In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 1, 2012

In my blog of last week, entitled A Monster of an Idea , I gave kudos to the Monster Beverage Corporation for becoming a ridiculously -profitable, high-growth $2 billion dollar enterprise despite ignoring the Holy Grail of marketing commandments. A market did not exist for his brainchild; Mateschitz believed he could create one.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. But without effective leadership, corporate purpose feels abstract and disconnected from an employee’s day-to-day job.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. But without effective leadership, corporate purpose feels abstract and disconnected from an employee’s day-to-day job.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 22, 2015

Here’s your personal brand strategy template: Your Target Group: How They Currently View You: How You Want them to View You: Your Brand Benefit: Reason to believe the Benefit: Brand Character: To help you fill in the blanks, I’m going to include a sample. I’ll call him Joe.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Some went on to dominate a market without any previous background in it. All Ben Milne, co-founder and CEO of Dwolla had was a burning desire to solve an existing problem. In most of the companies I’ve worked, one of my first actions was to speak to a representative sample of customers to identify potential product improvements.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

What makes a CEO effective? Yet we still know fairly little about how CEOs behave day-to-day and how their behavior relates to the success or failure of the companies they run. Some have been of small samples, or relied heavily on the researchers’ interpretation to classify different “types” of executive.

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LDRLB

JUNE 22, 2010

Prior to entering the private sector as a researcher and consultant, Rick spent a number of years as a university professor where he taught courses in research methods, statistics, marketing, communication, and psychology. Leadership trust' He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State in 1987. How did you define trust in your study?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

When asked why companies don’t talk more about the long term, CEOs often complain about the short-term orientation of investors. This conundrum is finally being tackled by the Strategic Investor Initiative of CECP, a CEO-level organization where one of us works. ” argument for why a company should deliver a long-term plan.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? This can be done by building alliances of support, having reputable endorsements, establishing high quantity, and using means such as discounts or samples to build a market presence.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

A CEO succession presents a time of enormous corporate uncertainty — and thus a time when investors may become especially skittish. But our research shows that new CEOs can allay investors’ fears by talking about their strategic plans for the company. billion gain in market value. on presentation day, or around $2.4

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Atta is the CEO of Ex-Consultants Agency where he leads the private equity and venture capital practice. Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. There’s a way to design an evidence-based, data-driven hiring strategy to boost your competitive edge.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

One of the most important and challenging decisions faced by corporate directors is whether to promote a new CEO from within or to hire new talent when a CEO leaves the company. Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Shortly thereafter he was forced to retire, due to GE’s mandatory retirement policy for CEOs turning 65. More than a third of S&P 500 firms have a mandatory retirement policy for their CEO. ​​ The background here is that firms with older CEOs tend to perform worse than those with younger ones.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. We explore this question by looking at CEOs’ decisions about corporate diversification over the last three decades. To test our argument, we collected data on 2,031 CEOs who ran 640 large U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

This ability to tweak offerings is a skill that most organizations need to have, according to our recent analysis of data from 180 CEOs. But unlike Apple, most companies don't rely on the CEO to do the tweaking. Specifically, CEOs report that they identify two types of "tweaker talent" within their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

For example, talented people are often excluded from leadership positions if they belong to the group that faces discrimination. Do corporations become less profitable when they adopt discriminatory attitudes and exclude highly qualified individuals from leadership roles?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A CEO whom we’ll call Melissa was exasperated. Having assessed over 2,000 CEOs and over 18,000 C-suite leaders since 1995, we are struck by how often careers of talented executives stall or even derail because of seemingly trivial issues, many of which are utterly fixable. .” June Buck/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Often, our research shows, the biggest obstacles are the entrepreneurs themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. Specifically we studied whether or not board service increased an executive’s likelihood of receiving a promotion, becoming a CEO, and/or receiving a pay increase.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? There was quite a range, though: the youngest in our sample was 32 years old when he became COO, while the oldest three took office at the age of 58. The COOs in our sample had worked in the same company for 12 years, on average, before their appointment.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

If your company''s management team isn''t as global as its target markets, you aren''t alone. Only 14% of the world´s 500 largest corporations by revenue, the Fortune Global 500 , are led by a CEO who hails from a country other than the one where the corporation is headquartered, as Herman Vantrappen and I reported this June in Fortune.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Many know and use the nine-box model , for example, to map past performance against future leadership potential. The latter trait in particular is something Korn Ferry research has identified as an important way to identify employees with leadership potential.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. How People Get Ahead. What were the critical events, and what lessons did they learn?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

People will continue to debate Procter & Gamble''s move to replace CEO Bob McDonald with his immediate predecessor A.G. Where was its leadership bench? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Is P&G no longer an academy company? Methodology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

To answer this question, we evaluated a sample of 55 different heads of strategy and looked more closely at 11 who were particularly successful and 10 who were at the other end of the spectrum. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. Here’s what we learned.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Five years earlier, when he’d stepped into his role, he’d been focused on growing the company that his father, Eric — the previous CEO — had founded. Doing Just Fine.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Sample stocks in the ETF are the 100 companies which have the highest social contribution per share, and they are selected from a larger sample of about 300 companies that release their social responsibility reports and reassessed annually. His friend, Dr. Shiping Liu, founder and CEO of Global Business Intelligence Consulting Co.,

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Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Over the past two years, we’ve convened health care leaders at roundtables and other events to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, both inside their organization and from the external market. More than three-quarters said they are on a good path to successfully compete in their local markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

While it’s tempting to dismiss turnover as a fact of life in today’s fast-moving job market, new research shows otherwise. The first is the quality of a company’s senior leadership. Even the most inspiring CEOs may not increase worker loyalty if individual employees feel that their careers have stagnated.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

To find out if this is the case, a good place to start is with what I call the True Value Test : Take a representative sample of your organization''s priority target customers. If the answers are inconsistent, or don''t reflect leadership''s intended positioning strategy, that can indicate one of two issues. Lead with Issues.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Less research, however, has been done on the presence of migrant and immigrant leadership in corporate America. — for example the study of the ethnic composition of boards in corporate America by Richie Zweigenhaft — studies of immigrant leadership talent are still scarce. executive leadership. As of 2009, U.S.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Social media center of excellence leadership skills ; including cross-functional team coordination, policy development and management, and governance, among others. 28% of CEOs say social business is vital to their organizations. – IBM 2012 CEO study. Harvard Business Review Analytics Services. About Mark.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The new ideology would not see markets as an end in themselves; instead, it would value global trade and investment to the extent that they contributed to a flourishing middle class, not just to greater aggregate national wealth. Its scribblers aren't in "a garret somewhere."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. We wanted to explore whether the diversity of CEOs’ networks might affect their firms.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Corporate Culture ‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. People will stop honoring or identifying with the organization. Cautionary tales abound. If so, how?

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. Sometimes this distancing happens gradually, and sometimes it happens quickly–soon after a bad hire, a failure of leadership, or a divisive decision/event.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

We all know the stereotypes: Great CEOs are extroverted. Which traits actually differentiate CEOs from other executives? And, most important, which attributes separate successful CEOs from other CEOs? There is a great deal of conjecture and mythology about CEOs and the attributes that define their success.

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