
Should You Give Your CEO Stock Options?
“The argument for paying a CEO with stock options is that it gives the executive an incentive to increase value for shareholders,” according to Capital ideas. “If the CEO drives…
“The argument for paying a CEO with stock options is that it gives the executive an incentive to increase value for shareholders,” according to Capital ideas. “If the CEO drives…
“Successful innovators care about solving interesting and important problems — innovation is merely a byproduct. If this distinction seems like hair-splitting, it isn’t. The two focuses create vastly different realities,”…
“It’s easy to focus on a team’s hotshot, or those with the best numbers who jointly raise their group’s overall performance. But some teams do well because there’s a special…
On our bookshelf: A recently updated The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor. In this follow-up to The Innovator’s Dilemma, the authors take…
In a seminal 2005 article, “The Balanced Scorecard”, Robert Kaplan and David Norton argued that executives should track both financial and operational metrics because traditional measures of financial performance didn’t…
“Consensus is a powerful tool. When CEOs set out to conquer new markets or undertake billion-dollar acquisitions, we’d hope they’d at least sought out some consensus from their trusted advisors.…
“Hiring managers often view newcomers to their organizations as not only long-term assets but also short-term burdens: people who need to be inducted, trained, and given lighter loads as they…
KPMG interviewed 400 U.S. CEOs for a study called “Setting the Course for Growth: CEO Perspectives” which looked at the most critical business issues of the next three years and…
A new McKinsey Global Survey asked executives about seven core implementation capabilities and found striking results: “Good implementers—defined as companies where respondents reported top-quartile scores for their implementation capabilities—are 4.7…
Stanford Business Magazine: “In hundreds of studies over six decades, social scientists have repeatedly found that people network with people like themselves. If your classmates, neighbors, or work colleagues are…