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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 Key Trends and Considerations In the last three years, there has been a noticeable shift towards shorter, more performance-driven executive terms.

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13 Leadership Temptations (to Conquer in 2013)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton 13 Leadership Temptations To Conquer In 2013 We're starting a new year, with fresh possibilities, and it is a good time to think about our leadership values. What do we believe? How do we treat others? What matters to us? Can people determine our values just by watching how we treat people?

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Hope Is What People Need from Leaders Today

Michael Lee Stallard

Brooks differentiated the terms this way in an article in The Atlantic : “Optimism is the belief that things will turn out all right; hope makes no such assumption but is a conviction that one can act to make things better in some way.” In terms of the pandemic, there is a realistic basis to be optimistic.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. The problem is leadership on autopilot.

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Are Firms Becoming More Short-Termist?

The Horizons Tracker

Short-termism is seldom regarded as a positive attribute for managers to adopt, especially at a time of disruption and change. Alas, research from the Cornell Business School suggests that American firms, and indeed investors and policymakers, are actually becoming more and more short-term oriented. Discounted returns.

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Why Being an Ethical Leader Can Help Your Organization

Great Leadership By Dan

The trouble is many organisations prove to be rather short of such people. Whether in terms of profits, innovation or retention of staff. It found: “The top 10 companies in terms of empathy increased in financial value more than twice as much as the bottom 100.” Ethical leaders pay close attention to engagement. Surprising eh?

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. Sam Walsh: The Rio Tinto business, in relative terms, is the strongest of the Mining Houses.

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