What CEOs need to know about employees who are on the front lines every day? The information they will never have from their close entourage. You do not know me. I am one of your employees. A face you encounter may be once a year. I am one of those people that everyone considers honorable and…
Your team wants to know why should they follow you in your command? Don’t tell them, show them by focusing on the essential, not necessarily the most important. “Why should I follow you? » When you introduce your vision for making your business more innovative, you may think that your employees will ask you about the costs,…
Clever boards and nominating committees are going to have to assemble a cadre of senior executives who can stand up to increasingly watchful shareholders and other activists. A series of legal changes that will make it easier for shareholders to nominate top executives are gaining momentum in the United States. This includes the modification of Delaware’s…
The former CEO of GM destroyed the structure of good governance that was that of the company when he took the reins. He took decisions as bad as each other helped in this by a blessed board of directors yes yes. General Motors’ legendary industrial management system may for once be revered by management scholars…
Fewer companies will hire recent MBA graduates this year, and salaries in fields such as technology, finance and manufacturing will stagnate or even decline, a new study finds. objectively, the summer of 2008 was an unfavorable period for students who had just graduated from an MBA to venture into the job market. The US Federal Reserve…
No manager has yet had to manage his company in an economic climate as tense as the one we are facing. Here is a plan summarizing the strategies that could ensure their effectiveness for leaders confirming what everyone had suspected for a long time, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) recently announced that the American…
It might seem like ancient history now, but not long ago the mortgage industry was turning ordinary people into millionaires. One was Sharmen Lane, a high school dropout who, like many other young women during the boom, found her way into an obscure banking job with the clumsy title of “mortgage wholesaler”. Her experience –…
This presidential column is not about ideology. The election is over. And while we believe that John McCain is a great American whose economic platform has made business better, particularly in terms of free trade, tax policy, and job creation, we look forward with hope to the presidency of Barak Obama. If there is one USA for all…
Experts recommend: focusing on helping the company, not attacking rivals, and being aware of the pressures on your manager. The recession we are heading towards promises to be brutal and long-lasting. Once layoff notices start piling up – which they certainly will – the workplace will become more and more Darwinian. At times like these,…
Chris Gardner, the man whose story inspired the movie ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’, explains how he used his passion to change his life. It’s not every day that you meet the man whose real-life story inspired a Hollywood movie starring one of America’s top actors. But the other day I had the opportunity to hang out…
