All articles tagged: ceo

James M. Kouzes, coauthor (with Barry Z. Posner) of The Leadership Challenge, introduces a passage on the importance of remembering where you started that appears in From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership, by Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr.

How Apple’s CEO used narrative and dramatic techniques to manage his message.

The CEO of this nimble cosmetics company explains the advantages of a small size and a coherent strategy.

Hollywood producer, executive, and entrepreneur Peter Guber makes the case that telling purposeful stories is an essential skill for leaders.

“What if” scenarios about a company’s early days — what if it had gone under or had never been founded — can bolster employee morale about the present and future.

Leaders who tell falsehoods tend to swear more, specify less, and lack hesitation in their responses.

The educational pedigree of CEOs has no bearing on the long-term success of their companies.

Jon R. Katzenbach, coauthor of Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (in)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results, introduces a passage on the importance of self-awareness from Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best…and Learn from the Worst, by Robert I. Sutton.

A review of The Rational Optimist, by Matt Ridley.

Rich Teerlink, author, with Lee Ozley, of More Than a Motorcycle, introduces a passage on how managers can empower their workforce, from Freedom, Inc., by Brian M. Carney and Isaac Getz.

A few overinflated CEO compensation packages have led to a surge in overall chief executive pay over the past 20 years.

A review of Gods at War, by Steven M. Davidoff.

Keith Ferrazzi introduces a passage on the influential power of smaller social networks.

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com and author of Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, introduces a lesson on how to rally employees around a unified plan from Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath.

The language that new CEOs use to describe their vision can influence securities analysts’ forecasts of firm performance.

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.