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A Survey of How 1,000 CEOs Spend Their Day Reveals What Makes Leaders Successful

Harvard Business Review

Some have been of small samples, or relied heavily on the researchers’ interpretation to classify different “types” of executive. Another 10% is spent on personal matters, and 8% is spent traveling. Previous studies have typically had limitations. What Do CEOs Do All Day? Is One CEO Type Always Better?

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling. Their advice can be invaluable.

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What We Can Learn About the Economics of Discrimination from a Chilling Study of 1930s Germany

Harvard Business Review

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? of German gross national product, a first-order economic loss.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

When you consider all of the retreats, travel, reading, meeting prep time, transactions, and committee meetings involved, it is a wonder anyone serves at all. In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market.

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Cisco's Flip Flop and (Mis)Managing the Obvious

Harvard Business Review

Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. How a blue chip technology innovator invests well over $700 million acquiring, developing, distributing and marketing a consumer digicam without a clear path connecting it to the most popular wireless medium around escapes me. This was obvious.

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The 'Invisibles' in Business Performance

QAspire

It means what role is leadership playing in making sure that all actions of people on projects/initiatives are in line with the values set out. When people buy these important things in, leadership is said to be successful in aligning people. August Leadership Carnival By Tanmay , August 6, 2010 @ 1:23 pm @working girl (Laura) - Yes.

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Interviews with 59 Black Female Executives Explore Intersectional Invisibility and Strategies to Overcome It

Harvard Business Review

Black women continue to be sorely underrepresented in leadership roles in corporate America. chief marketing officer, senior vice president) during the first interview and 51% were still at that rank or higher during the second interview. Currently, they make up 12.7% of the U.S. population, yet they represent only 1.3%