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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

CEO Profiles Crisis Management Operations & Strategy Success CEO Onboarding CEO Succession Planning Dell Computers Dell Computers CEO Micahel Dell Offboarding Succession Planning' Some guidance and information along these lines is becoming unavoidable.

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Why Women Should Lead Boldly

LDRLB

Sharon Hadary and Lauren Henderson, authors of “How Women Lead: The 8 Essential Strategies Successful Women Know,” recently wrote a blog entitled “Why Women Should Lead Boldly.” The research that shows how capable women are as leaders is relatively new since concrete, supporting data was only getting published around 2006.

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Customer-Centric Org Charts Aren’t Right for Every Company

Harvard Business Review

Our analysis of Fortune 500 firms shows that the strengths of the strategy are real: Customer-centricity does allow divisions to focus on specific customer segments, and this narrower focus increases their knowledge of those groups. In his 2006 survey of U.S. Henderson of the University of Oregon and Irina V.