Posted on 23 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Flexibility at Work, leadership, Management and Leadership
Research has shown that star performers often falter when they move to new companies. Further analysis reveals that’s true primarily of men. The research showed that male analysts built up greater firm and team-specific human capital, investing more in the internal networks and unique capabilities and resources of the firms where they worked. In contrast […]
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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 17 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, leadership, Management and Leadership
While changing jobs and shifting careers is hardly unusual in today’s business world, Russ Palmer is somewhat unique in that he has been the leader of three very different organisations over the past several decades. He was CEO of Touche Ross (now Deloitte & Touche) for 10 years, dean of Wharton for seven years, and […]
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