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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

Which brings us back to those folks in the corporate driver’s seat — the CEO. Doesn’t much of a CEO’s job consist of being on the receiving end of ever-increasing floods of data that can now be gleaned in real time from inputs around the globe? CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. So, are CEOs really necessary anymore?

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Salty to Sweet: The Transformation of Mount Franklin Foods

Change Starts Here

A revolving leadership door had ushered four CEOs in and out in two years. When CEO Gary Ricco joined the company in May of 2011, the company had struggled for years to turn a profit. Dubbed the Transformation Team, the group of 35 managers would be responsible for developing and executing the strategy of the organization.

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Effective Meeting Models

CO2

Monthly staff meetings are usually reserved for reviewing financial performance, balance scorecard objectives, and major actions that have been forecasted in the annual strategic planning meetings. As a result, the organization never truly deals with these issues and begins to develop work-arounds and work-avoidance behaviors.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. If the CEO doesnt play this role, process improvement stays comfortably within functional boundaries.

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To Create Long-Term Shareholder Value Start with Employee Satisfaction

Harvard Business Review

There is a simple but significant way to help achieve that goal: Evaluate and compensate CEOs, at least partly, on their ability to create a culture of aligned, engaged employees. That would require, as Dominic Barton observes , balancing financial metrics with measures that track the ability to forge internal alignment.

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Making Time to Really Listen to Your Patients

Harvard Business Review

The professional development should be engaging and dynamic so that adult learners seek it out because they view it as worthwhile. Perhaps one should be a story of success (what we did well for a patient) and another of a failure (where we must improve). Offer a communications curriculum to clinical and non-clinical staff.

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Your Employees Are Not Mind Readers

Harvard Business Review

Collaboratively Develop The "What" And The "How". When I was CEO of Campbell Soup Company, we used a balanced scorecard to create an explicit understanding of each employee in terms of what they were expected to accomplish, including financial objectives, market share objectives and key project objectives.