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CEOs Need to Reassess, Reset to Stay Successful Midterm
You've made it through your first year as CEO—assessing the business, formulating a vision and strategy, and building trust and legitimacy with some early wins. Now what? A new article from Harvard ...
Many ‘High-Potential’ Employees Actually Lack Leadership Skills
Employees designated high-potential (HIPO) are supposed to be an organization's most capable, most motivated and most likely to achieve positions of responsibility and power. In fact, companies often ...
3 Tips for Navigating the ‘Effective Communication’ Landscape
Effective communication is a key part of being a successful leader. But what do you do when an employee comes to you with a sensitive issue that's hindering their ability to focus on work? In a ...
What Makes a Best-in-Class CEO?
Intensity, a focus on core issues and the ability to be open-minded enough to know what they don't know—these are some of the key attributes that separate best-in-class CEOs from the rest of the ...
Meditation Can Help You Lead More Effectively: Opinion
Today's "always on" work culture is taking a heavy toll on leaders, but McKinsey & Co.'s Manish Chopra believes he has a solution: meditation. Leaders need to "observe more, react less," Chopra ...