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Are You Managing the Dimensions of Your CEO Influence?

Lead Change Blog

Porter and Nitin Nohira published an article titled “How CEOs Manage Time” It was a fascinating insight into how CEOs do and should spend their time. . I drew one aspect from their thinking for a round of recent CEO coaching sessions, focusing on how CEOs exert influence. . How do you influence? .

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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

This, of course, starts with the CEO, and young companies have a broad set of founders and CEOs with different backgrounds, competencies, and demographics at the helm. A Forbes article in 2017 titled “If You Want To Be ‘CEO Material,’ Develop These 15 Traits,” created a laundry-list of traits needed to be a great CEO.

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Leadership vs. Management: What Type of Leader Are You?

Lead from Within

In the world of business, leadership and management are often depicted as two distinct circles. For CEOs and executives, understanding when to embrace leadership and when to lean into management is crucial for success. A remarkable leader doesn’t always make an exceptional manager, and vice versa.

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Talent Management and Preparing Leaders Correctly with Piet Hein Merckens

N2Growth Blog

That is a tough statistic to try to wrap your mind around, and I was interested in Piet’s opinion on how did we get to this point and how there could be some solutions to solve this talent management gap. The report shows that CEOs are hyper-focus on execution. Interview Summary. – Piet Hein Merckens Click To Tweet.

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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. Such hires are often made in the hope that the new boss will implement meaningful change and chart a new course for an organization that is seemingly going in the wrong direction. Lonely at the top.

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How To Rearrange Your Brain for Success

Leading Blog

B RAD JACOBS, CEO and serial entrepreneur—United Rentals and XPO Logistics—has made and kept a few billion dollars and aims to show us how to do the same in How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. By learning to recognize these thought patterns and course-correcting accordingly, I’ve spared myself a lot of trouble.

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Appointing Female CEOs Can Cause White Men To Try Less

The Horizons Tracker

The study found that when female or racial minority CEOs were appointed, it seemed to make white male executives associate with their company less than before. Also, white males’ biases may make them feel that racial minority and female CEOs give them less respect in strategic decision-making processes,” the researchers explain.

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