This is an interesting article and interview with Tedlow, the author of “Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face-and What to Do About It.” The author talks about the impact of denial which controls CEO’s minds and actions, though they don’t admit it, on their organizations and companies. He defines denial as “the...

This is an interesting research by Herminia Ibarra and Morten Hansen published in HBR on 20th Jan 2010. The insights Ibarra and Hansen provided are pretty much related to the age factor and entry to the executiveship. The research had concluded that CEO’s with MBAs are stronger, if they become CEO’s before year 2000 and were younger than 50 yrs old....

How could possibly Goodnight be mistaken? or  just lucky? running a 13,000 employee company with $2.2 billions in revenue has no room whatsoever for luck. I can not imagine unless that this man is just a superhero, or in more simplistic form, he is a leader. He is not alone and he is not the one. We had hundreds of similar unique and universal successes around the...

During the journey of reading one of the best ever published business books; bestseller of its type; Good To Great by Jim Collins [and subsequently How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins also], I had received Harvard Business Review report on the “The 100 Best-Performing CEO’s in the World“. Well, not so much amazing! isn’t it! Actually it does...

“… Although DuPont experience looks successful and insightful, yet, it triggers an important matter of governing the CEO succession process. Nurturing and setting up a governed and robust process for executives succession seems entirely forgotten subject in today’s corporate world”-Mouaz.  This is not an easy time to nurture a new...