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CEO Next Door Book Reveals Four Key Behaviors Of Successful CEOs And Busts CEO Myths

Eric Jacobson

The CEO Next Door is the new book that offers career advice for everyone who aspires to rise in their organization and achieve their full potential. Those busted myths, described more fully later in this post, include: Over 70% of CEOs set their sights on the top job late in their careers. Only 7% graduated from a top university.

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Performance Management and the Pony Express

Harvard Business Review

I argued that such rating systems don’t accomplish the task managers expect from them, which is to accelerate the performance of their people. However, even if these were sufficient goals, managers would still be frustrated by how poorly ratings-based Human Capital Management (HCM) systems achieves them. False Precision.