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How To Hire The Right People And Set Them Up For Success

Eric Jacobson

In the new book, Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier , you’ll discover how seven companies from around the world reinvented the talent management process to become better functioning companies and talent engines that drive impressive growth. Question: What are the most important things to look for in a candidate when selecting a CEO?

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The 6 Passages of Leadership and Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Charan, Drotter, and Noel wrote about six leadership passages in their classic book The Leadership Pipeline. However, they use the terms “leadership” and “management” interchangeably. Unless you are an heir to a throne, people usually don’t begin their careers leading a large organization. There’s a big difference, right?

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Successful organizations know what skills are required for a leader to be effective for the organization to meet its long term strategic goals and grow and prosper. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization. Influencing skills. Collaborative decision making and problem solving.

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The Promise and Peril of a Star CEO

Harvard Business Review

Ten years later, it could produce, albeit with extraordinary measures, 5,000 cars a month and had a higher market value than Ford’s. Governance expert Ram Charan considers executive sessions the most important recent innovation in corporate governance.

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Microsoft’s Next CEO: How the Board Can Get It Right

Harvard Business Review

All have served at or near the pinnacle of company power, and they now bring that experience to judging who has the requisite skill-set to lead the world’s largest software maker in a fast-morphing market. Their prior question here is sure to be the company’s long-term strategy. Stay inside or consider an “outside-in” candidate.

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An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

Harvard Business Review

But Motorola’s markets were transforming in the mid-2000s, and chief executive Greg Brown and his board decided in March 2008 that the company should be split in two: Motorola Mobility would take its mobile phones and related devices, and Motorola Solutions its mission-critical data and communication products.

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How To Produce An Effective Company Blog

Eric Jacobson

companies using a blog for marketing purposes, your business likely will within the next year. According to Emarketer, the proportion of companies using dedicated blogs as a marketing channel—excluding blogs on social networks and microblogs such as Twitter—will rise to 39% in 2011 and to 43% by 2012.

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