people.

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David Ogilvy’s Advice on Business

26 Sunday Jul 2009

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For many of my generation, David Ogilvy was the last word in advertising. He was quite easily the biggest advertising guru of his time. Mr. Ogilvy has been dead for over a decade now, so I was very interested to see an article by Patricia Sellars in Fortune about David Ogilvy’s best advice for business.

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Wipro & Its Two CEOs

24 Friday Jul 2009

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Many raised their eye brows when Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro announced about a year ago that the Indian IT giant would henceforth have not one but two CEOs. Has the experiement worked? So it seems from this interview with Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani in the Economic Times. Continue reading →

Do You Need a Career Coach?

09 Thursday Apr 2009

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Debra Benton, Executive Coaching, executive leadership

People have different reasons for looking towards executive coachs for their professional expertise. In a recent blog post, Debra Benton speaks of why most people would look to get an executive coach in ” Instead of a Face-lift, Choose a Career Coach “.

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See For Yourself

30 Monday Mar 2009

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A few questions for those in CXO positions amongst my readers. Do you have a handle on what exactly goes on in your organization? Do you really know what people feel about the way things are done? Do you know what it is to be far removed from the corner suite and listen to the grapevine for rumours? The best way to find answers for these questions is to see for yourself.

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Prescriptions for Success.

21 Saturday Mar 2009

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CCMP, Executive Coaching, executive leadership, Greg Brenneman

“We’ve gotten so used to every generation doing better economically than their parents. Are our kids going to do better than we’ve done? I hope so, but I’m not sure. So it seems like we ought to tell them that socioeconomic wealth is not the only, or even the most important, metric of personal happiness.” This extract is from an interesting interview with Greg Brenneman in the New York Times. Greg is the Chairman of CCMP Capital, a premier private equity firm.

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