In my last post, I wrote about a recent McKinsey Quarterly report on new CEOs which had valuable information. The one thing I left out and saved for a follow up post was this finding which showed up in the last few sentences. The authors reported...
Read this earlier in the week in Fortune Geoff Colvin's Power Sheet newsletter about tips for CEO Succession. One of the pieces of advice was to ground oneself and keep humble. Colvin told this anecdote that I think has a nice turn of words. "I once asked...
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...
Thought this was an interesting way to announce a new management team lineup. The new CEO of Cisco Chuck Robbins wrote on the company blog about his choices for his "next generation" executive team. He named 10 people and explains why each is the ideal choice. Interestingly,...
We all know about boards choosing "insider" or "outsider" CEOs as successors. For years, there's been debates about which is better and usually insider CEOs take the lead. I used to track CEO succession when I started my first blog ever, www.ceogo.com. We were one...
Worth taking a look at NYC mayor-elect Bill De Blasio's transition web site. It is very transparent and user-friendly. You can apply for jobs, review who the transition team is, send an idea. volunteer, or read blog postings. It is a great idea that matches with...
I am always fond of CEOs who ask questions of interviewers. Here is an example I just read about the CEO of IKEA Mikael Ohlsson. There was a CEO who I admired who used to always ask people what their impressions were of the company...
Found myself up at 4am reading about Governor Cuomo. Jet lag sure is a hanger on. When I was in Asia, people told me that for every two hours in time difference, it would take one day to recover. So because I was in Australia...