Stanford Executive Briefings

Common Purpose: Getting From Me to We - DVD

Joel Kurtzman’s “new rules of employment” to instill common purpose are based on years of research and numerous interviews with top executives. From American Express’s Kenneth Chenault, to Michael Dell of Dell Inc., and Steve Wynn of Wynn Resorts, successful leaders align the interests of individuals with those of the organization. NASA in the 1960s, for example, offered employees a once-in-a-lifetime learning opportunity to tackle what they couldn’t do anywhere else, aligning their personal benefit with that of the space program. And they create leaders at every level of the organization by communicating and modeling what’s expected, and then providing feedback and celebrating successes. Learn more

Collective Leadership: How to Unleash Productivity, Potential and Power of Purpose DVD

Analyzing and increasing the understanding of who leaders need to work with, what they want to achieve, and how their people work together effectively enables leaders to act with accuracy to create the conditions for success. Learn more

The Stanford Video Guide to Financial Statements: A Tale of Two Restaurants - DVD

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This award-winning video is designed to take the guesswork out of your financial reports. It tells the story of two employees who have to decide which of two restaurants up for sale is the most sound purchase. Along the way, they get a detailed analysis of each restaurant’s financials, including the balance sheet, inventory accounting, and operating vs. non-operating income. Learn more

Power: How to Get It, Use It, and Keep It - DVD

Getting a job, having control over your work, and holding on to a job all require more than simply excelling at what you do. They require an understanding of power. Learn more

Creating Winning Social Media Strategies - DVD

A fundamental power shift is underway in relationships between organizations and customers. Learn more

Sustainability Matters: Business Strategies for Environmental Leadership DVD

Release - 2010

With consumers favoring products and services that are better for the environment, companies are finding competitive advantage in the environmental impact of their activities.

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Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from Business Failures - DVD

While we are inspired by business success stories, we are educated by business failures. Chunka Mui and Paul Carroll researched 750 of the most significant business failures of the past quarter-century and found the Number 1 cause of failure was not sloppy execution, poor leadership or bad luck. It was, instead, misguided strategy. Mui gives examples of the seven most common strategic failure patterns: illusions of synergy, misjudged adjacencies, faulty financial engineering and others. He explains that each pattern has predictable red flags. Learn more

Happiness Matters: Creating a Culture for Business to Thrive

In this high-spirited talk, Tony Hsieh shares how Zappos fosters its unique culture, starting with hiring and retaining employees based on their commitment to its core values. Learn more

Bill Gates in Conversation with Stanford President John Hennessy - DVD

In this lively and informative presentation, Bill Gates gives you his perspective on where technology is headed. Expanding on his belief that we're "really just at the beginning," he shares his goals for the current decade—advances in networking and application interactivity; increases in reliability and ease of use; and improvements in productivity, as information sharing becomes more and more efficient. Learn more

The Values-Based Leader DVD

Release - 2011

Practical advice on how to lead while staying true to your moral compass. Values-based leadership is possible for anyone to achieve, at any point in a career, by adhering to four guiding principles of behavior.

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Conflicts in the Workplace: Sources & Solutions - DVD

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Conflict becomes destructive when anger, jealousy, and other strong emotions turn the focus away from problem solving and toward personal attacks. Destructive conflict can ruin relationships among workers, interfere with productivity, destroy teamwork, and contribute to employee absenteeism and turnover. Learn more

Leadership at Every Level DVD

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This video begins by demonstrating successful management styles: direction, influence, collaboration, and delegation. It then explains how your setting and your subordinates determine which management style is most appropriate for your situation -- and the need to adapt to changing circumstances.

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The Adaptive Organization - DVD

by

Richard Roi
Partner, Crawford International 

 At any given time, companies may be juggling as many as ten different change initiatives. The sad reality is that the majority of them will fail as new ideas lead to new projects while the older ones are allowed to languish.

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Collaborative Entrepreneurship: Creating Wealth Through Networked Firms - DVD

Since many existing business practices inhibit innovation, new organizational designs and managerial approaches must emerge to meet today's new challenges. Learn more

Avoiding the Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent-DVD

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Tamara Erickson
President, The Concours Institute

Different generations have different opinions about work. These days, your Boomers are headed toward retirement while your younger employees are coming in with fewer skills. Learn more

Building a Winning Team - DVD

Fear and uncertainty in the workplace hurt the morale of teams and lead to pessimism, poor focus and subpar performance. Jon Gordon’s strategies for successfully uniting teams center on his belief that communication is key. 

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The Mastery of Speaking as a Leader - DVD

Today's leaders must connect with their audiences in substantive ways that go far beyond the giving of information. Learn more

Building the Market-Focused Culture - DVD

Organizations totally driven by the market consistently outperform their competition in profitability. These organizations carefully segment their markets and deliver an outstanding value proposition to their target customers. Learn more

Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done- DVD

In a business environment of fast-moving markets, global supply chains, and dynamic technologies, executing strategy is becoming increasingly difficult. Learn more

Boom and Bust: Thriving Through Major Business Cycles

Voted the Number 1 company to work for in 2009 by Fortune magazine, NetApp has successfully navigated through every major cycle in business: from the frenetic mentality of a startup, through the tumultuous period of the dot-com boom and bust, and finally to the relative stability of a mature enterprise organization. Learn more

The Stanford Video Guide to Negotiating - DVD

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In business or otherwise, you probably do some form of negotiation every single day. But are you getting the most that you can out of it? This award-winning program follows talks between a baseball park and the team that might move there. Learn more

How to Manage People Through Continuous Change - DVD

Change is no longer an event... Change is business as usual. Customers are demanding "better, faster, cheaper"; competition is fierce; and a turbulent economy and technological advances increase the pressure to "do more with less." Learn more

Corporate Legends and Lore: The Power of Storytelling as a Management Tool - DVD

No matter what its size, specialty, or scope, every organization has its own unique legends and lore that become part of the very fabric of its identity. These corporate stories have tremendous power to increase productivity, implement change, and motivate employees. When well-timed and skillfully told, one story can accomplish more than a thousand memos. Consultant Peg Neuhauser demonstrates how you can tell "hero," "survivor," "letting off steam," and "kick in the pants" stories that motivate others and build personal influence. Learn more

Best Practices for Your Website Collection - DVDs

We've updated our popular Stanford lecture series on effective Website practices. Learn from the experts what you need to know about what's happening right now on the Web. Get all 12 titles in the series and save! Learn more

Strategies for Selling - DVD

Selling is not an event but an ever-changing process that requires a solid strategy to achieve positive results. James Healy explains how to manage the four dynamic and interactive functions of selling and describes the skills that good salespeople need to learn in order to develop an effective selling strategy. Learn more