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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits?

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The Greatest Risk to Your Business

Coaching Tip

Your greatest challenge and opportunity in 2011 is to join the growing number of leaders who are focusing on a breakdown of trust as the greatest risk, and creating a “Building Trust Plan” to address it. In a study my organization, entente, conducted in 2006, we asked over 600 people “What is trust?” And guess what?

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Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company

Harvard Business Review

Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007). Even fifty miles can make a difference: the start-up culture around Stanford is vastly more developed than around UC Berkeley, much more disparate than the quality differential of their engineering departments would suggest.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. At the end of 2006, eBay pulled out of the market.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. From 1993 to 2003, according to the company’s current CEO, Knudstorp, the Lego Group lost value at an average rate of 300,000 euros per day. Enter Andreas Kaufmann, an Austrian investor who acquired a controlling stake in Leica in 2006.

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Kevin Eikenberry

Dice was actually launched in 1990, initially as a bulletin board service for recruiters – and by the late 1990’s had ascended to prominence as the go-to site for finding software developers in Silicon Valley. While LinkedIn was ramping up, Monster would hit fever pitch: by 2006, it was one of the 20 most visited sites on the web.

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