Posted on 21 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Employers, Flexibility at Work, leadership, Management and Leadership
This is a first class article with some good practical tips you can follow. Authors, Carolyn B. Aiken and Scott P. Keller identify four key functions that collectively define a successful role for the CEO in a transformation: 1. Making the transformation meaningful. People will go to extraordinary lengths for causes they believe in, and […]
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Posted on 20 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Employers, leadership, Management and Leadership
The secret to long-term CEO success, according to David Nadler, is conceiving of a CEO’s tenure as a performance with a series of distinct acts. “Each act requires the CEO to lead, think and behave in fundamentally different ways. The successful ones are those who are able to make the transitions,” says Nadler, a consultant […]
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Posted on 18 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Employers, leadership, Management and Leadership
From the CEO down—how many of your senior leaders will leave by 2010? If you answer more than half, you’re not alone. According to a recent study, 50 percent of all companies surveyed believed that more than half of their senior leaders would leave in the next 5 years. Who will assume these leaders’ roles? […]
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Posted on 18 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Employers, leadership, Management and Leadership
From Knowledge@Wharton: When Circuit City in 2007 that it was laying off 3,400 workers so it could rehire new ones at lower salaries, it raised the question of just what strategic benefits the company — or any company — expects to achieve through employee downsizing. Clearly these benefits depend on the underlying strength of the […]
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Posted on 16 January 2009. Tags: Career Management, childcare, Employers, Life Balance, News
Despite the US bent, this Knowledge at Wharton article is thought provoking. As recently as 1990, nearly 70% of newspaper carriers in the U.S. were teens. But that number dropped to 18% in 2004, and more declines are likely. Although reasons for teens being edged out of this formerly youth-dominated profession are specific to the […]
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Posted on 16 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Employers, Management and Leadership
“The Director’s Dilemma” is a monthly newsletter issued by Julie Garland McLellan, an expert governance adviser to boards and directors on the complex and challenging issues they face. Julie uses her experience and depth of knowledge in corporate governance to show boards with limited resources how to be more effective through practical governance innovation and […]
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