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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes. Uncommon Greatness is the key many leaders have been searching for their entire career. What these leaders need is a fresh take on how to unlock their full potential.

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Beyond the Paycheck: Could Curtailing Executive Overcompensation Also Curtail Bad Boss Behaviors™? (H.R.6191)

Modern Servant Leader

This recently introduced bill, officially known as the Curtailing Executive Overcompensation bill, targets the widening chasm between CEO and worker pay. Since 1978, CEO pay has soared by over 1209%, drastically outpacing the growth of average worker wages. The data backing this move is telling. Amazon paid $13.7

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Beyond the Paycheck: Could Curtailing Executive Overcompensation Also Curtail Bad Boss Behaviors™? (H.R.6191)

Modern Servant Leader

This recently introduced bill, officially known as the Curtailing Executive Overcompensation bill, targets the widening chasm between CEO and worker pay. Since 1978, CEO pay has soared by over 1209%, drastically outpacing the growth of average worker wages. The data backing this move is telling. Amazon paid $13.7

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Sleepless in Silicon Valley: What Keeps CEOs Up At Night

HR Digest

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep. times more likely to trust their leaders. “Our

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The CEO Next Door

Coaching Tip

THE CEO NEXT DOOR is based on an in-depth analysis of over 2,600 leaders drawn from a database of more than 17,00O CEO's and C-suite executives. CEO's are destined for greatness from an early age but 70% of CEO's didn't set out to become CEO's early in life. . they are decisive. they adapt boldly.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. Effective leaders set the right tone at the top, which becomes the organization’s ethical standards. The CEO is responsible for tone and culture. An example of a CEO setting the wrong tone and culture is Travis Kalanick, the founder and former CEO of Uber.

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CEO Turnover Rate Has Hit a Record High

HR Digest

According to a new study by Strategy&, the consulting arm of PwC, CEO turnovers reached 17.5 The overall rate of forced CEO turnovers was in line with recent trends at 20 percent. The post CEO Turnover Rate Has Hit a Record High appeared first on The HR Digest. Although the reasons for departures in 2018 were different.

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