225 Posts found for Source: Chief Executive

If you’re looking to succeed in China, you’ll need to align your strategy with the agenda of China’s leaders. Businesses need to take a “politico-strategic” approach when entering the country because of the strong relationship between commerce and government.

Content: Article | Author: Robert Lawrence Kuhn | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: International – China

Of course, having the right skills and experiences are important to performing the job, just not relevant when hiring. Skills and experiences are simply the tools one brings to the job. It is one’s ability to use these tools effectively that counts. Just because you have a hammer and saw in your garage, doesn’t make you a fine finish carpenter.

Content: Article | Author: Brad Remillard | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Human Resources

These five rules will help bulletproof your growth strategy.

Content: Article | Authors: Laurence Capron, Will Mitchell | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Effective employee recognition boosts performance—but what makes a program effective?

Content: Article | Author: C.J. Prince | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

How the best companies assess employee performance—and what you can learn from them.

Content: Article | Author: Russ Banham | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Increasingly, companies recognizing the importance of diversity at the top are investing in recruiting and developing talented women. So why aren’t we seeing more women in top roles?

Content: Article | Author: John Kador | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Women in Business

Money isn’t the great motivator people often suppose. In fact, excessive monetary rewards can lead to bad behaviors.

Content: Article | Author: Claudio Feser | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Even very small companies can benefit from business analytical tools that may literally transform their businesses.

Content: Article | Author: William J. Holstein | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business

To ensure that business functions are performing in alignment with strategy, organizations rely upon key performance indicators (KPIs) to provide timely assessments of potential problems and opportunities. Without such clarity, CEO decision-making is compromised. KPIs must be as dynamic as business itself, altering and evolving to adjust to new opportunities and competitive threats.

Content: Article | Author: Russ Banham | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Management

What can “economic value added,” increasingly considered the public company’s preferred performance metric, do for your company?

Content: Article | Author: Russ Banham | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Finance, Management

Just as companies parse KPIs into different buckets, the KPIs themselves can be fragmented into insightful silos of information, says Karen O’Leonard. “Many businesses use ‘employee turnover rates’ as a key metric, but we suggest you break down this KPI into more meaningful components like the turnover rates for critical roles—the high performers [who], were you to lose them, would cause significant business and financial … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Russ Banham | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Management, Measurement

There are the T-shirts (operations), the turtlenecks (marketing), and the suits (executive management). The language they use, their perspectives and how they prioritize is fundamentally different. So you’ve got to bridge that disconnect to get the alignment and executional consistency critical to agility.

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Execution, Management, Organizational Behavior

You can never outwork a problem. You have to outthink it.

Content: Quotation | Author: A.G. Lafley | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Problems / Solutions, Work

Everything seems urgent and very little actually is. When I come back from a long trip and haven’t been current on my voicemail or email, I’m always struck by the fact that what seem like crises on Day One resolve themselves without any interaction from me.

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Delegation, Problems / Solutions, Time Management

Your calendar epitomizes your values and will dictate your behavior.

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Time Management

Managed expectations plus delivery equals credibility.

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

We are all prisoners of the familiar. And that means we don’t get up in the morning and say, ‘I think I’ll go out and make myself as uncomfortable as I can by dealing with someone who is very different from me.’

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Everybody should be extraordinary to succeed, but nobody should have to be extraordinary to have the opportunity to succeed.

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Opportunity, Success / Failure

Experts say leadership failure has many signs but they have narrowed the cause to a few that stand out. Few site competence, or knowledge, or lack of experience. When Claudio Fernando-Araoz, head of research for the executive recruitment firm Egon Zehnder International, looked at CEOs who had succeeded and those who had failed, he found the same pattern in America, Germany and Japan: those who … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Leadership, Management

[You have to] know who the people are who are most critical to the success of the organization. I would guess that most companies don’t know that. Most organizations… do not know the people up and down the organization who are absolutely critical.

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior