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The Downside of Being Trusted: On Monday, I posted about strategic customer relationships in "Do Your Customers Value You?" In that post, I present the observations of the experts at CSO Insights that there are five levels of customer relationships: Approved Vendor Preferred Supplier Solutions Consultant Strategic Contributor...; Tags: Geoffrey James, Onoropu, surety; Blog posts 2008-02-20
The Myth of Splitting the CEO/Chair jobs: By now, it's the perceived wisdom that people who are chief executive officers should not also be chairmen of the board. Institutional Shareholder Services and all sorts of rating agencies state, with complete conviction, that the job should be split--at all times, and at all companies. But...; Tags: Corporate governance, Recruitment & Selection, William J. Holstein, board, job, Lafley; Blog posts 2008-02-15
What's the Replacement Term for "CEO"?: So many serious topics this week. How about something a little lighter? Back in the early days of the industrial revolution, the head of a corporation was called a "Manager." Over time, though, the title became watered down from being...; Tags: Geoffrey James; Blog posts 2008-02-08
Why Directors Should Not Become CEOs?: The Wall Street Journal's Joanne S. Lublin says today that in the latest version of management musical chairs, outside directors are moving insde as chi'ef executive officers. Because it's such a hassle to access the Journal site, here's the jist of what she...; Tags: Corporate governance, Wall Street Journal, William J. Holstein, board; Blog posts 2008-02-04
Nell Minow: What Went Wrong at Citi, Merrill: Nell Minow, editor of The Corporate Library, has been a gadfly and corporate critic for many years. Her No. 1 issue these days is compensation for chief executive officers. And she's right that mismanagement of CEO compensation played a role in what went wrong at the top of some of...; Tags: Benefits, Financial services, Citigroup Inc., William J. Holstein, Nell Minow, compensation; Blog posts 2008-02-21

HBR IdeaCast: Where Does Strategic Innovation Come From?: By the time you hear about a groundbreaking idea, your competition has heard about it too — and may even be using it. George Stalk describes how managers can collect faint ideas, watch trends before they hit, and gather the necessary information to decide which ideas will give your business...; Tags: Strategy, BNET staff, George Stalk, HBR IdeaCast; Blog posts 2008-02-13
Study: Many Directors Think CEOs Are Overpaid. Will They Fix It?: CEO pay is "too high in most cases," say about one in three directors of U.S.-based public companies in a just-released survey by Heidrick & Struggles International and the Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. The survey also found...; Tags: Benefits, Corporate governance, William J. Holstein, compensation, board; Blog posts 2008-02-05
Practical Advice for Small Company CEOs Going Global: Say you're the CEO of a company ranging from say $30 million to $250 million a year and you've never being able to figure out a way to go global. That's unfortunate but not fatal. You still have time. And in view of what's happening to the domestic U.S. economy,...; Tags: William J. Holstein, V.P.; Blog posts 2008-01-17
Lunch With the CEO: One of a CEOs main jobs is to maintain good relations with all of the company's various stakeholders. Most CEOs do a good job from the investor side and some do a good job from the supplier side. Few CEOs do enough to maintain good relations on the employee side....; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, CEO, job, supplier; White papers
Integrating Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management Activities to Gain Wealth: CEOs' Perspectives: The study presented in this paper explored means and ways that can help CEOs achieve wealth for their firms in the era of globalization. Using a sample of CEOs of MNCs, the findings of this study indicated that the majority of the CEOs agreed that many of the activities undertaken...; Tags: Gale Group, strategic management, CEO, entrepreneurship, globalization, network; White papers
Dismissal Case Study: A major national charity appointed a new chief executive. Warned that she might be a bit of a loose canon, one of the trustees was nominated to supervise her work on behalf of the trustee board who were very keen to be kept informed in detail of all new initiatives...; Tags: termination, CEO; Case studies
Otential Barriers to Organizations That Put Their Human Resource People First: Exploratory Study: The study presented in this paper explores certain management practices in which an organization treats its human resources as the most important asset. Despite evidence of a direct relationship between a company's performance (e.g., turnover) and its commitment to these management practices, organizations are moving away from these principles due...; Tags: Gale Group, management practice, barrier, Human Resources, CEO, asset, performance; White papers
American and Armenian CEOs' Perception of the Role of Strategic Leadership in Achieving and Maintaining Global Competitiveness: The study presented in this paper investigates the perceptions of American and Armenian CEOs toward the role of a suggested strategic leadership model developed by Ireland and Hitt in achieving and maintaining global competitiveness. The results of this study indicates that the surveyed CEOs in both countries agree that the...; Tags: Strategy, Gale Group, core competency, human capital, CEO, leadership, vision; White papers
CEO Isolation: People at all stages of professional development need coaches to help them. Chief executives frequently use coaches to bounce ideas around; entrepreneurs use their coach to help them think strategically about the business, and coaches help others sort out career decisions. A Coach can be one's sounding board, support system,...; Tags: coach, professional development, CEO, career, board; White papers
Do You Sound Like A CEO Behind A Microphone?: Like public speaking, the art of effective business-meeting communication is very much a learnable skill. If you don't know how to communicate well, you're limiting your company and your employees. Most entrepreneurs find speech-making terrifying or a waste of time. Too many CEOs see dealing with the media or making...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., public speaking, microphone, CEO; White papers
Automotive CEOs Warn Low Cost Competition Is Key Threat, According to PricewaterhouseCoopers Annual Global CEO Survey: CEOs of automotive companies see low-cost competition as the biggest threat to the future of their sector. The survey reported in this document found 73 percent believe such competition will threaten the revenue growth of their company over the next 12 months. Of all the sectors canvassed in the survey,...; Tags: Marketing research, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, survey, CEO, talent; White papers
Do Motivation and Equity Ownership Matter in Board of Directors' Evaluation of CEO Performance: The role of the board of directors has received much attention in the last several years due to the increasing salaries of Chief Executive Officers (CEO) and board scandals like the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) debacle. Specifically the effectiveness of the board has been questioned as a useful governance...; Tags: Corporate governance, board, CEO, motivation, decision-making, equity, shareholder, performance; White papers
CEO and Senior Managers Are Critical to Employee Satisfaction: Why is the CEO so important? The CEO has the most influence over the entire organization and its culture and can usually make things happen. Although the immediate supervisor or manager is the key person for day-to-day communication, the CEO is the decision maker at the top of the organizational...; Tags: Leadership, organizational structure, CEO, leader, supervisor; White papers
The New CEO Philosophy Regarding Boards: For many years, CEOs regarded boards as necessary evils. Their goal was to stack the board with people who wouldn't challenge management's authority. After Enron and Sarbanes-Oxley, boards veered in the other direction--they included more independenty directors who were more inclined to challenge and question a CEO and his or...; Tags: Corporate governance, William J. Holstein, board; Blog posts 2008-01-22
The Case For Global Diversity: Four Tips On What Works: Chief executive officers and top managers have been giving lip service to the concept of ethnic and sexual diversity for many years--with only scant results. Many boards have a token African-American and a token woman, but their presence has no impact on the organization. The number of women on boards...; Tags: Corporate governance, William J. Holstein, board; Blog posts 2008-01-25