“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…
Kellogg Insight: “Say you’re a company looking to grow. You do not just want to be big. You want to dominate your industry. You are not just looking to compete.…
“As organizations everywhere increasingly embrace analytics, it is tempting to think that additional data will provide the crucial insight, reveal the overlooked explanation, or crisply discern key solutions within a…
A new CareerBuilder survey finds that only 34% of American workers said they aspire to leadership positions in their companies and just 7% strive for C-level management roles. The main…
Benedict Evans at Andreeson Horowitz takes a fascinating look at why Amazon, after almost 20 years after it was launched, has yet to report a meaningful profit. “Should it stop…
“It’s a cliché to say that the world is more uncertain than ever before, but few realize just how much uncertainty has increased over the past 50 years,” according to…
Alan Murray: “Perhaps there was a time when the calling of the manager and that of the leader could be separated. A foreman in an industrial-era factory probably didn’t have…
