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The Stresses Of Leadership Shortens Life Expectancy

The Horizons Tracker

Hostile takeovers. The researchers framed their analysis through the lens of hostile takeovers, which they reasoned cause considerable stress in the boardroom. “The health implications of stress are a very under-studied dimension for many jobs,” the researchers explain. “We

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How Stress Ages CEOs

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A number of states enacted laws to prohibit hostile takeovers of firms, with this appearing to significantly reduce the stress experienced by CEOs. The authors note that before the recession, there appeared to be a much smaller gap between distressed and non-distressed CEOs, with the gap staying fairly stable.

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12 Reasons Crisis Leadership Trumps Crisis Management

N2Growth Blog

1) Sudden Crisis: Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, workplace violence, hostile takeovers, environmental spills, technology disruptions, etc. While traditional leadership is innovatively structured on influence where constructs shape strategy (structuralist perspective), Crisis Leadership is empirically?based driven, action?