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How CEOs Can Get It Right

Former P&G CEO A.G. Lafley says too many CEOs stumble over business strategy. It comes down to two principles: choice and winning; and all organizations, regardless of size, can score big when they get it right.

 JP Donlon CEO Briefing Newsletter May 26 2013

CEO Confidence Index Falls 3.5% in May 2013

The CEO Confidence Index fell 3.5% in May 2013 to 5.86 out of a possible 10.

ChiefExecutive.net CEO Confidence Index May 25 2013

Medifast’s Michael MacDonald: All in the Family

How a 33-year Xerox veteran made good at his ailing brother’s diet food company.

 Jennifer Pellet CEO Briefing Newsletter May 24 2013

Small-Business Owner Roller Coaster Continues

After March’s disappointing drop in small-business confidence, April’s Small Business Optimism index of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), rose 2.6 points to 92.1, just above the recovery average of 90.7. Yet pessimism abounds within the sector, as still far more of those surveyed expect business conditions to be worse in six months than those who think they will be better. Most cite taxes. regulations and weak sales as their chief challenges going forward.

ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter , Small Business May 22 2013

Companies Turn to New CEOs

In an exhaustive 2012 study of Chief Executives, “Time for New CEOs,” Booz & Co. management consultants, reports the highest number of planned CEO successions at the world’s largest 2,500 public companies in the history of the study and finds that companies often seek familiarity in new CEOs. It also asserts that the “global CEO” is more myth than reality.

ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter May 22 2013

IT Is too Important to Leave to the Technologists

It’s no secret that information technology is core to modern business. To make the most of IT investments and innovations, chief executives must understand how technologies enable their company’s competitive advantage. Yet how many of today’s CIOs are considered the leading candidates to succeed their CEOs? Precious few—a weakness that CEOs and their boards should consider changing.

Alan Kisling CEO Briefing Newsletter May 22 2013

How to Grow your Company

These five rules will help bulletproof your growth strategy.

 Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell CEO Briefing Newsletter , Leadership & Strategy May 21 2013

The New Calculus of Prosperity

In the course of U.S. economic cycles, geography played a key role in the rise and fall of regional economies. This is no longer true.

JP Donlon CEO Briefing Newsletter May 19 2013

Pardon My French

An American takes on France—and the world.

 Joe Queenan CEO Briefing Newsletter May 17 2013

More Firms Say Competitors Seek to Hire Away Their Talent

There has been a sharp increase in companies reporting that competitors are trying to recruit their top people, according to a global survey released by Right Management, the talent and career management unit within ManpowerGroup. Nearly two out of three employers now complain that other companies seek to hire away their organization’s leaders compared with just 42% last year.

 ChiefExecutive.net CEO Briefing Newsletter May 15 2013

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