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Insightful Analysis: What Sets Our C-Suite Evaluation Process Apart

N2Growth Blog

In summary: Our recommendations are based on a thorough analysis of the evaluation results, ensuring that they are grounded in data and evidence. The post Insightful Analysis: What Sets Our C-Suite Evaluation Process Apart appeared first on N2Growth.

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How SWOT Analysis Harms Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Take the most popular of them, the SWOT analysis, where you try to figure out the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats facing your business. Martha, the CEO of a Midwestern healthcare company for whom I started consulting in early 2016, showed me her SWOT analysis from mid-2015.

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What Matters When Hiring External CEOs

The Horizons Tracker

Hiring a CEO from outside is a common practice, with around a third of new hires coming from outside the hiring firm. The researchers analyzed 1,275 CEO appointments between 2001 and 2014, and found that neither the length nor breadth of the new CEOs’ experience had any bearing on the performance in their new firm.

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Startups Should Merge CEO And Chairman Roles

The Horizons Tracker

It’s traditionally believed to be good corporate governance to have different people occupying the CEO and chairman roles within a company, but this is far from ubiquitous, as countries in Scandinavia tend to combine the two roles. The post Startups Should Merge CEO And Chairman Roles first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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How Stress Ages CEOs

The Horizons Tracker

Stress is well known for the harmful effect it has on our health, and CEOs are equally well known to suffer from stress more than most. It perhaps stands to reason, therefore, that the health of CEOs may suffer more than the average worker. CEOs who serve under stricter governance die significantly earlier,” the researchers write.

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Five Ways to Build Your Strategic Muscles

Next Level Blog

How does that analysis of what your vision of the future is and what your organization needs to do to skate to where the puck will be? Listen to podcast interviews with CEOs and other senior executives and thought leaders inside and outside of your industry. Have a long-term vision : Think in years and decades, not quarters and years.

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Investors Can Influence Firms Via Dear CEO Letters

The Horizons Tracker

Such is the popularity of CEO letters, famed biographer Walter Isaacson wrote his latest book largely around the letters to stakeholders from former Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. They started their “Dear CEO” letters in 2012 and have prompted other investment firms to follow suit. ” Influencing others. Spreading the word.

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