CEO

Does Your Consultant Amount To “Value” or “Cost”? 10 Questions every CEO should ask when hiring an external consultant

   As a CEO, hiring an external consultant is a serious and necessary resourcing step, focused on desired company value and results. For you it is critical to assure success, when introducing an outside consultant to the ...READ»

Infographic of the Day: How Much Does Your Company's CEO Make? Per Hour?

GOOD magazine's contest, with a directive to design the best infographic illustrating CEO salaries, results in a design that highlights the personal and financial sides of the current economy.READ»

Have You Defined your Social Architecture?

The world of business discovered social media in 2009. Business professionals are setting up professional Facebook pages, groups and fan pages for themselves and their companies in a way they never did with LinkedIn, MySpace or Plaxo. ...READ»

Does Your Organization Eat its Young?

There is an expression used in corporate governance called “eating their young.” It defines the practice of hiring high-functioning candidates from the best schools into entry-level positions, working them hard for several years ...READ»

The Hidden (High) Cost of Corporate Announcements

Corporate announcements provide the market with the information needed to properly assess the corporation’s stock price. Some of these announcements include information that may indicate a change in the organization itself, like a ...READ»

Who is the Business Architect in your Organization?

Every organization has at least one Business Architect, though they are not often referred to as such.The CEO often acts in the role of Business Architect when the issues facing the organization do not become too complex.However, when ...READ»

Nonsense At Work

Free speech at work:I’ve been accused of coming across angry lately.  I’m so pleased you’ve noticed.Let me tell you why I’m a little annoyed.  This country was built on something called free speech.  Not only ...READ»

The Hard Work of Collaborative Solutions

In business school, everyone wanted to be the CEO--you know, the infallible one in the suit, with years of experience and wisdom, the one with all the answers. What a bogus model. Turns out, the best leaders are the ones with the ...READ»

Top Dogs Are Lonely: Confessions of A CEO Coach

The job of a CEO is a lonely one. A CEO coach can be a trusted role model, advisor, guide and mentor who helps the CEO shape visions, tap new energies and generate desired results. But more than anything, the CEO coach can provide an oasis of calm, a relationship of trust and honesty to help the CEO fulfill an extremely demanding role.READ»

Can a Flash Game Fix Outrage over CEO Pay?

Everyone's furious at the brass. In France, workers detained four Caterpillar executives. At Obama's town hall meetings, citizens rail about CEO pay. This week, unionized airline workers took a creative 21st century approach. They ...READ»

Nonsense At Work

The overpaid CEO PR backlash: It begins.  The overpaid CEO public relations backlash.  Trying to convince us that they are worthy, not greedy. Oh, to be so insecure that your main measure of public success is how much money ...READ»

CEOs Who Risk Big for Big Paydays

    Research shows that incentivizing CEOs with large pay and stock-option packages doesn't always have the intended effect of aligning their interests with shareholders. These six CEOs got fired because their risky moves ...READ»

• Why Incentives Are Effective, Irresistable, and Almost Certain to Backfire
• Incentive Clauses Gone Bad

INTERVIEW: Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh

I recently saw a Tweet that caught my attention.  It was from Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos and it reminded me of my first day as a HR manager. I was brand new to the hotel.  Arrived at work all anxious and ready to start.  Someone ...READ»

TechWatch: CitySearch Knows Where You Live

The restaurant-review site is already a go-to guide for anyone looking to try a new place to eat or find a certain business. Now the company is trying a new place itself: your neighborhood. That's right -- yours.READ»

"Ford and The American Dream"

In this day and time, people frequently talk about doing the "right thing," but rarely are they interested in risking their comfort zone and what others might think to do what they feel needs to be done.  Clifton ...READ»

Nonsense At Work

Don’t waste my time: Every week tells of another CEO failure and another corporate disaster.  Every day more people say ‘I lost my job’; ‘I lost my money’.  To date the American-dream response has been ‘find another ...READ»

Before You Sell Your Tech Company. Make Sure You Know Your Brand Valuation.

As you invest your entrepreneurial sweat, blood, and tears to build your business, you must pay attention to the business fundamentals that make any business successful: develop comprehensive capabilities, deliver on your promises, ...READ»

Accountability Dodge Ball: Why CEOs Must Reinvent Marketing ROI

I read that schools have largely eliminated the age old childhood game of dodge ball. You remember it. A group of us lined against a wall. Someone else kicked the ball at us, hard. Everyone moved to keep from being hit because if the ...READ»

What Your CEO Wants

After three years of hosting an Annual "For CEOs By CEOs" event the overwhelming request from these CEOs was "More often and More Cities, please!"  Why?  Because no one is asking the CEO what he/she ...READ»

Have women broken the glass ceiling?

A recent survey entitled Workplace Insights, showed that while almost all American workers believe that women have made important strides in business over the past ten years, 86 percent surveyed still felt the glass ceiling was very ...READ»

Nonsense at Work

The Empty Desk I once worked for a shipping line which merged with a group that included hotels and gambling resorts. As you can imagine when conservative shipping meets liberal gambling, the two CEOs had very different ...READ»

Helping working moms work it out

It seems that workplaces and women have been talking about how to manage a family and a career for years now, and yet there still seems to be no one clear cut answer. That perhaps is because there likely is no magical answer like ...READ»

Women downplaying femininity in the workplace

Today's blogpost is inspired by Today's Big Idea. "Women shouldn't downplay femininity in the office; they should use it as an asset." This quote was taken from “What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should): Timeless ...READ»

Breaking the mold

In starting this blog, I wanted to make sure that I offered coverage of women in business that was not being offered elsewhere. One suggestion about this coverage came from Gail Evans, former executive vice president of CNN and ...READ»