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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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Effective Meeting Models

CO2

Our ability to predict the future is getting more and more difficult as the population grows, markets shift, competitors switch strategies, and systems interact. If you’re looking for a new approach to weekly meetings, try using the 5/15 report developed by CEO Yvon Chouinard. They know where they’re headed and why.

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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. He wasnt a process manager.

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Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies

Harvard Business Review

Town hall meetings are organized, employees are told to change their behavior, balanced scorecards are reformulated, and budgets are set aside to support initiatives that fit the new strategy. “We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. Communicate your logic.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

Take Silver Cross’s joint operating committee with RIC, which convenes on a quarterly basis to review Balanced Scorecard metrics on quality of care, patient experience, volume, and efficiency. The Silver Cross CEO and each partner organization’s CEO often phone each other (as a routine or an informal check-in).

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Your Employees Are Not Mind Readers

Harvard Business Review

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. This scorecard defined the "what."

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

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