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The Name Of The CEO Influences Their Career

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) found that a CEO’s last name can significantly impact their job security and boost their pay by as much as 4.9%. perceived CEOs’ last names and where they came from. This perception was then linked to CEO pay and job security. companies between 1999 and 2014.

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Strategies to Lead Your Company Forward to the Future of Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Episode 250: In this episode, you’ll hear David catching up with Dan Michelson, the author of “Holy Shift: Moving Your Company Forward to the Future of Work.” 20:02-24:22: Addressing the CEO’s perspective, the conversation highlights the underlying reasons for wanting employees back in the office.

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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

This, of course, starts with the CEO, and young companies have a broad set of founders and CEOs with different backgrounds, competencies, and demographics at the helm. A Forbes article in 2017 titled “If You Want To Be ‘CEO Material,’ Develop These 15 Traits,” created a laundry-list of traits needed to be a great CEO.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Ideals and Compromise

N2Growth Blog

portfolio company executives , diving into hiring assessment essentials in terms of hard skills to lead a portfolio company and run the business. Adding a new CxO might create temporary instability in a firm that has relied on generations of insiders or in the case of a more recent startup, a mercurial leader to harness the company.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

In the previous three parts of this series, we realized the challenging factors around searching for and placing an ideal candidate to lead a private equity portfolio company. A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company.

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Boards Are Biased Against Foreign-Born CEOs

The Horizons Tracker

A new study from researchers at Florida Atlantic University has found that CEOs who are not originally from the country they work in are more likely to lose their jobs if the company they lead is not doing well. ” the researchers explain. The findings highlight the potential for bias in how boards make their decisions.

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How CEOs Can Build and Maintain a Strong Company Culture

Strategy Driven

Sixty-six percent (66%) of job seekers consider a company’s culture and values an essential factor in choosing a career opportunity. The CEO is in a position to ensure that a company’s culture is strong, healthy, and nurturing. You can only build a company that succeeds with it.

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