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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. The most valuable part of the book for me was the first chapter on transforming how you use your mind. It allows you to focus on the issue at hand.

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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader. The sudden, unexpected and potentially catastrophic event that threatens a business is a CEO’s greatest challenge. Everyone watched as CEO Tony Hayward made blunder after blunder while BP’s crude killed. Main menu Home. Leadership.

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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

They understand the importance of developing their team’s skills and capabilities, nurturing a culture of continuous learning and professional development. Within the organization, new courses charted by the CEO or Board may have broad implications for effective procurement, and leadership needs to be prepared to respond agilely.

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Board Governance Excellence: The Pinnacle of Organizational Success

N2Growth Blog

A formidable board delineates clear expectations and periodically reviews the performance of the CEO and other apex leaders. Moreover, the board’s critical role extends to risk management, ensuring robust processes are in place to identify, assess, and mitigate risks, bolstering the organization’s success trajectory.

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Let’s Make a Deal: Building a Strong Company Culture is Everyone’s Business

HR Digest

When it comes to building a robust company culture, it’s not just the CEO’s show to run or the HR department’s responsibility to shoulder. The Old Guard: The Top-Down Approach Once upon a time, company culture was more of a top-down decree , a legacy passed down from the CEO’s ivory tower.

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Do You Have “Still Face” Managers in Your Organization?

Michael Lee Stallard

Still face is the name of a landmark experiment conducted by the developmental psychologist Edward Tronick, Director of Child Development Unit and Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Sitting in the audience was a CEO who recognized that she had a still face manager in her organization.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. Bayes is relevant to modern leaders because it can help them develop an approach to uncertainty that is less deterministic and more probabilistic. Here is a simple explanation of it.