Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: 5 Tips For CEOs In Transition
Today’s baby boomer CEOs are leaving office with confidence, ideas and enthusiasm, ready to assume new life missions unencumbered by the obligations of past roles.
Today’s baby boomer CEOs are leaving office with confidence, ideas and enthusiasm, ready to assume new life missions unencumbered by the obligations of past roles.
Following a superstar founder is never easy, but Amazon’s new CEO also has a full plate of major strategic problems to solve when he takes over later this year.
The timing makes perfect sense in terms of strategic and industry life stage, as well as the life stage of the company’s culture and the characters involved. We all should have seen this coming.
Five warning signs that a CEO is veering into the kind of monarchical behavior that can jeopardize a smooth transition.
The leader of Dick’s Sporting Goods announced he would be stepping down from his role as CEO. In a recent interview, we asked him about his controversial move to end firearms sales. “When you look back at the culture of the company, this is the only decision we could have made.”
Leaders need to demonstrate inquisitiveness, agility, humility and an insatiable appetite for learning like no generation before them—and they must be grounded in their own humanity.
How to take advantage of the interim’s expertise to ensure that, when the time is right, the permanent hire hits the ground running.
Former Steelcase chief never really displayed the vision thing, so Bill Ford turns to a proven internal riser in Farley
Those with this affliction tend to be charismatic and confident, but, left unchecked, they often steer their companies into the abyss. Watch for these symptoms.
Defense giant Lockheed Martin announced this morning that Marillyn A. Hewson, its longtime CEO, would turn over the top job to board member and American
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