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The Danger of Success: CEO Syndrome

CEO Insider

The biggest danger facing an accomplished CEO isn’t another lockdown, competition or technological obsolescence. The looming threat, which is a product of success, is CEO Syndrome: the externally-inflated ego that leads a CEO to be certain of their own judgment and allows them to self-insulate from honest feedback and diversity of opinion.

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CEOs: Difficult customers can improve your business

CEO Insider

Most CEOs recognize the need for their firms to be customer-focused. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article CEOs: Difficult customers can improve your business are those of the author Chris L. A focus on customers is a business truism. The evidence for those that do it well is unambiguous.

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Walgreens Boots Alliance Leadership Announces New Executive Team

HR Digest

The Walgreens Boots Alliance leadership just announced three new members for its executive VP team with the aim of improving its healthcare services and strategy, which includes Elizabeth Burger Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), Mary Langowski President for the U.S. With 12,500 locations in the U.S.

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Turning Those Flabby Abs Into That Sexy Six-Pack

Marshall Goldsmith

I recently got a call from Mary, an EVP for human resources, who was dealing with the integration of people and systems after her company had made a large acquisition. “Don, our CEO, has been hearing some serious grumbling about Bill, our chief information officer,” she groaned. Coaching'

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A Six-Second Six Pack? Really, Now…

Marshall Goldsmith

For instance, a few months ago, Mary, an EVP for Human Resources, who was dealing with the integration of people and systems after her company made a large acquisition. Don, our CEO, has been hearing some serious grumbling about Bill, our Chief Information Officer,” she groaned.

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The six-minute leadership practice that might surprise you

CEO Insider

Here’s a question: where do you speak about strategy issues when you don’t know exactly what it is you want to say? Certainly not in the board room or at a company presentation. Probably not even in front of your senior leadership team or even in a one-to-one meeting with a key report. You’re supposed […].

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What Executives Should Know About Digital Currencies

CEO Insider

It’s 2022, and both blockchain technology and the digital assets that it enables are seemingly everywhere in the corporate world — a stark departure from crypto’s grassroots origins. Here a car company putting Bitcoin on its balance sheet, there a bank opening a branch in the Metaverse; here venture funds plowing money into Web3, there […].