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CEO Disease Symptoms

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" CEOs often hear what they want to hear rather than what really is on the minds of their subordinates," said Mark Anderson, president of ExecuNet, that conducted a survey of 2,463 C-level respondents in December 2010. CEOs think of guiding the ship as their purview.". While only 4.4% of C-level executives said it was.

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CEOs work to keep key employees

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CEOs of major U.S. Why aren't more CEOs worried about retention now? Among Fortune 500 CEOs, the intent to put people as a key item is high. Source: The Wall Street Journal, December 27, 2010. Some companies already are bolstering their retention efforts despite the still-weak job market. Four became best sellers.

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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

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First Borders, then Barnes & Noble CEOs make the wrong leadership decisions. As the business grew, it was time for the Borders brothers to hire a professional CEO. Tom Borders told me that they decided to hire a CEO whose experience was in retailing versus a strategic marketing expert. Barnes & Noble CEO Steps Down.

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NeuroLeadership Summit

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On Thursday, November 7 from 1:30 to 2:45 pm EST, Herrmann International CEO Ann Herrmann-Nehdi will be part of a technology panel at the 2013 Americas NeuroLeadership Summit in Washington, DC, discussing how our understanding of the brain can provide new possibilities for improving leadership and organizational performance.

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Wise Economic Decision Making

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CEOs across the country want to make sure the economy is growing robustly before they commit to new hiring. CEOs know that until consumer demand picks up, the economy won't lift-off and they won't be able to positively affect a lowering of the rate of unemployment. In 2005, housing accounted for 6.1

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Impact of the Millennial Generation

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36% of high school students claim that they would delay or forego college due to costs (Source: TD Ameritrade Study ‘2010 Teens % Money Survey"). Young people in droves are using the Internet for shopping: a whopping 84% of respondents in our survey claim to shop online regularly (Source: Buzz Marketing Group survey).

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Tablet Leadership Competition

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In January 2010, the iPad demonstrated the broad appeal of a new kind of color LCD tablet with better image quality, wider viewing angles, and, near to Amazon’s heart, Apple’s own selection of e-books. Making four successive versions of the Kindle e-reader also led Amazon down the path toward the Kindle Fire.