In the CEO Afterlife

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Stop Managing Your Career

In the CEO Afterlife

More than ever, people are seeking mentors, “branding” themselves and carefully managing their careers in order to dash up that quintessential corporate ladder. So what is wrong with managing your career? Honorable career management must be anchored in the right values. My beef is not the end point; it is the means to that end.

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Proof That Less is More

In the CEO Afterlife

Successful multi-product companies in various markets achieve success by narrowing their businesses into manageable units. Last year, Booz & Company conducted a broad study amongst 1,800 executives on the power of focus in business. We use to call them SBU’s, strategic business units. Procter and Gamble do this like no other.

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Tips On Honing A Culture Of Winning Through Focus by Martin Zwilling

In the CEO Afterlife

Your success or failure must be quantified by such key business indicators as market share, financial ratios, brand awareness, new product launches, and execution within the deadlines. Rather you must outsmart the giant with innovative thinking, pivoting on a dime, and impeccable execution. Well-articulated goals and metrics.

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Why Uncontrollable Factors are Norm to Great CEOs

In the CEO Afterlife

But in the context of taking charge and leading human beings during major or minor crises, every chief executive is blessed with the luxuries of time, subordinate counsel, years of related experience, and knowhow imparted by pundits in thousands of books, journals and case studies. Am I implying that leading a business enterprise is easy?

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The Difference between Strategists and Strategic Planners

In the CEO Afterlife

I’ve met both over my long career as an executive, a consultant, and a board member. They are staffers, not line managers. Internal Strategic Planning managers do the same thing. Strategic Planners collaborate with management to uncover strategic direction. The ramification of this incentive is easy to deduce.

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The Strategy of Hustle

In the CEO Afterlife

The best ones influenced my mode of operation as an executive of Jacobs Suchard , the maker of coffee and chocolate brands, Jacobs , Nabob , Toblerone , Suchard and Côte d’Or. When all is said and done, regardless of whether a company is a master strategist or a proponent of the hustle mindset, superior execution is critical.

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The Latest in Corporate Bail Outs – Women

In the CEO Afterlife

Today, there’s a venerable list of female executives who have shattered that glass and gone on to illustrious careers as successful CEOs. Women are ditching upper-management positions and bailing out before breaking through the glass ceiling. The demands on C-suite executives have never been so challenging. Not necessarily so.

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