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			"Some Leaders are Born, Others Are Made," Says Karlin Sloan, Executive Coach 12 (TRUE or FALSE) Leadership Lessons From the Bridge of the Starship Enterprise 500 Largest US Companies Will Lose 50% of Their Senior Management in 5 Years A Generation Y Leader Inspires by Enabling Others to Be Leaders A Team Groups Around an Informal Leader against Its New Boss About Core Partners About the club About the CLub Accuracy, Reliability and Credibility of Information Adrian Marley (DHL) Recommends: Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story Of The Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny Adrian Marley (DHL): "For Me, There Are Three Things that Are the Foundation of Everything I Do: Quality, Respect and Humor" Adrian Marley (DHL): "One of the Things I Hate Most of All Are Those People Who If You Give Them Authority Abuse It" Adrian Marley (DHL): "Problems Rise When Somebody Thinks They Are Better Than Everybody Else Because of the Size of Their Degree or Their MBA" Adrian Marley, Managing Director, DHL Express CIS & South East Europe Alex Gourlay (Alliance Boots): "I Get Up Every Single Morning Really Unsatisfied With how I Perform" Alex Gourlay (Boots): "Don't Pretend You Have the Answer When You Don't" Alex Gourlay, Chief Executive of the Health & Beauty Division, Alliance Boots Amazon.com: Earth's Biggest Anything Store Driven by “Two-Pizza Teams” Amazon’s Pursuit of Innovation Pays Off With 40% Share Price Gain Amount of Work Makes the Job Seem Impossible to Be Done An Employee is Responsible for a Serious Accident Anatoly Karachinsky, President, IBS Group Anatoly Karachinsky: "Money Is a Necessary but Insufficient Condition for Success in Business" Andrei Kosogov, Member of the Supervisory Board of Directors of Alfa Group Consortium Andrew Cranston (KPMG): A Huge Part of Being a Leader is to Bring Energy to the Situation Andrew Cranston (KPMG): For Us there Will not Be any Business Without People Believing in Our Integrity Andrew Cranston, Senior Partner, KPMG in Russia and the CIS Andrew S. Grove, Co-Founder, Intel Corp. Andrey Kononchuk: "Respect for People Is Our Position" Andrey Yanovsky, CEO, Nidan Soki Andy Pearson, Chairman and CEO, Tricon Global Restaurants Inc. Apple Inc.: Made of Passion, Style and Innovation Arkady Dvorkovich, Aide to the President of Russian Federation: "Today Major Task of the State Officials Is to Demolish the Barricades between Them and the rest of People" Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich, Aide to the President of Russian Federation Artem Bektemirov, CEO and co-owner, Pharmacy Chain 36.6 Artem Bektemirov: To Communicate Vision You Need to Have Passion Arthur D. Levinson, President and CEO, Genentech As Gen Y Continues to Enter the Workforce, Their Day Jobs Will No Longer Define Who They Are Austin Kimm (Renaissance Life): "A Life Insurance Company Makes Money over a Long Period of Time Unlike Motor Insurance Which Is One Year" Austin Kimm, President for Renaissance-Life, recommends: The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking by Barbara Minto Beware of Fake Leadership Bill Gates, Co-Founder and Chairman, Microsoft Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell Top List of IT Influencers Birger Steen (Microsoft) Examines a Case on Values and Comments on the Future of the Russian Software Industry Birger Steen (Microsoft): "Judgement Over a Person Is the Only Thing that Never Dies" Birger Steen (Microsoft): 'If you are a B-person you can hire an A-person and you are able to learn to be an A-person yourself' Birger Steen, General Manager, Microsoft Russia Birger Steen: Setting The Right Objective Blake P. Sallé (Cisco) Recommends: The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron Blake P. Sallé, Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Emerging Technologies Group, Cisco Blake Sallé (Cisco Systems): "It Is Very Important To Make Sure That You Establish Your Values And You Lead Your Team to Adhere to Them" Blake Sallé (Cisco Systems): "Our Job Is to Create an Environment in Which People Can Be Successful" Blake W. Nordstrom, President, Nordstrom, Incorporated Blog: Leading from Behind and the Magic of Ubuntu Blog: New Leader's Voodoo Kit Books Books on Leadership Boris Volpe, SAP CIS Brad Bird: Rats should crawl or how to deal with creative employees Break up with Close Associate Building a Team Burning Business Necessity Probes the Company’s Basic Values Business Cartoons. Lighthearted Look at Leadership Business Cartoons: Lighthearted Look at Leadership Can Howard Schultz Turn Starbucks Around? Capital International Buys $175 Million Stake in Unimilk Career Turning Point of Choosing Between Several Opportunities CEOs Keep More Literature and Poetry Books than Business Bestsellers in Their Private Libraries Champions and Inspirers Choose People, Not Companies Chris Huggett (3COM): "People Need to Feel Happy about what They're Doing" Chris Huggett (3COM): Seeks Balance in Business Deals and Life Alike Christian Kremer (BMW): By Challenging Your Partner You’re Challenging Yourself Christian Kremer President of BMW Russia Comanies Need To Invest Long Term To Overcome Talent Shortage Blocking Corporate Growth Community Rules Community Update August 16 Community Update August 30 Community Update July 11 Community Update July 11 - Russian Version Companies Are Used to Edit Wikipedia to Mend Their Online Reputation Companies Tend to Use Mentoring Programs to Develop Future Leaders Companies Worldwide Face Leadership Crisis - IBM Study Company’s Usual Meetings Are Unproductive and Formal Competencies Framework of Rudolf Giuliani Competencies Frameworks of Jack Welch Competency Story 1 Competency Story 2 Content Rules and Disclaimer Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy Corporate Membership Corporate Subscription to Good2Work Leadership Lessons David Levy Thomas, President Volvo Car Russia David Pearson (Deloitte): "People for the Most Part Want to Go in a Direction And as a Leader, I Think, It’s Critical That You Provide the Vision for Them" David Pearson (Deloitte): "People Want to Think That Everything Is Black or White And, as You Know, It’s Not" David Pearson (Deloitte): "We Are Always Doing Our Best to Help Develop People, So They Can Accomplish More Than They Even Dream They Can Accomplish" David Pearson, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte CIS David Thomas (Volvo): "I'm Not Better than Anybody Else in the Organization" David Thomas (Volvo): If You Are a Democratic Company You Also Have to Listen to the Organization Dee Cooper (Virgin Atlantic): "I Believe in the Future and I Believe in Change" Dee Cooper (Virgin Atlantic): "I Think We Probably Get Our Hands a Bit Dirtier and More Detailed Than Other Leaders". Dee Cooper (Virgin Atlantic): "You Have to be Clear if the Avenue is Not Worth Exploring Further" Dee Cooper, the Director of Product & Service at Virgin Atlantic Airways Dee Hock, Founder of VISA International Dee Hock, the Founder of VISA International Deloitte and Other Big 4 Companies Are at the Top of The Best Places to Work for Graduates Dennis Hopple (CBSD/Thunderbird): "Communication to Me Is a Two-way Street" Dennis Hopple (CBSD/Thunderbird): "I Continue to Think about Long Term Because All Business Is Cyclical, What Goes Up Will Eventually Come Down" Dennis Hopple (CBSD/Thunderbird): "Whenever We Are Going Through Change Leadership Is about Giving People a Straight Story" Dennis L. Hopple, President, CBSD/Thunderbird Russia Derk Sauer (IMSM): Give Creative People Enough Room to Be Stars Derk Sauer (IMSM): “The Main Thing about Management Is to Make Things Which Seem to Be Complicated Very Simple” Derk Sauer, Chairman of Supervisory Board of the Publishing House Independent Media Sanoma Magazines Dimitar Alexiev (Heineken): I'm Proud to Be Green Dimitar Alexiev (Heineken): Mobilizing the Organization Starts from Making It a Part of Everybody's Understanding. Disclaimer and Participants’ Conduct Dmitry Konnov (Universal Music Group): "Relationship with an Artist Is like Family" Dmitry Konnov (Universal Music Group): "There Is No Such Music Project that can Manage Itself, It’s Like Trying to Treat a Disease Using Only Wikipedia" Dr. Axel Kniehl (Whirlpool CIS):"I Truly Believe the Current Booming Generation of Young Upcoming Managers in Russia is Quite Good" Dr. Axel Kniehl (Whirlpool CIS):"I will not compromise on trust and integrity just for the sake of making some additional money" During the Last Decade Britain Emerged as a World Leader in the Knowledge Economy eBay: Built on the Belief in People’s Basic Goodness Eco-Friendly Policies Help Companies Attract Young Talent and Increase Productivity Employee Doesn’t Fit for the Job Employees are Demotivated by Corporate Bureaucracy Employees Are Skeptical About You as Their New Boss Employees’ Loyalty to an Organization Has Loosened Last Years, Survey Revealed Employers Implement New Policies to Accommodate Gen Y Workers Erik Koebe, President of Credit Agricole CIB ZAO Esther Dyson: "On Wall Street People Think that if You Just Throw Money at Companies or You Make Mergers, You're Going to Build Something New But You’re Not – You're Just Throwing Money at Something" Esther Dyson, Independent Investor and Writer Esther Dyson: "Once I spent six months training to be a cosmonaut in Star City..." Facebook's Microsoft Deal May Boost Options Prices, Hurting Ability to Lure Top Talent Facebook: the Most Widely Available Product of Harvard Father’s no More a Leader Filip Kegels (Danone): "I Could Not Function Without Enthusiasm, Energy and Dynamism" Filip Kegels (Danone): "It's Much Better to Say "I Have a Problem, Let's Try to Fix It" than to Hide the Problem Until It Explodes in Your Face" Filip Kegels (Danone): "We Should Really Give People that Are Working in Your Company the Perspective Why They Should Get Up Every Morning and Start Working Very Hard for Your Company besides Just Getting a Salary" Filip Kegels, General Manager Fresh Dairy Products Eastern Europe, Danone Find Out About Your Leadership Traits at Good2Work! Firing Softly Forbes Commentary on Russia Today English Language TV Channel Forbes published this article in November 2007. I found some interesting points in it on Spitzer’s behavior. Fortune Published Interview with Chrysler's CEO Nardelli and Top Execs François Goupil de Bouillé, Managing Director, Nissan Motor RUS Free Video Lecture Podcasts From Top Universities Gary Hamel: We Are on the Threshold of a Post-Managerial Society GE Doubles ‘Green’ Sales In Two Years Gen Y'ers Are Conservative in Their Lifestyle Gen Yers Are Starting Businesses Earlier and at a Faster Rate than 35 to 44-year-olds Gene Klann (Center for Creative Leadership): "During the Time of Crisis – That’s when Leaders Actually Need to Stand Up and Provide Leadership" Gene Klann (Center for Creative Leadership): "If You Realize that You May Have a Difficult Time Leading in a Crisis Situation than Maybe You Should Not Have Yourself in a Leadership or Management Position because People Are Going to Count on You" Gene Klann (Center for Creative Leadership): "If You Want to Make Sure You Achieve Your Mission – Take Care of Your People" Gene Klann, Senior Faculty Member, Center for Creative Leadership Genentech, the Best Company to Work For in 2006 (according to Fortune), lets its people earn with passion and joy General Electric Leads in the Top Companies for Leaders 2007 Global Ranking George Chumburidze: "The Most Important Skill Is to Understand What Weight the Person Can Bear" Georgy Gens, President of Lanit Group of Companies Georgy Gens: "I Discuss Absolutely Everything with My Executives Even if Something Is Obvious Enough for Me" Gleb Arkhangelsky: How talking to my boss helped me understand that my hobby is my vocation Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Good2Work Update and Offline Event Google: Making the World a Better Place Can Be a Good Way to Earn Growth in Starbucks Sales Revenue has Slowed Gurus Proclaim the Next Era of Leadership. Do We Need the New Breed of Hero? Hannes Shariputra Chopra (Allianz Rosno): "Behave in Such a Way that if People Copy Your Behavior You Shouldn't Be Ashamed" Hannes Shariputra Chopra (Allianz Rosno): "Micromanagement Is not a Negative Word for Me" Hannes Shariputra Chopra, Head of Allianz Eurasia, CEO - Chairman of the Board of OJSC IC ROSNO Hewitt Associates Conducted the ‘Top Companies for Leaders’ Study How Andrey Kosogov Formed a New Team When No Investment Professionals Were Available in Russia How Andrey Yanovsky Moved from a Global Corporation to a Young Russian Company How Andy Grove Met a Man Who Learned to Manage His Own Career How Andy Pearson at Age 76 Transformed Himself into a New Kind of Boss How Art Levinson Didn’t Give Way to Panic and Produced a Billion Dollar Blockbuster How Art Levinson IncitedGenentech’s Management Team Dressed As The Six Dwarfs And Snow White To Rush Into Their Archrival’s Lobby To Make A Picture How Art Levinson Prompted Genentech Top Managers to Play a Trick on Incoming Research Chief Richard Scheller How Bill Gates Learned To Be Alert To Bad News How Bill Hewlett Cut the Padlock off the Lab Stock Door on a HP plant How Birger Steen Lost His Internet Company and Came in Microsoft How Boris Volpe Had Not Agreed With His Bosses How Branson Appreciated Reality Show Participant’s Ability To Calculate Risk How Branson Launched Virgin Records as a Shop and Then as a Record Lable How Branson Spent A Night in Prison and Got Strongest Incentive to Make His Company Grow Fast How Branson’s Virgin Group Went Public and Then Got Back Private to Save Its Reputation How Brin and Page Retained Control Over Google After First Big Outside Investment How Dee Hock Acted When the Owner Did not Keep his Word and Refused to Share Profit How Dee Hock Dug in the Garbage Cans to Find a Lost Deposit How Dee Hock Invented the New Credit Card Common Worldwide Name with All His Staff Help How Dee Hock Plunged into the Ocean to Pursue the Offended Important Partner How Dee Hock Took Up “Retirement on the Job” How Dee Hock “Borrowed” Bank Executives to work under Clerical Employees Supervision How Dell Made More Money than His School Teacher and Learned to Segment the Market How Fred Deluca Found Success By Way of the Submarine Sandwich How Gerstner Listened to a Retired IBMer’s Advice and Hired Sales Specialists How Gerstner Supported an Employee Who Was Regarded as a Misfit, and It Payed Off How Google Guys Solved the Problem of Google’s Presence in China How Hock Saw Spontaneous Order out of Chaos Fighting at Crisis Night with Office Machines How Hock’s Boss Let Him Work Full Time in Public Interest Retaining his Position as VP How HP chose human oriented philosophy and succeed How I Joined Alfa Via Newspaper Ad How IBM Board Member Jim Burke Persuaded Gerstner to Put His Career At Stake How Ingvar Kamprad Laid The Basis of The IKEA concept How Jack Welch by Hard Work Won over Product Flaw That Nearly Ruined His Career How Jack Welch Put His Superior on Trial Period and Learned about Differentiation How Jack Welch Turned Meetings with Wall Street's Analysts into Intellectual Duels How Jack Welch Used Bad Example Method to “Kick” a Top Performer When Needed How Jack Welch Won the GE CEO Race by Doing What He Thought Was Right How Jeff Bezos Chose His Own Business instead of Successful Career as an Employee How Jeff Bezos Flew to Japan to Deliver a Customer’s Order How Jobs Enticed the President of PepsiCo To Become His CEO of Apple How Lou Gerstner Fired an Executive Who Could Not Make Unpopular Decisions How Lou Gerstner Got IBM To Dance How Lou Gerstner Made His First Steps as the IBM Boss How Lou Gerstner Used His McKinsey Consultant Experience in IBM How Michael Dell Decided to Start His Own Business How Michael Dell Learned to Delegate How Nordstrom Saved Family Business Giving “Nice People” the Freedom to Dump the Rules How Omidyar Received Financial Backing from an Investor without a Business Plan How Omidyar's Internet Service Provider Pushed Him to Make Money on His Hobby Project How Page and Brin Changed Web Ads Completely but Stuck to Their Principles How Pearson Helped Disgruntled COO to Become Tricon’s Most Productive Top Executive How Pierre Omidyar Brought Money into eBay by Hiring the Right Person as CEO How Pierre Omidyar Created a Web Cite to Help His Girlfriend and It Grew into eBay How Pierre Omidyar Found The Most Effective Way to Solve Disputes Between eBay Users How Pierre Omidyar ‘Squeezes Himself Through the Door of Opportunity’ How Resignation of a Key Executive Made Andrey Kosogov Reconsider the Whole Business How Ricardo Semler Fired a Tough Leader How Rudolf Giuliani Became "America's Mayor" on 9/11/2001 How Rudolph Giuliani Learned to Start with Small Things and Achieve the Larger Result How Sam Walton in His Early Days Learned One of the Leadership Secrets How Sammons Saved Rite Aid through Giving Its Employees the Feeling that They Are Valued How Schultz Talked to 242 Potential Investors and 217 of Them Said “No” How Sergey Brin and Larry Page Hired Erich Schmidt, Not Wishing To Hire Anybody At All How Sergey Petrov left the Soviet Army to start his own business How Steve Jobs Broke Macintosh Keyboard Yearning to Restore Apple in His Own Way How Steve Jobs Hired a Star Salesman from IBM Just Showing Him a Monitor Stand How Steve Jobs Hired the Key Man for the iPod Project How Steve Jobs Made Young Apple a Client of the High-Statured Ad Agency How Steve Jobs Talked Bill Gates into Investing in Apple How Steve Jobs Was Fired From Apple and Entered His Life’s Best Period How Steven Spielberg Got His First Job How Teenage Jobs Called Bill Hewlett to Order Parts and Got Summer Job How Walton Was ‘Kicked out of Town’ by Landlord who Wanted to Give His Store to a Son How We Conduct Our Interviews How We Leveraged the Team Effort to Select the Name for This Project How Welch after a Serious Accident Learned about Importance of Encouragement How Welch Personally Learned a New Method to Apply It at GE How Welch Put a Right Person to Head GE Medical Business and Won over Competitor How ‘New Boss’ Andrey Yanovsky Came to Agreement with the Informal Leader and Kept the Whole Team How “Finance For Little Folks” Helped Welch to Turn GE Credit into Big GE Capital Howard Schultz, Chief Global Strategist and Chairman of Starbucks Howard Schultz, Chief Global Strategist and Chairman, Starbucks IBM and O2 Teams Are Among Finalists for the Personnel Today Magazine’s Talent Management Award IBM Launches Center for CIO Leadership iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business If You're Productive, What’s Your Price? Igor Salita, CEO, MEDSI Group Igor Salita: How I Had to Investigate a Robbery Igor Salita: Revolution in Mars Igor Salita: The Price of the White Label Igor Salita: The Risky Appointment Ilias Aliev, HR Director, Rosgosstrakh Ilias Aliev: The Question Should Destroy The Brain In the International War for Talent, Cities Will Combat to Attract the Best Talent from Generation Y India Will Be Human Capital Mine for the Next 50 Years, KPMG Partner Argues Indian IT Companies Create ‘Shadow Talent Pool’ Information about the Partner: VTB24 Ingvar Kamprad, Founder, IKEA Innovative Communications for Leaders to Inform, Encourage and Build Trust Intel Studies Russian Middle Class, Aiming to Customize its Products for Russian Country-Homes Investment-Advisory Firms Face a Talent Shortage along with an Inflow of Clients Investors' Favorite Female CEOs Is U.S. heading to recession? Dean advises MBA students: Prepare to engage in some missionary selling, to help employers discover your talent. Ivan Svitek (Home Credit) recommends: "Winning" by Jack Welch Ivan Svitek (Home Credit): "Only if You Have the Personal Chemistry between People You Will Be Able to Work Together" Ivan Svitek (Home Credit): "Trust Your Intuition" Ivan Svitek, Chief Executive Officer of Home Credit and Finance Bank Russia Jack Welch Shared His Message of Leadership, Globalization and Values on AFP Conference Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO, General Electric Jack Welch: Gen Yers are Driven, Thoughtful, Open-Minded and Candid Jack: Straight from the Gut Jean-Luc Duramy (DuPont): My Job Is to Make all These Dots Connected Jean-Luc Duramy (DuPont): Safety Is Like Glue Between People Jean-Luc Duramy, Director DuPont Eastern and Central Europe Jeff Bezos, Founder, President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board, Amazon.com Job.lanit.ru - Career Portal of Leading Russian IT Company Joerg Schreiber (Mazda Motor Rus LLC ): "Question Yourself: How Courageous Are You In the Face of Your Boss?" Joerg Schreiber (Mazda Motor Rus LLC): "Being Good Work Colleagues and Being Friends Is Not That Far Apart In Russia" Joerg Schreiber (Mazda Motor Rus LLC): "People in Russia or Another Country Like East Germany Are Very Good at Smelling When There Is Something Fishy In There" Johan Rosenberg (Oriflame): "By Regulating Too Much You Lose That Entrepreneurship and You Lose the Spirit, You Lose the Winning Heart and Attitude With People" Johan Rosenberg (Oriflame): "Life Is Too Short to Spend Time on Things That You Don't Really Like" Johan Rosenberg, Regional Director CIS & Baltics, Oriflame John E. Pepper (Walt Disney Company): "Bring the Vision Alive by What You Do, Always with the Aspiration to Figure out How to Do Better, Never with the Attitude that We’ve Solved the Issue, Aren’t We Great" John E. Pepper (Walt Disney Company): "Most Important Reason of All Is That You’re Providing More Space for Great Young People to Come and Grow and Be Leaders" John E. Pepper, Jr., Chairman of the Board, The Walt Disney Company John O'Keeffe (Diageo): A Question to the Leaders John O'Keeffe (Diageo): Knowing Your People Really Well You Can Get the Best out of Them John O'Keeffe (Diageo): The role of a leader is to find where in the organization this or that person can best use his talents John O'Keeffe, Managing Director of Diageo Russia and Eastern Europe Hub. Jonathan Breeze (Jet Republic): "This Is About Performance and if You Can Get That in People's Heads, if They Realize that It's About the End Goal Doing It as a Team, Doing what They Meant to Do and Caring about It – You've Won, in Any Business" Jonathan Breeze (Jet Republic):"It Is Better to Have a Bad Leader than No Leader at All" Jonathan Breeze (Jet Republic):"We've Moved Business Aviation in the same Way as We Saw when We Went from the Sony Walkman to the Apple iPod" Jonathan Breeze, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Jet Republic Jonathan C. Knaus, Regional Vice-President in Eastern Europe & CIS of Western Union Jonathan Knaus (Western Union): "Finding a Labor of Love Through Passion" Jonathan Knaus (Western Union): "I Can Never Work in the Environment Where I Couldn’t Laugh in" Keeping a Promise When It Turns out to be Much More Difficult Than It Was Supposed to Be Key Employee Can’t Devote Himself to a Job Because of His Family Member Illness Key Employee Is Firmly Resolved to Leave the Company in Protest Key Manager Wants to Devote Himself to Big Risky Project in Public Interest Kip Tindell, Co-founder, CEO, The Container Store Larry Ellison, Co-Founder, CEO, Oracle Corp. Larry Page, Co-Founder and President of Products, Google Inc. Leaders, Fools and Impostors: Essays on the Psychology of Leadership Leadership Development in Companies Moved from Training "Just in Case" to Focused Learning Leadership in the Rhythm of Rock'n'Roll Leadership Lesson from a Futuristic Rock Climber Leadership Lessons for 2009 Leading By Design: The Ikea Story Leonid Novoselsky, CEO of the Gradient Group. Leonid Novoselsky: The Ability to Trust People Louis Gerstner, former Chairman and CEO, IBM Many of the Young, Talented Russians Who Left Their Home Country in the Late 90s Are Coming Home Marc-Emmanuel Vives (BSGV): "We Are in the Country Where Relationship is the Essence of Business" Marc-Emmanuel Vives (BSGV): "You Can’t Trust Something That Is not Clear to You" Marc-Emmanuel Vives (Rosbank): "Going into Details Is not Losing Contact With Reality" Marc-Emmanuel Vives, President and General Manager of Bank Societe Generale Vostok Marina Novikova, ex. Vice President, Organizational Development and Human Resources, VimpelCom Mary F. Sammons, President and CEO, Rite Aid Corporation Mary F. Sammons, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rite Aid Corporation Michael Calvey (Baring Vostok Capital Partners):"I'm More Like the Coach of a Team or the Trainer of a Team than I am the Lead Player on the Field" Michael Calvey (Baring Vostok Capital Partners):"It's Worth Spending Time to Relearn Historical Lessons" Michael Calvey (Baring Vostok Capital Partners):"When There's Maximum Amount of Fear and Pessimism, It's the Best Time to Buy Businesses and to Invest" Michael Calvey, Baring Vostok Capital Partners, Co-Managing Partner Michael Crow (GlaxoSmithKline): "You Have to Know When You Should Just Let Go and Trust People" Michael Crow (GlaxoSmithKline): "Your Most Creative Moments Can Be When You Have a Breakdown" Michael Crow, Vice-president and General Manager of GlaxoSmithKline Russia Michael Dell, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Dell Inc. Midsummer at Good2Work: business cartoons and real online coaching. Community update 26 July 26, 2007. Mikhail Khabarov, CEO, Alfa Capital Mikhail Khabarov: "We Can’t Stop, Not a Single Member of My Team Can Afford It" Modern Times Sells DTV to CTC Media for $395 Million Monster.com Launches First Service Designed to Promote Availability of Green Jobs Monster.com Launches Video Profile Service, Enabling Employers to Integrate Video in Job Postings Monster.com Study: Employers Undervalue Work/Life Balance Initiatives' Impact on Recruitment More CEOs Are Saying No to Bonuses Most Companies Treat Talent Issues Separately, Which Is a Critical Error, Researchers Say Mutual Corporate Culture (Dress-code) Misunderstanding MySpace Is Looking for a Marketing Executive in Russia Nadezhda Filippova, Senior Vice-President, Head of HR and Corporate Development Division of VTB24 National Consulting Group - Our Corporate Participant Nau: Welcome to Retail 2.0 Neil Tunstall, General Director of "Indesit Rus" LLC New Economy Digest New Global Leaders Must Be Multilingual and Have Several Years of Living Abroad, the Study Suggests New in Content Policy New Social Networking Sites Aim at Older Generations Newly released book Millennial Leaders Tells Success Stories from Today's Most Brilliant Generation Y Leaders News of the Club in October 2008: More Interviews with International Participants; Text and Video Messaging Service Nucor: Decentralized Authority and Sense of Individual Responsibility One of Simple Secrets of Leadership from Young Sam Walton Only 7% of Business Leaders Are Willing to Pay for Online Business News Open Communication is a Must-Do for Every Business-Leader, Boris Scherbakov Says Our First Anniversary (UPDATED 30/04/09) Our Partners Owen Kemp (HP): Communication Can only Happen with a Relevant Level of Curiosity and Education Owen Kemp (HP): If a Human Being is Responsible for Something - It Has to Become Better Owen Kemp (HP): Respect is the Basis for Communication Owen Kemp HP Russia Managing Director Vice-President, Hewlett-Packard Participant's Public Content License Patagonia: the Company That Limits Its Growth and Fights for Protection of Nature Patricia M. Cloherty (DeltaPrivateEquityPartners): 'A Great Value in Life is Knowing How to Say 'no' Respectfully' Patricia M. Cloherty (DeltaPrivateEquityPartners): 'The Best Management Team Can do Extremely Well with a Second-Rate Idea' Patricia M. Cloherty, Chairman and CEO of Delta Private Equity Partners Patrick Aghanian: How to Diagnose Situation Patrick Aghanian: How to Set and Communicate Vision PepsiCo’s Leadership Development Approach Includes Career-Growth and Talent-Management Models Perform-or-Die Culture Led to Lack of Talent and Leadership in U.S. Financial Sector Personal Competencies 1 Role Models Peter Loukianoff (Almaz Capital Partners): It's Hard for a Manager to Scale the Business if He Is too Detailed Peter Loukianoff (Almaz Capital Partners): The Best Companies Allow Their Employees to Grow Within the Structure Peter N. Loukianoff, Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners. Pharmacy Chain 36.6 Raises $115 mln in Share Issue Philippe Delpal (BNP Paribas Vostok Bank, CETELEM Russia): "Conversation Is the Game that You Can Play with Two, Three or Four People" Philippe Delpal (BNP Paribas Vostok Bank, CETELEM Russia): "It's an Illusion to Believe that You Can Be an Example in Everything" Philippe Delpal (BNP Paribas Vostok Bank, CETELEM Russia): "Values Are above Everything" Philippe Delpal, President of "BNP Paribas Vostok" Bank, CEO of CETELEM (Russia) Philippe Graff (Dynargie) recommends: Win-Win-Win Management and Peak Performance Philippe Graff (Dynargie): The Company Should Maximum Have Five Values Philippe Graff (Dynargie): When 27 Years Ago We Started the Company we Knew It Must be International or It Might not Exist at All Pierre Omidyar, Founder and Chairman, eBay Privacy Policy Private Bankers Are Forced to Recruit From Outside of Conventional Circles Due to Talent Competition Promoted Person Appears to Be Wrong for the Job Radoslav Vojnovic (Atlas Copco): "As a Company, We Are Always Trying to Be Good Citizens in a Country where We Operate" Radoslav Vojnovic (Atlas Copco): "Only Competent People Can Achieve the Goals, Therefore, Our Strategy Is to Attract, Retain and Develop People" Radoslav Vojnovic, Vice President Holding, Russia, Managing Director ZAO Atlas Copco René Schlegel (Robert Bosch): "I Think I Never Met Anybody in Whom I Couldn’t Identify Something This Person Is Good at" René Schlegel (Robert Bosch): "It’s Very Important in Leadership to Identify What Not to Do" René Schlegel (Robert Bosch): "We Need Values to Keep the Ship More or Less Steady and in the Right Direction" René Schlegel, Representative of Bosch Group in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan Results of a Brainstorming Session about Online Coaching of the Good2Work Team with Igor Salita, CEO Jackpot Ricardo Semler, CEO and majority owner, Semco SA Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group Richard Branson, the Founder of Virgin Group Richard Branson: Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way Richard Gaskin (GE Money Bank): "A Good Leader Doesn't Spend Too Much Time Thinking What His Particular Strength Is" Richard Gaskin (GE Money Bank): "Respect for People Is a Key Quality" Robert Agee (Cisco): 'If I Lose Trust in Person I Won't Be Able to Work with Him any Longer' Robert Agee (Cisco): 'Passion and Inspiration Are the Things that any Leader Has to Embody' Robert Agee, Vice-president, Cisco Systems for Russia Rosinter Joined up With Belgravia and Immo Industry to Develop Business Parks across Russia RSS Ruben Vardanian, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Troika Dialog Group Ruben Vardanian, Troika Dialog: “I Value My Company’s Managers’ Ambitions to Become Extra Successful” Rudolph Giuliani, 107th Mayor of New York City Sam Walton, Founder, Wal-Mart Sam Walton: Made in America: My Story Sanjiv Kakkar (Unilever): "Good Leaders are Valued for High Level of Clarity on the Ultimate Destination" Sanjiv Kakkar (Unilever): "It's Important for the Leader to Set the Ego Aside" Sanjiv Kakkar, Chairman, Unilever Russia, Ukraine and Belarus Schools Second Acts: Career Paths For Worn-Out Executives Semco SA: Brazilian Miracle Where Employees Set Their Salaries and Sleep in Hammocks Sergei Petrov: Overturned Values Sergey Aslibekian, Managing Partner, Grant Thornton Sergey Aslibekian: "To Convince You Need More than Talking" Sergey Brin, Co-Founder and President of Technology, Google Inc. Sergey Brin, Co-founder and the President of Technology at Google Sergey Krivonogov, the Head of DDB Russia Group of Companies Sergey Krivonogov: "Hire Only Good People – It Makes Things Easier!" Sergey Petrov, the Founder of "Rolf" Group of Companies Sergey Petrov: "Mission Grasps People" Shannon Cullum (Saatchi & Saatchi): "I Don’t Know If I’m a Challenge Junky But I Like To Wake Up Everyday With a Certain Amount of Uncertainty" Shannon Cullum (Saatchi & Saatchi): "One of the Things That We Set Out To Do Is To Have Our People Be Permanently Inspired Which Is Obviously Very Lofty Goal But There Are Things You Can Do" Shannon Cullum, CEO Saatchi & Saatchi Russia Some People (Updated March 10, 2009) Starbucks: a “Third Place” to Spend Time after Home and Work Stefan De Loecker (Nestle): "I Don't Believe that Personal Values Can Be Different from the Ones in Business" Stefan De Loecker (Nestle): "If I Take My Personal Situation I Don't think I'm a Specialist in Anything" Stephen Covey: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Steve Jobs, Co-Founder and CEO, Apple Inc. Steve Strachota (Cadbury): "You Do Need to Look Forward and You Need to Look Ahead, Because You Need to Know what’s Coming around the Next Corner and Be Able to Anticipate and React" Steve Strachota (Cadbury): "You Want to Be Able to Operate in a Way that Your Employees Will Respect and that People Won’t Question" Steve Strachota, Managing Director Cadbury Russia and CIS Steven Allan Spielberg, film director and producer, co-founder of the DreamWorks studio Steven Fisher (Citi): "Animals Need to Adapt to Changing Environments to Survive; Businesses Need to Adapt to Changing Environment Also to Survive" Steven Fisher (Citi): "Commitment Is a Force That Brings People Together, That Moves a Business Forward, That Takes You from a Goal or an Idea to an Achievement or to a Contribution" Steven Fisher (Citi): "If You Misstep and You Hurt Your Reputation the Cost Could Be Incalculable" Steven Fisher, Managing Director, Corporate Bank Head, Citi - Russia & CIS Straight from the Founders: What Does It Take to Build Sustainable Business from Scratch? Stuart Lawson (HSBC Russia): "If I Can Look in the Eyes of my Ten-year-old Son When I Have Finished My Day at Work and Be Proud of What I’ve Done, than That’s Ok by Me" Stuart Lawson (HSBC Russia): "We All Are Always Learning and the Moment You Stop Learning It’s Time to Quit" Stuart Lawson (HSBC Russia): “Many Learnings in Life Don’t Come From the Easy Days, They Come From the Difficult Days” Stuart Lawson, CEO of HSBC Russia Successful Demotion Successful Hired Manager Career Abandoned in Favor of One’s Own Business Talent Supply Chain Management Tata Group’s Talent Development Keeps MBAs from Leaving India Test for Rock & Roll Leaders The "Ten Hot Dogs" Strategy of Ingvar Kamprad The 4-E (and 1P) Framework The Container Store Tries to Make Employees Want to Come to Work in the Morning The Container Store tries to make employees want to come to work in the morning and has steadily grown during 29 years The Four Truths of Storytelling The Headquarters Make the Branch Leader Apply a Wrong Solution The Home Depot: the Combination of Entrepreneurial Spirit and GE-Style Discipline The Party Is Over. The Show Must Go On. Community Update 4 October, 2007 The Path to the Summit - Changing Focus from Product to Client The Right Person for a Top Position Is Not Interested in the Job The Road to Movie Business The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference The War for Talent Is On The “Eight Rules” Framework Threat of Loss of Control over Company as a Result of Hiring an Outsider CEO Three Stories on Design of Outstanding Experience To Bridge the Generation Gap, Employment Agency Randstad Teams Y-ers With Older Staff To get rich your child should read To Stick and Inspire Today You’re a Mediocrity, Tomorrow – a Leader? Tom Peters: Rе-imagine! Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com Top Manager’s Career Reaches Its Plateau in a Big Corporation Top MBA's For Leaders By QS International Recruiter Survey Top5 in Russia’s Best Employer Ranking Consists of Foreign Companies. McDonalds Is №1 Trainings Troubles with Office Machines Make Impossible Finishing Work in Time in a Usual Way UK Entrepreneurs Voted for Richard Branson and Alan Sugar as the Business Leaders They Most Admire UK Insurers Face a Recruitment Crisis, Failing to Sell the Industry to Students and Talented Managers US Leads in a Global Talent Index, China and India Are at the Top 10, Russia Will Fall from 6th to 11th Place by 2012 Vadim Asadov, CEO and Founder, NeurOK Vadim Asadov: Parting with a star Vadim Asadov: Playing Chess with Yourself Vadim Goryainov, Movie Producer, Krasnaya Strela Vadim Goryainov: A Film Director’s Revolt Values vs Profits: 400 Harvard MBA Graduates Voluntarily Took a Hippocratic Oath to Serve Greater Good Victor Saeijs (Nokia): Honesty Takes the Longest Root Victor Saeijs (Nokia): I Love to See that People Really Stretch and Challenge Themselves by Going to the Situations They Are not Familiar With Victor Saeijs (Nokia): You Are Never Too Old to Learn VimpelCom: Corporate Partner №1 of Good2Work Club of Leaders Vince Lombardi, One of the Most Successful Coaches in the History of American Football Virgin Group May Soon Come to Russia, Selling Franchise for Virgin Megastore to Ritzio Group Virgin Group Sees Opportunities for Expansion into China and Russia Vladimir Skvortsov, CEO, AlfaStrakhovanie Insurance Group Vladimir Skvortsov: How I provoked a crisis to avoid a deeper one in the future Vladimir Skvortsov: The Speed of Taking Decisions W.L. Gore & Associates - an unusual fast growing company with culture that enables employees to innovate and earn W.L. Gore & Associates: an Unusual Fast Growing Company with Culture That Enables Employees to Innovate We Present Our Partner: TRIANGLE CONSULTING Wealth of India's 40 Richest Doubled During the Last Year, Making Them the Wealthiest Group in Asia Wegmans Food Markets, a Grocery Chain Where Employees Will Teach You Choosing Wine and Cooking Fish Welcome to Good2Work! Join Us! What Made Branson Start His First Enterprise And Become An Entrepreneur What You As a Club Member Can Do On Your Personal Page? While Many Companies Still Fight for Survival Some Are Already out in the Market Going after the Larger Market Share (Good2Work Club of Leaders February-March 2009 Survey Major Findings) Who is John Galt? Why Living the Right Values Is Important for Life and for Business? Wilbert L. (Bill) Gore, Founder, W.L. Gore & Associates Wilbert L. (Bill) Gore, the Founder of W.L. Gore & Associates Your Boss Thinks You Don’t Fit for General Manager Position Yvon Chouinard, Founder, Patagonia Inc. Zappos: Try Walking in Their Shoes Андрей Яновский, генеральный директор, «Нидан Соки» Как убедить руководителя продаж взять на себя обязательства по обеспечению равномерности продаж? Не бояться учить. Итоги блиц-интервью Good2Work: «Чему бы вы хотели научить других»? Превращение знаний в навыки онлайн. "Мозговой штурм" в офисе Good2Work Фуршет Good2Work на фоне апельсинового заката Чему хотят учиться лидеры настоящие и лидеры будущие? Итоги игрового интервью Good2Work “Hiring For the Top” Framework “Put employees before customers,” Container Store CEO Kip Tindell Advises