Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 13, 2014

Fortune 500 firms with the most female board members outperform those with the least by 26% on return on invested capital and 16% on return on sales, according to a 2011 Catalyst study. . Yet the number of women at the top is barely budging: some 5% of Fortune 500 chief executive officers and 17% of board members. “If

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2011

Nearly 13% of chief financial officers, chief marketing officers, and other C-level executives say that having input into company decisions is their top reason to stay with a company, according to the survey. of C-level executives said it was. Source: The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Anxiety, fear, even dread are among the predictable reactions in the executive suite and boardroom when they unexpectedly appear. Because it was the “mother of all decisions,” it was also one whose execution could have been slowed or even stalled by its own gravity. Brown conducted the due diligence required of a director candidate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I am convinced that one senior-executive colleague never achieved his full potential because he simply looked too much like a conservative banker. And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011. Translation: he looked old. But at least he had a job. No and no.). Is it possible to go too far?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

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. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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