The implicit understanding among Alliance members is that, in exchange for their willingness to share their own experience and knowledge, they gain access to the extraordinary collective wisdom of the Alliance community of CEOs. Our members do amazing things and here we've collected some of their lessons learned to preserve and highlight the wealth of knowledge in our membership. Alliance Founder & CEO, Paul Witkay, also shares his perspectives on topics such as leadership, strategy and innovation.
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In the spirit of sharing the collective wisdom of our Alliance community during the COVID-19 crisis, we invited leaders from world-class organizations to share their critical considerations for “Return-to-Workplace” (RTW) planning at our Alliance Leadership Forum on April 29, 2020.
Presenters in areas of Health Issues (One Medical), Employee Issues (Lattice Semiconductor), and specific industries including Manufacturing (Flex), Construction (Webcor Builders) and Scientific Laboratories (Triple Ring Technologies) shared their Back-to-Office principles and timelines, employee health, safety and training plans, strategies for risk mitigation and more.
Read MoreCase categories include: Culture Health Human Resources Leadership Operations Strategy & Planning Trends
Alliance members Ian Cohen of Experian Consumer Services, Himanshu Dwivedi of Data Theorem, Ted Elliott of Jobscience, Ju-kay Kwek of Switchboard Software, Ersin Uzun of Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and Christy Wyatt of Dtex Systems, discuss the sweeping new Data Privacy and GDPR rules taking effect, and how organizations should reconsider the ‘what, where and why’ behind their data practices.
Read MoreCase categories include: Finance Human Resources International Business Marketing Operations Sales Strategy & Planning Technology Trends
Alliance leaders know that today’s labor force is experiencing fundamental, permanent change. Alliance members Laura Bergheim of Wordsmithie, Andy Berkenfield of Duncan Channon, Nathan Collins of SRI International, Ross Fernandes of Q Analysts, Glo Gordon of Cisco-Jasper, Kathy Zwickert of NetSuite, and Alliance Director Marion McGovern, share their strategies for growth in the gig economy. This transformation will create critical questions for today’s leaders, and their solutions will be customized for each unique situation. Given the track record of Bay Area innovation, we think it’s not a matter of if the answers will come, but when.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership Operations Strategy & Planning Trends
Ebbe Altberg, CEO of the virtual reality pioneer Linden Lab, recently shared a curious facet of his company’s culture at an Alliance meeting. Called the “Love Machine,” this innovation sparked instant curiosity and captured the imaginations of the CEOs in the room. Just what is the Love Machine?
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership Operations Trends
Keeping your team in a healthy state of dissatisfaction is an underlying element of any high-performance work environment.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership
Andrew Giacomini
This article discusses a long-term workplace differentiation strategy that will enable you to attract and retain top talent, even in the talent shortage that challenges us all in every economic growth cycle. An ideal time to start is a year or more before the talent pool shrinks.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership Strategy & Planning
Bob Fahlman
A private equity firm brings in a seasoned CEO to dramatically accelerate the growth of a stable, conservative company. The CEO carefully controls his own on-boarding process designed to identify and retain great talent and create momentum company-wide for high growth. This case study details his technique.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership
John Keagy
A high growth CEO builds value by being first to the market with hot new products and technologies. But that means moving faster than is comfortable for all his teams as his organization grows. The case talks about minimizing risk on new product introductions and managing the teams that must do the work.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership Strategy & Planning
Jim Pouliot
CEOs are too tolerant of executives that aren't top performers and that don't behave according to the values that the organization holds dear. CEO Jim Pouliot of CSAA talks to the Alliance about his experiences cleaning up executive teams. This essay explores why CEOs continually struggle with this issue, and what they can do about it.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership
Elaine Tajima
This firm's success brought in so much business that it wasn't as much fun as it used to, and that endangered the quality of the work being performed. The CEO identified a customer in particular that was causing most of the problems and resigned the account, allowing her culture of fun and originality to survive.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership
Uwe Druckenmueller
Every successful startup goes from an entrepreneurial stage to a professional enterprise. Learn how the entrepreneur also successfully made the crossing point without hitting the wall.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership Operations
Sometimes the best teammates are the ones that worked before. A CEO digs through past connections to forge a "dream team" of talent. The challenges and benefits are examined.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources
Ron Johnson
Innovation leads to powerful results. A CEO fosters a rich culture of innovation by getting the most out of his top team.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership
Rick Gaan
Showing genuine concern for your employees is good for business. The founders buy a troubled business with young, troubled employees, and turn it around by deeply engaging and tapping the potential in each employee.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership
Bud Michael
An incoming CEO fires the most senior technical expert because he won't embrace the new values that must take hold for the firm to survive. The bold move works without significant damage.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership Operations
Ed Kit
A company finds an excellent way of managing off-shoring, taking advantage of the positives while avoiding the pitfalls. Blending the efforts of on-shoring with off-shoring and a commitment to close management are key.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources International Business Operations
Summary: Engineer turned entrepreneur bootstraps his company, but can't afford the talent he needs. Through careful sharing of equity, he builds a great team who bring results amazingly fast.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Strategy & Planning
Pamela Kan
A consultant provides great value and mentors the President, who being grateful, grants a three year contract, but then regrets it. Clients must always remain in control of consultants.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership
Terry Lim
Summary: A retail chain has incredible training program, which instills corporate values in new hires and teaches product knowledge as well as systems and customer interface protocols. After the initial training, they weave training into the company's routine.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership Operations
Rick Sutherland
Read about an executive compensation system that really worked. By generously sharing the bottom line, the owner quadrupled his take home. The concept is laid out, and critical elements to successful implementation are detailed.
Read MoreCase categories include: Human Resources Leadership
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