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DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 369

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

After all, sales experience feeds the types of line jobs — where individuals have P&L accountability — that are a pipeline to the C-suite. This helps explain why the number of women CEOs in Fortune 500 companies appears stuck around 3%. Selling needs to be a part of every woman's career tool kit.

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P&L McKinsey Consensus Committee 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

This abstract pulls out some of the key management missteps: forcing experimental new projects into P&L rigor too early; forcing new products to use Windows, even as it hampered their viability; and forcing managers to use "stack ranking," in which employee performance is graded on a curve. BONUS BITS: Longreads.

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P&L McKinsey Comparison Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Tellingly, only five of the 30 CEOs Barron's picked in 2008 as the world's best showed up on a similar list in 2012. A problem or an opportunity has to be big to elbow its way into a CEO's consciousness — and by the time it does, it's often too late for the organization to intercept the future.

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P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Some parts of the agenda — eco-efficiency and resource conservation for example — are widely accepted now, and it's rare to find a big-company CEO who doesn't have sustainability on his or her radar. Corporate sustainability lost some of its sexiness from previous years, as it grew more entrenched in day-to-day business.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It is a massive business issue that more than 75% of corporate CEOs currently put on their agenda of top 10 issues. Research shows that gender balance happens in companies only if it is personally and forcefully led by the CEO. But how can you tell whether a CEO is a good leader on gender? Even McKinsey & Co.,

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P&L CEO Competitive Advantage McKinsey 8