All articles tagged: ceo

There are certain rules to follow if you want to grow your Twittersphere.

It’s time to reconsider the benefits and risks of combining the CEO and chairman roles.

Ed Whitacre rescued a couple of iconic American companies, but a few years too late for my family.

It traditionally takes months for new leaders to make a positive impact. That’s simply much too long to wait.

The road to sustained success begins with the answer to this simple question: “Who are we?”

Harvard Business School professor Cynthia Montgomery speaks with Booz & Company partner Ken Favaro about why strategy needs to be reimagined, and how a leader can help define what a business is and why it matters.

Systems therapist David Kantor speaks with Booz & Company partner Rutger von Post about how leaders can tap into "structural dynamics" to create better-performing teams.

A review of Private Empire, by Steve Coll.

Booz & Company and strategy+business have introduced an online survey to explore the relationship between management theory, corporate identity, and high performance.

James A. Ogilvy, author of Creating Better Futures: Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow, introduces a passage on the limits of executive compensation from Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business, by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia.

Stock options lead to more deals, but not to better performance.

A manager’s effectiveness depends not only on using e-mail and other electronic communication, but also on learning to shut it down.

Jim Stengel, author of Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s Greatest Companies, introduces an excerpt presenting tactics for protecting your market share from Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks, by Tim Calkins.

Some troubling signs are found on the financial front when CEOs’ experience comes from beyond the corporate world.

Stephen M.R. Covey, author of Smart Trust: Creating Prosperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-Trust World, introduces a lesson in structured listening from Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations, by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind.

A review of The End, by Ian Kershaw.

Compensation at public companies is only marginally higher than at private firms of the same size.

What is a business strategy? It is the result of choices made to maximize long-term value.

Personal connections between borrowers and bankers produce better results for both sides.

Behind many a successful product, there’s a sharply focused intention to improve lives.

A review of Once upon a Car, by Bill Vlasic.

Ronald Heifetz, coauthor, with Marty Linsky and Alexander Grashow, of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World, introduces a lesson in leadership from Inside Coca-Cola: A CEO’s Life Story of Building the World’s Most Popular Brand, by Neville Isdell with David Beasley.

strategy+business published its first “Best Business Books” section in Winter 2001. Here, in retrospect, is the book from each year that we think was most significant.

Three leadership principles turn inherent conflicts into long-term growth.

Fixed-term contracts encourage R&D and capital expenses, but only up to a point.