by Jonathan Gifford | Apr 25, 2010 | Leaders from History
This article first appeared in The Guardian and can be seen at guardian.co.uk The article is based on historical figures who feature in Jonathan’s book, History Lessons History is filled with the achievements of great leaders, but what were they so good at, and...
by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 25, 2010 | Leadership issues
Toyota’s leadership team are still struggling with one of the most intriguing – and dangerous – challenges to face a major global corporation in recent years. How is the leadership team doing? I think that ‘better’ must be the answer. Is it enough? Hard to say. Akio...
by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 4, 2010 | Leadership issues
Jack Welch, (CEO of America’s General Electric Company from 1981-2001) came up with the most succinct and compelling description of crisis management that I have seen. On Welch’s watch it was alleged that workers at a GEC plant producing military components for...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 30, 2010 | Business & Leadership
When he arrived at IBM , Gerstner said to a press conference in July 1993, after his first 100 days, ‘There’s been a lot of speculation as to when I’m going to deliver a vision of IBM, and what I’d like to say to all of you is that the last thing IBM needs right now...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 22, 2010 | Business & Leadership
Carly Fiorina was employed as the CEO of Hewlett Packard (HP) in July 1999. She drove through a programme of change in the face of what she saw as a company that had taken Bill Hewlett’s and David Packard’s philosophy of devolving decision-making as far as...