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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

years as of 2011 from 10 years in 2000. CEO Profiles Crisis Management Operations & Strategy Success CEO Onboarding CEO Succession Planning Dell Computers Dell Computers CEO Micahel Dell Offboarding Succession Planning' According to The Conference Board, CEO tenure has decreased to an average of 8.4

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Are you stuck in a never ending project spin cycle?

Roundtable Talk

One of the highlights came from keynote speaker, Harvard Business School professor Rebecca Henderson, who spoke to us on the subject of organizations being stuck , and how they can get un-stuck. She reported on her research into how organization’s chose, manage and succeed/or not, with projects. This really rang so true to me.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. Architectural Innovation.