Aug
31
Inphonic
Listen to people and make them feel like part of a team.
“One of the most powerful leadership techniques that I’ve learned over the course of my career is to listen to people and make them feel like part of a team. Far too often, companies make employees feel like a cog in a [...]
Aug
30
Ingenium Corporation
If you don’t leave room for people to risk and fail, they won’t achieve what you want them to achieve.
“No matter how upset a leader may be with anyone, that person should never leave the presence of that leader without their dignity intact. This requires that leaders always consider the impact of [...]
Aug
29
Infineon Technologies
Dare to be different.
“Dare to be different,” urges Ulrich Schumacher of Infineon. “It is easy for managers to simply administer their responsibilities and meet expectations. Real leadership, however, requires a pioneering spirit and the courage to take risks. You’ve got to have the competitive drive to take on challenges that other colleagues [...]
Aug
28
Imation Corp.
Lead by example.
“The most important leadership technique I know of is to lead by example,” says William Monahan of Imation, specialists in data storage. “We hear a lot about ‘walk the talk,’ ‘get out front,’ and so on, but we don’t always see as much of it as would be effective.
“Everyone [...]
Aug
27
IKEA North America
The greatest privilege of leadership is to guide people toward the path to achieve great things.
IKEA’s Pernille Lopez says that one thing she has learned as a leader is that it’s important to have courage and dare to be yourself, “To take risks, step out of the comfort zone and lead [...]
Aug
26
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
We have a responsibility to redefine the role of the corporation on the world stage.
“As leaders, now more than ever before, we have a responsibility to redefine the role of the corporation on world stage, and to leverage our ability to impact individuals, companies, communities, nations for the better,” says Carly Fiorina, [...]
Aug
25
HCA
Surround yourself with good people who balance out your weaknesses with their strengths.
“My most important leadership principle was surrounding myself with good people who balanced out my strengths and weaknesses,” says Thomas Frist, MD, who in 1968 cofounded HCA in Nashville, Tennessee.
“For instance, my strength was not operations. So I hired Jack [...]
Aug
24
Hair Club For Men (Hcm)
Realize your own shortcomings.
“What helped me was one powerful idea—to realize my own shortcomings and tap into the creativity and expertise of others to fill the gaps in my own knowledge and abilities.”
When Sy Sperling started the Hair Club for Men, he had a partner who tried to [...]
Aug
23
Hain Celestial Group
Communicate.
“Hain Celestial is the world’s largest natural food and organic product-company. We have literally gone from zero sales and zero employees, to approximately $700 million in annual sales with 2,000 employees,” says CEO Irwin Simon.
“My most powerful leadership strategy is to communicate. I have no hidden agendas. We have four [...]
Aug
22
Guilford Capital Corporation (GCI)
Lead from the front.
Tranum Fitzpatrick of GCI believes that the most powerful of all the elements of leadership is to “lead from the front.”
“To me this means that—always keeping in mind that you are the leader of a team and not an actor—you must:
Determine the business principles which [...]