Leadership : Page 15

Confident CEO is good but overconfident not so much

May 11, 2020 Boards play an important role in creating succession plans and selecting future CEOs.

Now it's clear: Offices exist where CEOs and middle managers are dictators

May 4, 2020 Yes, we know, the title sounds harsh but it is true.

If you share a first name with your boss you have a greater chance to be successful

April 27, 2020 According to a study led by Assistant Professor of Accounting Omri Even-Tov from the University of California, Berkeley, it was found that there is a positive correlation between an analyst’s ability to forecast the company’s earnings if that individual shared the same name as the CEO of their firm.

To weather a crisis, build a network of teams

April 20, 2020 Imagine you are a tenured CEO of a utility company. You have led your organization through hurricanes and other extreme weather events.

If your company never worked from home, it's time to start. Now

April 6, 2020 Now that everybody is working from home, it can be challenging for companies to recruit and onboard new employees.

Family- and non-family-based executives are more similar than it looks

March 30, 2020 Several studies of family firm failures have pointed to non-family members in leading positions as a reason.

If you want a promotion, learn how to speak

March 23, 2020 Senior executives of large firms weight ambiguous factors like culture fit as equally important as critical job skills when making promotion decisions.

If you want long term strategy, hire local CEO

March 16, 2020 What confidence can shareholders have in top executives\' ability to manage for the long run as leaders might do, for example, in sustaining a firm’s investments in research and development even as they strive to meet current earnings forecasts?

More than half of companies don't even think about woman as CEO

March 9, 2020 More than half of organizations didn’t assess a single female candidate when looking for their next CEO, according to a new DDI study.

Yelling in the workplace: Water is very effective against fire

March 2, 2020 We have all been in a situation when somebody is yelling in the office and we must find a way to calm the situation down. Going against the instistintcs is a good, although it requires some practice.

With wrong type of feedback you can turn cooperative employees into competitive

February 24, 2020 Competitive behavior among employees may be triggered by the type of feedback they have received.

The best way to encourage innovation? Pay your workers more

February 17, 2020 Innovation is a major force behind economic growth, but many disagree on what is the best way to encourage workers to produce the ideas that create newer and better products and services.