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How Stress Ages CEOs

The Horizons Tracker

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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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. ” Companies must change their focus from products and processes to the values shared with customers. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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The Big Picture of Business – Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth.

Strategy Driven

Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. ’ Companies must change their focus from products and processes to the values shared with customers. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

Harvard Business Review

But Motorola’s markets were transforming in the mid-2000s, and chief executive Greg Brown and his board decided in March 2008 that the company should be split in two: Motorola Mobility would take its mobile phones and related devices, and Motorola Solutions its mission-critical data and communication products.

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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. 2) Smoldering Crisis: Product defects, mismanagement, rumors and scandals, workplace safety, etc. Crisis Leadership is the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low risk.