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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

According to The Conference Board, CEO tenure has decreased to an average of 8.4 CEO Profiles Crisis Management Operations & Strategy Success CEO Onboarding CEO Succession Planning Dell Computers Dell Computers CEO Micahel Dell Offboarding Succession Planning' years as of 2011 from 10 years in 2000.

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The 6 Secrets to Effective Manager Communications

Strategy Driven

And since study after study tells us that the most important driver to employee satisfaction is the manager-employee relationship, it only stands to reason that companies should be placing their bets on middle managers to hold the ship together. Use a management cascade so that information goes to them before employees.

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Rejoice in Life

Tony Mayo

–George Bernard Shaw quoted in George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works A Critical Biography (authorized) By Archibald Henderson Click here to download a free version of this image to print. File Backup and Sharing by SugarSync Free Conference Calls Google Alerts LinkedIn Mail2Web Exchange Server Online Appointment Scheduling by Tungle.Me

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Are you stuck in a never ending project spin cycle?

Roundtable Talk

Posted on May 12, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment Change champion and Executive Roundtable friend, Peggy Grall recently returned from a conference and shared one of her big takeaways in her recent newsletter Change Bytes. She reported on her research into how organization’s chose, manage and succeed/or not, with projects.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. Vox is a digital publishing company known, in part, for its proprietary content management system. Architectural Innovation.