Executive hiring cooled by 14% in 2022 as compared to 2021, said Thrive, the software services firm that supports executive recruiters and talent professionals, in their recently released Executive Compensation & Hiring Benchmarks 2022. While a 14% percentage drop may not seem significant, Q4 executive hiring was down 43% compared to the first quarter of […]
Last week, McKinsey & Company representatives shared a briefing discussing their recently published special report, What matters most? Six priorities for CEOs in turbulent times. Liz Segel, Senior Partner, Chief Client Officer and Managing Partner, Global Industry Practices, New York and Homayoun Hatami, Senior Partner and Managing Partner, Global Client Capabilities, Paris, shared their insights. […]
What Can Be Done? If you are a CEO and you have lost confidence in the performance of your executive leadership team (top team), you are not alone. According to a recent study, CEOs, top team members, and their direct reports have all lost confidence in the top team over the last eighteen months. Results […]
Informative Resources for Executives to Create Massive Value For the first time in person since 2020, the 41st annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is taking place January 9-12, in San Francisco. Over 8,000 attendees representing 550 healthcare companies have gathered for the premier conference, widely considered to be the largest and most informative healthcare investment […]
The Best New Studies, Books, Articles, Apps and Resources for CEOs who Seek to Create Value in an Uncertain World In today’s turbulent business world, CEOs need all the help they can get to navigate the treacherous waters. Despite the supply chain, inflation and great resignation challenges, the job of every CEO remains to create […]
During the past two weeks, the business news has been dominated by tech companies that are laying off staff. Meta laid off 11,000 employees or 13% of their workforce. Twitter terminated the employment of 3,700, nearly 50% of its staff. A long list of other companies followed. Intel, Snap, Robinhood, Stripe, Salesforce, Lyft, Microsoft, Shopify, […]
After two long years, Advamed’s annual MedTech Conference took place in Boston last week. Over two thousand executives, entrepreneurs and medical device professionals gathered to share ideas, learn, network and connect for three days. The importance of a company’s purpose – the overarching guiding principle for why the firm exists – was raised many times […]
The loathed performance appraisal is raising its ugly head again across corporations. Many companies that halted reviews during the pandemic now have employee performance in their crosshairs. The Dreaded Performance Review Makes a Comeback appeared as the lead article in the Wall Street Journal’s C-Suite Strategies section on September 19, 2022. Meta Platforms (Facebook), Google, McKinsey, CarParts.com, […]
Every CEO has six key responsibilities they must embrace. Exceptional CEOs think and act differently as to how they carry out their responsibilities. They take different actions and deploy practices that create great value. These mindsets and practices can be learned, applied, and mastered. The first responsibility is set the direction. The accompanying mindset of […]
As CEO, your job is to create great value. More than any other person, your impact as CEO is the single biggest predictor of your company’s success. Perform in the upper 20% of CEOs and you’ll generate a nearly 3X greater return to shareholders than the average performer. Yet sustaining top performance and value creation […]
