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The Changing Landscape of C-Suite Executive Tenures: Insights and Implications

N2Growth Blog

A study by Equilar reveals that the median tenure among S&P 500 companies has decreased by 20% from six years in 2013 to 4.8 In 2013, the average CEO tenure stood at 7.6 Factors affecting global trends, such as technological changes and shifts in stakeholder expectations, are also contributing to this trend. years in 2022.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Best Leadership Books of 2013. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Those who had to navigate their way through large firms seemed to excel at emotional intelligence—the ability to read others’ emotions and respond appropriately. Innovation Capital. Moreover, it’s hard. Steve Jobs; Elon Musk).

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

General Martin Dempsey, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2011, shared in a 2013 speech entitled “The Military Needs to Reach Out To Civilians” that members of the military don’t have a “monopoly on service or sacrifice.”

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Research: Technology Is Only Making Social Skills More Important

Harvard Business Review

Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work.

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How Do We Combat Ageism? By Valuing Wisdom as Much as Youth.

Harvard Business Review

In many industries, especially in technology, you may feel “old” at 35 — even though you might continue to work full-time until you hit 75. In early 2013 I returned to the workforce in my mid-fifties as a senior exec with tech startup Airbnb. They fear becoming increasingly invisible, or even being cast aside.

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What Happens to Mental Health at Work When Our Devices Know How We Feel?

Harvard Business Review

In the UK alone, a 2014 report from the chief medical officer for England estimates, the number of sick days lost to “stress, depression, and anxiety” increased by 24% from 2009 to 2013. Soon, face- and voice- recognition technology will almost certainly be good enough to provide a richer experience to these and other use cases.

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