CEO Life
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Recharge Your Body and Soul
You know the feeling. Your body starts to sag like a wet paper bag and ache in all the usual [...]
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Where Do You Draw the Line Between a CEO’s Corporate and Personal Life?
When CEOs need to blow off steam, many turn to extreme hobbies like racing yachts, flying planes or even space travel. But since these activities are dangerous (and can be fatal) should corporate boards be allowed to regulate a CEO’s extracurricular activities? Where do you draw the line between a CEO’s corporate life and his personal life?
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CEOs Who Ride the Wind
Greek mythology’s Icarus, using wax wings, crashed because he flew too close to the sun. But a fair number of [...]
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How Accurate is the Idea of the Narcissist CEO?
A recent study from a management professor at Penn State explores the “Narcissistic CEO,” claiming that qualities like investing heavily in advertising and R&D or conducting lots of acquisitions (and paying high premiums for those acquisitions) indicates that a CEO is narcissistic and may run a company into the ground. Sure, too much ego isn’t a good thing, but is this study taking things too far?
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54% of CEOs Say Top Spot is More Complex than Expected, Feel Isolated from Staff
A new survey from RHR International has insights into the current pysche of the public company CEO; 50% of CEOs feel isolated and 50% feel increased pressure to perform well financially in a short period of time. Are the external pressures on CEOs leading them to make the best long-term decisions?
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5 Steps to Build a Bridge to the Life You WantThe secret to life’s success involves a plan – one that is reviewed and tweaked at regular intervals. |
January 9 2012 | |
Preparing for Board Director Retirement: A Customized Approach to Succession PlanningHistorically, Board Director Succession Planning has been relegated to a process focused on simply “replacing” a particular individual who is retiring with someone who is most like that particular individual. Although instituted quite frequently, this historical approach ignores three truths that are worth examining. |
Boards of Directors , Governance/Compliance | December 8 2011 |
Part II: Private Company Compensation StudyChief Executive Group recently conducted a groundbreaking study of the compensation practices of private companies with revenues of $5 million to $5 billion. In our last issue, we provided some of the highlights about CEO compensation practices. This charticle focuses on some of the key findings related to other senior executives. |
CEO Compensation , Talent Management | December 6 2011 |
Study Says CEOs Disappoint as Board Members, But Numbers Tell a Different StoryA recent survey suggests that sitting CEOs may actually be less effective directors than non-CEOs, citing the responses of 79 percent of directors who said sitting CEOs were no more effective in the role than non-CEOs. |
Boards of Directors , Governance/Compliance | December 5 2011 |
No Bull: Empty offices signal a second recessionColumnist Joe Queenan discusses how the activities in his suburban New York office building tell us everything we need to know about the economy. |
November 29 2011 |
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