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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers.

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Oh dear Mr. Clark… can't you do better than that?

Roundtable Talk

Posted on October 12, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment So, the Globe and Mail is doing a big feature series on why there aren’t more women heading up Canadian corporations and, worse, why other countries are scooping our (apparently meager) female executive talent. Skip to content Home Welcome! And, that’s my rant for today.

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The Personal Strength of Self-Development: Rackspace's Dynamic CEO, Lanham Napier

Building Personal Strength

My wife went straight to the Sunday (May 2, 2010) edition of the San Antonio Express-News , to see if her new article was published in the Travel section. His Harvard classmates, who sought jobs at big consulting firms and investment banks, thought he was crazy. In 2000 he accepted a job as CFO at start-up Rackspace.

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VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

With a strong, competent, and independent chair able to step in and assume responsibility (and possibly act as interim CEO), a company in a crisis that destroys its leadership is better placed to navigate the storm. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S. Take the case of BP.

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Does Female Ambition Require Sacrifice?

Harvard Business Review

Research conducted by the Center for Work-Life Policy in 2010 confirms that women start out wanting the brass ring almost as badly as men do: 47% of women 30 and younger describe themselves as "very ambitious," as compared to 62% of men. Only 32% of highly qualified women over 40 describe themselves as very ambitious (compared to 46% of men).

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Career Growth: 4 Signs That Your Company Will Give You a Fair Shot

Women on Business

Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer. Prior to joining Peoplefluent in late 2010, Ms.

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