The latest from Stuart Levine

Mar 21, 2014 - by Stuart R. Levine, Stuart Levine & Associates LLC

Ethics pays and reputation is key

Companies with the strongest reputations perform better financially, as reflected in data from numerous studies of businesses by the Harvard Business School, The Economist Intelligence Unit and many others.    Executives ...

Feb 21, 2014 - by Stuart R. Levine, Stuart Levine & Associates LLC

The power of women in the workforce

Women in America represent an underutilized economic resource that can increase organizational effectiveness. Women represent a market demographic with huge, dominant buying capacity.  Despite the fact that more women than ...

Jan 27, 2014 - by Stuart R. Levine, Stuart Levine & Associates LLC

Diversity and inclusion benefit the employee, the member and the community

Our recent Credit Union Leadership Forum Edu-Leader® learning program examined the importance of diversity and inclusion to increase organizational effectiveness.  The rapidly occurring demographic changes affecting the credit union industry ...

Dec 16, 2013 - by Stuart R. Levine, Stuart Levine & Associates LLC

Tri-Sector leadership to meet today’s challenges

Harvard Business Review recently published an article, Triple-Strength Leadership, by Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas, which addressed how a career that includes experience in the private, public and social or ...

Nov 12, 2013 - by Stuart R. Levine, Stuart Levine & Associates LLC

Coaching to build senior leadership capacity

Executive consultation or “coaching” is an important tool for building leadership capacity and creating a culture of learning and growth. Stanford Business School recently surveyed more than 200 CEOs, board ...

Oct 16, 2013 - by Stuart R. Levine, Stuart Levine & Associates LLC

Responsible governance means quality board recruitment

Responsible governance requires thoughtful attention to recruitment of quality board members.  The Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, which is a non-profit organization involved in governance, ethics and compliance ...

Sep 27, 2013 - by Stuart R. Levine, Stuart Levine & Associates LLC

Making innovation part of everyone’s work life

A successful organization makes innovation part of everyone’s work life.  Innovators collaborate, question, observe and experiment.  Two-thirds of executives recently polled believe innovation is critical to their long-term strategy. ...

Aug 5, 2013 - by Stuart R. Levine, Stuart Levine & Associates LLC

Chief Data Officer is Everyone’s Job

We have been addressing foundational ways to increase leadership capacity through building value-based communication channels that establish trust, encourage collaboration and innovation among employees and engage members.  A recently published ...