All articles tagged: ceo

Barbara Kellerman, author of Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders, introduces an excerpt on dealing with opponents of change from The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Techniques for Changing Your Organization and the World, by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky.

The most important task for corporate leaders, says consultant and author Steve Zaffron, is to reorient the minds of their employees toward a positive vision of the future.

Trade liberalization policies increase competition and lead to flatter firms.

CEO Andrew Prozes on why his company needed to transform itself to survive in the highly competitive online data and content marketplace.

The practice of assigning letter grades to jobs has had perverse consequences. Aligning jobs with accountability is a much better idea.

Japan’s little-known trading companies are buying startup technology businesses in the U.S., hoping to catch the next wave of American economic growth.

Although it’s commonly assumed that high-profile CEOs will provide valuable oversight to firms by sitting on their boards, companies shouldn’t expect them to improve firm performance.

Compensation consultants, often hired by companies with deficient corporate governance, rarely prevent the boards of such companies from overpaying executives.

Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter on why urgency in the face of change matters — right now.

If we hate it so much, why do we all use it?

When people make commitments about the future, they are more likely to appeal to their more rational selves. According to the authors, commitment schemes modify people’s behavior more effectively than simple incentive adjustments such as “sin” taxes on cigarettes.

Booz Allen Hamilton’s sixth annual CEO Succession Study reveals that turnover among chief executives has leveled off and that they now operate in a world of more active investors and involved boards. To survive in this “new normal,” CEOs must pay attention to all of their constituents.

Rules for marketing success in the digital age