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On the minds of boards…
EisnerAmper’s survey among 250 board members found reputational risk at the top of board concerns like last year. The survey was conducted in early 2014. What is surprising about the findings is the...
View ArticleInsider-Outsiders as CEO Candidates
We all know about boards choosing “insider” or “outsider” CEOs as successors. For years, there’s been debates about which is better and usually insider CEOs take the lead. I used to track CEO...
View ArticleHigher-Ambition Boards
A client turned me onto the concept of Higher-Ambition leaders and I’ve kept the article close. It outlines what drives great corporate reputations and the kinds of CEOs that lead them. Higher-ambition...
View ArticleA new CEO at Cisco, explained
It is big news when a long-standing CEO steps down or sideways as John Chambers of Cisco has. What a long run. He has been CEO of Cisco for 20 years. Although it was a surprise to me, it was carefully...
View ArticleCEO Succession — What’s it Worth?
Every year I look forward to what was once Booz’s CEO succession research but now under the name Strategy& because they always tackle a different angle of this daunting and tricky transition...
View ArticleCEOs committing to digital’s promise
In a new McKinsey executive report, turns out that CEOs are most often mentioned as standing behind the digital revolutions in their companies. And over the three years of the study, CEO sponsorship of...
View ArticleOutsider CEOs back in favor?
How is it that trends have a way of slowing down and raising questions as to whether the pendulum might just swing back in the opposite direction? In the ongoing survey by strategy& (originally...
View ArticleCEO Bad Behavior
I have been derelict with my blog so the guilt is driving me to spend some time today to post about a fascinating research analysis of when CEOs engage in questionable behavior and how the board...
View ArticleThe moral kickback to CEO activism
As you can tell, I’ve been supremely interested in CEO activism of late. Obviously, I would be since we launched research on the topic and it seems to have struck a chord. Happily, a friend of mine who...
View ArticleReputation Trends for 2017
Here we are at a most pivotal point in America’s history. Donald Trump, perhaps one of the most surprising people to have ever been elected President of the United States, will soon be inaugurated. For...
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