I wrote this blog earlier this year and am posting it again because it was in fact the impetis for my friend George to begin creating a high performance board.
The CEO of a Fortune 500 company was less than a year into the job. He had turned the company around 180 degrees, brought in [...]
A few years ago, I was hired by the HRD of a Global 1000 to help with the talent development process for both their top executives and high potentials. I told them that the best approach was to put the individual in the middle of the process, not a list of academic leadership competencies.
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The CEO of a Fortune 500 company was less than a year into the job. He had turned the company around 180 degrees, brought in a team of ‘A’ players, developed a game-changing strategy, cleaned up operations, and doubled the stock price. He and his team had spent the last week preparing for a board [...]
Today, most CEOs come into the job with a vision and a winning game plan. They hold an executive offsite with the top team and come up with a game changing strategy. Everyone gets excited and signs off on the strategy, vowing to play 100 percent at making sure it gets executed. Then surprisingly, after [...]
Top search firms, Fortune 500s, and Sand Hill Road VC firms are increasingly choosing candidates who have spent a year in a business Start Up Incubator rather than those who are graduates of Harvard, Stanford, or Tuck.
The reason, said a friend who works at Heidrick and Struggles, is that, while business schools give you [...]
What does the new CEO of Philips, Frans van Houten, have in common with Dutch explorers of the past, such as Henry Hudson who sought to find an easterly passage to Asia, or Willem Janszoon who recorded European landfall on the Australian continent?
These hearty Dutch explorers each pursued an Impossible Dream in service of [...]
