From the category archives:
Last night I saw Moneyball, the blockbuster movie based on Michael Lewis’s best seller, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. The movie has been successful for some obvious reasons, one being that Brad Pitt is not too hard to look at for two hours. But I liked it for an imperceptible one. It [...]
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The resignation of Steve Jobs from Apple marks a sad milestone for both technology and leadership excellence. In recent years, no other enterprise leader has been so successful. Many consider him both a genius and a technology guru who had the temerity to ignore market research and push bold new products ahead of the market and [...]
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Let’s face it. No one throws a wedding like the royals. If we dedicated half the attention to marketing and branding our entire businesses as they do to a one-day party, we’d all be on easy street. Another thing they do well is succession planning. We all know that the lineup for the throne will [...]
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Kenneth Feinberg’s name has dominated the news this week because he specializes in determining the value of things. He’s the “special master” pay czar who oversaw the Sept. 11th fund and determined the executive’s compensation following the auto industry bailout. Obama recently chose Feinbert to administer the $20 billion fund to help those in the Gulf [...]
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Succession planning is a deliberate, systematic effort to guarantee leadership continuity, a process for ensuring a suitable supply of candidates for current and future key jobs so that the careers of individuals can be managed to optimize both the organization’s needs and the individual’s aspirations. Not engaging in it is gross negligence. Done well, it [...]
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