Trump’s First 100
I guess the media is assuming that Donald Trump will make it to the presidential nomination and maybe to the highest office in the land. When I opened my Google Alerts, I saw this. One of my Alerts is...
View ArticleWelcome to a new CEO
It is always fun to come across something unexpected. I often talk about what CEOs should do in their first 100 days to introduce themselves to employees and others. But a colleague forwarded this to...
View ArticleReputation Review
A few good articles that I have been saving to write about and have not had the chance. So here they are: 1. Lessons from Julius Caesar about how not to run a company well. This article appeared in the...
View ArticleOutsider CEOs back in favor?
How is it that trends have a way of slowing down and raising questions as to whether the pendulum might just swing back in the opposite direction? In the ongoing survey by strategy& (originally...
View ArticleNew CEOs — Be Bold
A report from McKinsey Quarterly on New CEOs has some very valuable information. Looking at what 600 CEOs and the strategic moves they made in their first two years, the researchers found that there...
View ArticleThe CEO Three Year Itch
In my last post, I wrote about a recent McKinsey Quarterly report on new CEOs which had valuable information. The one thing I left out and saved for a follow up post was this finding which showed up in...
View ArticleFirst 100 Days Advice from the world of Sports
Advice from the newly named president of the Harlem Globetrotters on the first 100 days. The writer of the article sums up the new president’s counsel saying that leaders must pivot forward to the next...
View ArticleTim Cook on being CEO
Fall is here, or at least the end of summer. I have to get back into posting on my blog. So here I am on a sunny Sunday before I dive into some work before Monday morning arrives. I wanted to post...
View ArticleCEOs Showing Up
CEOs are taking their jobs as chief recruitment officers seriously. An article in this week’s WSJ described how CEOs are spending more time on campus grounds. The lead example was from Cargill’s CEO...
View ArticleWhat makes a high-performing CEO?
You ought to read this article on what makes some CEOs successful and others not. There are lots of interesting things to learn from their 10 year old research study called the CEO Genome Project. The...
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