225 Posts found for Source: Chief Executive

Showing top execs the door can be an expensive proposition-and not just because of hefty severance packages.

Content: Article | Author: Pamela Mendels | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Corporate Governance

For companies seeking the safe haven of private life, both promises and peril await.

Editor’s Note: see related article, “Opting Out”
Content: Article | Author: Erik Sherman | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Finance

The tricky thing about knowledge management is ensuring that all those programs and processes don’t choke the imaginative sparks they try to grasp.

Content: Article | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Knowledge Management

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Pleasing stakeholders is like any other relationship: If you’re not communicating with them and adjusting to their needs, you won’t know they’re unhappy until it’s over.

Content: Article | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Management

The way CEOs handle brushes with litigation will probably determine how successfully they manage their companies.

Content: Article | Author: Jeffrey Rothfeder | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Legal, Management

The way to truly succeed is by supporting-not stepping on-those around you.

Content: Article | Authors: James M. Citrin, Richard A. Smith | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Career, Leadership

These plaintiff attorneys are smart, competitive and use tactics every top exec should understand.

Content: Article | Author: Jeffrey Rothfeder | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Legal

Led by an unlikely activist, Robert A.G. Monks, the years-long push for shareholders’ rights is suddenly gaining steam. Is CEO clout in the boardroom seriously at risk?

Content: Article | Author: Gregory J. Millman | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Corporate Governance

Robert Beyster has led Science Applications International Corp. through many economic vacillations since launching the company 33 years ago. Yet SAIC, the United States’ largest employee-owned research and engineering firm, has sustained revenue and earnings growth throughout its remarkable history. A major reason, says its founder and chief executive, is that when times get tough, employee-owned companies get tougher.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Management

…knowledge has three M’s: message, medium, and motivation. Message-you have to define the business-critical information in your organization. Medium-you need some sort of system to provide the right type of information to the right people at the right time. But most important, I think, is the motivation side. You have to motivate people both to populate a system and to use it. And that gets … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Richard A. Kleinert | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Knowledge

More and more companies say the COO is no longer necessary, but a few still find it essential.

Content: Article | Author: Pamela Mendels | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Trends / Analysis

Whatever their strategy, CEOs are convinced that grooming top leaders is absolutely key to their companies’ ability to compete. Chief Executive magazine ranks the top 20 companies for leaders.

Content: Article | Author: Leah Nathans Spiro | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Best Practices, Leadership

CEOs share their secrets, and speculations, on managing for the 25 years to come.

CEOs include:
CHRISTINE JACOBS | Theragenics
WILLIE DAVIS | All Pro Broadcasting
DOMENICO DE SOLE | Gucci Group
BILL HICKEY | Sealed Air
A.G. LAFLEY | Procter & Gamble
DICK KOVACEVICH | Wells Fargo
MAURY MYERS | Waste Management
PHILIP SATRE | Harrah’s
SIDNEY TAUREL | Eli Lilly & Co.
MICHAEL VOLKEMA | … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jennifer Gilbert, Paul Rogers | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: People, Trends / Analysis

By treating innovation as a legitimate business process, CEOs are encouraging the development of new ideas from a variety of sources – and managing the risk that goes with it.

Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Pellet | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Innovation

Larry Bossidy is the chairman of Morristown, N.J.-based Honeywell and former CEO of AlliedSignal. He is the co-author, with Ram Charan, of Execution: The Art of Getting Things Done.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Management

When white male employees at Abbott Laboratories begin complaining that all the good jobs go to women, Miles White knows his diversity drive is a success.

Content: Article | Authors: C.J. Prince, Miles White | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Best Practices, Human Resources

Corporate governance experts aren’t saying who’s got the best board anymore. Instead, they’re demanding a slew of new best practices to bring directors’ behavior into the bright light of day.

Content: Article | Author: C.J. Prince | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Corporate Governance

CEO, IBM

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Management | Industry: Information Technology

Most bungled successions can be traced to five failings.
First, many incumbents are reluctant to give up power, either hanging on too long or trying to foist like-minded successors onto their boards.
Second, when appointing new leaders, boards often choose a safe replacement, rather than someone who will question the directors’ roles.
Third, swayed by force of personality, boards frequently fail to define or adhere … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Succession Planning