I wanted to share this piece I wrote for Harvard Business Review on what we have learned about CEO and corporate activism so far. We've been consistently monitoring the dynamic of CEOs speaking out on some of the hot button issues of the day. In...
You ought to read this article on what makes some CEOs successful and others not. There are lots of interesting things to learn from their 10 year old research study called the CEO Genome Project. The researchers were able to identify what makes a high...
Fall is here, or at least the end of summer. I have to get back into posting on my blog. So here I am on a sunny Sunday before I dive into some work before Monday morning arrives.I wanted to post about this fantastic interview...
Bill Gates' recommended books are definitely worth a regular peruse. I had seen it awhile back on his blog, Gates Notes, but forgot about it until today's mention in The New York Times. He explains why he likes the books he does and it is...
New CEOs. A topic I think about and work on a lot! Because how CEOs are transitioned reflects on the reputation of the company. And because our new research found that 45% of a company’s reputation is attributed to the reputation of the CEO. Last weekend...
Just returned from Mexico City where Weber Shandwick opened a new office as part of our LatAm network. We held a terrific event to officially officially declare that we are open for business! At the spectacular breakfast event, we released our results on CEO and corporate...
It seems that CEOs are inching towards the deeper end of the CEO activism spectrum. In my last post, I mentioned the emergence of this slow-boil trend but this was before the recent tragic event in the US that has prodded several CEOs to call for...
One of the findings from our study on the CEO Reputation Premium has to do with the perceived strength of respondents' corporate reputations. Less than 4 in 10 global executives (38%) said that their corporate reputations were "very" strong. The fact that another one in two (48%)...
In our new global research on CEO reputation that we just released, we asked several questions on corporate reputation in general. How could I resist? Interestingly, nearly nine in 10 executives (86%) consider the reputations of their companies to be strong. However, fewer than four...
[Portions of this appeared on the HBR blog]CEO reputation is in need of yet another upgrade: let's call it CEO Version 7.0. We started out at the turn of the last century with the Industrialist CEO, moved on to the Organization Man, then to the...