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Winning isn't just about outscoring your opponent or exceeding the next quarter's goals; it's about doing what's in the long-term best interests of all your fellow stakeholders. With some notable exceptions, business leaders are focused only on short-term gains. We need to demand better.
The U.S. middle class is caught in a vice with falling wages on one side and rising costs on the other. Robert S. Kaplan, author of the business leadership book What to Ask the Person in the Mirror suggests five ways that politicians should be responding -- not specific policies, but mindsets that could lead to better ones.
As HP and Apple Show, CEO Succession Planning Is Key
4:15PM 9/09/2010
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It might be a scandal. Or an illness. Or the CEO could simply quit. Regardless of the cause, major companies can't afford to wait until a sudden crisis dictates the search for a new CEO. Korn/Ferry's Ana Dutra explains.
Being the Brand: The Pros and Cons of CEOs as Corporate Icons
6:50AM 7/22/2010
Colonel Sanders pulled it off, and so has Steve Jobs. Yet few companies allow one individual to represent their brand. Why not? The risks are large, and, well, few CEOs are actually good at it.
Coca-Cola scholarships pay up to $20,000 for college
9:00AM 6/30/2010
Unlike other teenage guys who were more interested in video games than volunteering, Aaron Chadbourne was a kid who was active in his small town of Gorham, Maine. He got involved every way he could -- president of the National Honor Society, collecting Christmas gifts for his less-fortunate peers,...
As U.S. legislators debate reform to save money on health care, Brazil has bigger things in mind. Namely, saving the planet. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wants to propose reducing the deforestation rate in Brazil's Amazon rain forests by 80 percent by 2020, he told Agence France-Presse on...
One Year Later: Lessons for business leaders
9:20AM 9/16/2009
Anyone who's lived through the last several decades or studied recent economic history knows that capitalism is inherently unstable. More specifically, the system goes through periods of economic expansion and contraction, which generally last eight to 10 years from peak to trough. Business leaders...
Employees want to work for someone who they perceive as fair, open, and honest. Those are the qualities most often mentioned in surveys of employees about their managers and supervisors. Workers want to fell good about the person they report to and the company they work for.
This relationship...
Recently, fellow WalletPop writer Zac Bissonnette recently wrote about IBM's David Laux, who told the BBC that gamers make better employees. Laux cited the case of his daughter who, at age 11, was already dealing with complex business decisions and the implications of each choice by managing her...
Donald Trump examines the full figured woman
6:00PM 3/07/2008
I'm writing about women's incomes -- what were you thinking?In a recent scan of Donald Trump's blog, Trump University, I read a blog post the Donald wrote regarding women who earn better incomes than their male partners and what that disparity can do to the men in their lives. Referring to a report...
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