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The Promise and Peril of a Star CEO

Harvard Business Review

Governance expert Ram Charan considers executive sessions the most important recent innovation in corporate governance. ” Have a good COO and other C-level people in place. Tesla has no COO. Facebook brought in Sheryl Sandberg as COO. It is a sign of danger when investors say “There is no Tesla without Musk.”

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 1/21/13)

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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism Robert [.].

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How to Really Listen to Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

Ram Charan. “He cautioned us about our growth, but we never really listened,” says Cameron, who was the COO at the time. Some of us were taught that it was weak to listen, that we need to speak up,” says Su. Without first recognizing the influence of your early years, it’s difficult to change. Further Reading.

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