1. Listen to Steve
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

Just amazing speech at Stanford. http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html

2. When Will We Ever Learn?
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

One compensation and its role in designing leadership and management systems: When Will We Ever Learn? | The Corner Office | BNET I agree with the three points made: Nobody cares about the past, as ...

3. Engineering Windows 7 : Engineering 7: A view from the bottom
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

The concept of a “Triad” is remarkable close to the approach we took at the CDEX approach at Whirlpool. Engineering Windows 7 : Engineering 7: A view from the bottom In essence, structuring teams along ...

4. End of an era: Dell may dump its factories
(Thoughts/on Innovation)

... and less than 1.5 kilograms tells the right story for me. The deeper story: sustainability of the core of an innovation. If there is no way to maintain leadership, it is not innovation but a One-Hit-Wonder. ...

5. How to Get the Truth From References
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

Now this is a really good list of questions! What did he learn during his time with your company? If you could give him a single career suggestion, what would it be? If the reference managed the client: ...

6. On the Work of Leaders
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

... leadership composed of average human beings." Peter Drucker A few years back, I heard the (then horrifying) statement: "We have to achieve extraordinary results with less than ordinary people". I ...

7. Engineers sparse on the ground (German article)
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

Here is the next one, right on top of the last post I did. Ingenieure: Firmen haben 70 000 Jobs zu vergeben - Fachkräftemangel - FOCUS Online It claims that there are more than 95000 open positions ...

8. High-Tech Crybabies Head for the Crib | BNET
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

Now here is a refreshing take on leadership: High-Tech Crybabies Head for the Crib | Technology Industry Blog | BNET I have to say, it does annoy me when anybody speaks down on anybody of their team. ...

9. 5 Ways to Keep Your Team Intact
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

... but it has to be a rarity. The leadership challenge here is to have the touch to prevent abuse. Get them invested in the business Jalal suggests to go beyond equity and have the staff participate in cash ...

10. Strong Government
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

In her manifesto for the Entrepreneur Country event tomorrow, Julie Meyer put together a manifesto. One of the items is the following: That the bigger the State grows, the weaker the people become – ...

11. On Execution: interview with CIO of NetApp
(Thoughts/on Execution)

... has been identified and cleaned up, the top leadership of the company can decide on a rating framework, rate all opportunities, and then execute the top ones until money/time/resources run out. The advantage: ...

12. The Work of Leaders
(Thoughts/on Leadership)

... be the hardest, since most organizations do not really spell this out beyond labels: leadership, risk taking, that kind of BS. It really does not help the individual in getting better. What worked for ...

13. Innovation and the Core
(Thoughts/on Innovation)

... the light of basic attitudes towards the business. Great tool to understand the impact of fundamental leadership decisions.  ...

14. Leadership
(You/Your Challenges)

You might have questions like: What is Level-5 Leadership? How can I become a better leader? What's the difference between a leader and a manager? In short: 7 years as Fortune 500 executive: $8 Million/pa ...

15. Decision Making
(You/Your Challenges)

... executive leadership for product development: 4 multi-million $ business cases How to improve decision making? In my experience, this comes down to tools and culture. Tools are relatively straight-forward, ...

16. Managing People
(You/Your Challenges)

... in developing and attracting talent. Further confirmation was given to me when I was formally recognizued for my people leadership skills. The area I worked on the hardest to improve was "communications". ...

17. 2005 Leading the Whirlpool Enterprise
(Documentation/Degrees)

With Jeff Fettig's appointment as CEO, Whirlpool undertook a rather remarkable project: to give every executive in the company formal training on people leadership and development. I participated in this ...

18. 2004 Leadership Recognition
(Documentation/Awards)

... an opportunity to recognize a manager they have reported to who is an example of leadership excellence. There were six categories through which managers could be recognized. These included: Coaching and ...

19. 2004-07-13 WHR Portal on DHL Conference
(In Public/In the Press)

This article was published on the Whirlpool Intranet Portal about the Digital Home Leadership conference, an industry conference I designed and sponsored within the Internet Home Alliance. I had asked ...

20. International Management
(The Person/Skills)

... or a Chinese. I know how to work remotely, and how to get others to adopt that leadership style as well. I know how to travel, spend more than 100,000 miles per year on a plane without missing a beat. ...