From the course: Leadership Stories: 5-Minute Lessons in Leading People
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Great results vs. happy people
From the course: Leadership Stories: 5-Minute Lessons in Leading People
Great results vs. happy people
- Sara Mathew joined Dun & Bradstreet in August 2001 as chief financial officer. Less than a year later, she discovered the company had been accidentally overstating their revenues for years. Apparently, there are all kinds of arcane accounting rules about how you have to recognize complicated revenue sources, but D&B had apparently been using the wrong method for some time. So they had to completely restate their books for several prior years, and they had to get it done in six weeks before the next quarterly earnings release. Well, as you can imagine, that took an enormous amount of work for the finance and accounting department. Long days, sometimes working well into the night and through the weekends. But they eventually got it done, and on time. And the speed and accuracy of their work gave Wall Street analysts confidence that there wouldn't be any more skeletons that came out of their closet later. So there stock price didn't take the kind of hit that you might expect. Yeah, it…
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Crisis communication4m 25s
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Talking too much (or too little)3m 42s
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Learn jaw-dropping candor3m 16s
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Great results vs. happy people3m 55s
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How to be a top performer3m 46s
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How to receive tough feedback yourself3m 47s
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Good vs. better vs. best performance5m 11s
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Think outside the box2m 19s
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Find solutions outside your industry5m 34s
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Identify compensating behaviors3m 17s
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Promote simplicity1m 58s
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Give inventors needed room to invent2m 13s
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Use moonlighting to increase engagement4m 56s
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