Archive for the ‘Global Perspective’ Category
VIP Corner: Mary Ellen Iskenderian on being a smart philanthropist
SmartBrief is partnering with Big Think to create a weekly video spotlight in SmartBrief on Leadership called “VIP Corner: Video Insights Powered by Big Think.” This week, we’re featuring Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s World Banking. A strong philanthropist leader in her own right, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s [...]
Q-and-A: Marion Blakey on how sequestration will affect the future of aerospace
Marion Blakey is the president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association. AIA dailyLead editor Angela Giroux Scheide interviewed Blakey on her thoughts regarding how sequestration and the economy has affected the aerospace and defense industry. An edited transcript of their conversation follows. Sequestration is slated to cut an additional $600 billion from defense over [...]
Q-and-A: Andrew Herrmann on how the U.S. can improve its global competitiveness
Andrew Herrmann is the 2011-2012 president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is a principal at New York City-based Hardesty & Hanover, a transportation consulting engineering firm founded in 1887, and is an expert in the inspection, rating, design, rehabilitation and construction of bridges. SmartBrief talked with Herrmann about his approach to the [...]
Spotlight on Association Leadership: So how “international” are you?
Terrance Barkan, CAE, is the chief strategist at GLOBALSTRAT, an international strategy consultancy for associations. He is the past chairman of the ASAE International Section Council. Many organizations describe themselves as “international” but in reality, there are degrees of how international an organization is. It helps boards and staff teams to think about where their [...]
GE encourages the continuous evolution of leadership development
This guest post is by Janice Semper, General Electric’s manager of executive development. A lot can change during the lifetime of an organization. One hundred thirty years ago, there were less than 300,000 telephones across the U.S. Thirteen years ago, only 3% of the world’s population was on the Internet. Today, more than 30% of [...]
Q-and-A: Maria de Lourdes Sobrino’s sweet strategy for success
Maria de Lourdes Sobrino is CEO of Lulu’s Dessert and a Hall of Fame Award honoree. She served as a keynote panelist at this year’s National Association of Women Business Owners’ Women’s Business Conference. Sobrino founded Lulu’s in 1982 based on her mother’s recipe. It was the first company to bring ready-to-eat gelatin to the U.S. [...]
Q&A with Shirley Engelmeier: 4 steps for implementing inclusion in the workplace
Shirley Engelmeier is the CEO of InclusionINC. She helps Fortune 500 companies implement inclusion and meet their key business metrics. SmartBrief interviewed Engelmeier about why inclusion is becoming so important in the workplace and how companies can come up with a successful inclusion strategy. An edited version of her answers follows. What signaled the shift [...]
How British Airways held onto its customers after a disaster
This guest post is by Bart Jackson, CEO of Prometheus Publishing. Prior to founding Prometheus, Jackson founded Biz4NJ, an online business journal. When the sky starts falling, what is the business leader’s first consideration? There’s only one right answer, and on April 16, 2010, Willie Walsh, CEO of British Airways, made the right call. That [...]
