CFO & CEO: How to Avoid Organizational Mood Swings
CEOs and CFOs must deliver a carefully crafted duet when they communicate to the team, balancing optimistic messages and cautionary ones.
Posts Tagged ‘finding and retaining talent’
Why Dictatorial CEOs Increasingly Put Their Companies at Risk (and What to Do About It)
All types of organizations watch high-potential employees walk out the door because their views aren’t heard. Even members of a top management team can flee to other organizations after too many instances in which the CEO discounted their ideas, unable to shake the command-and-control leadership style.
The Case for Stack Ranking of Employees
Increasing performance, reviewing performance, and rewarding performance are tough subjects that must be handled skillfully. Microsoft’s stack ranking of employees has been a topic of a number of posts recently that isn’t working out too well when it comes to their employees’ innovation. So how does the middle market company practice these evaluative techniques without alienating their employees or stifling the essential creativity necessary for growth?
Necessary Roughness
Nobody wants to start a fight. Yet in many cases “playing nice” is uncalled for and may indeed hurt your business. Ask yourself these twelve questions before you cross the line.
Recruiting the Right Executives
One of the CEO’s most important tasks is recruiting and maintaining an all-star top team. Here are my key strategies for finding the right executives to move your company forward.
Eager and Able Leadership Team Essential
Do you have capable managers on your top team? That won’t be enough. Managers like/need to be told what to do. Leaders (executives) create momentum on their own, making decisions as needed to achieve an objective. Collecting and growing an excellent leadership team is one of the most critical aspects of a CEO’s job.
Encouraging Hidden Leaders
Hidden leaders can appear anywhere in your life, whether business or personal. Here’s a story of one person who might have been low on the social ladder, but who touched people’s hearts in a big way.
Attracting and Retaining the Optimal Team – Hanson Bridgett
How can you make your workplace different in a way that will attract the highly skilled people you need most? Andrew Giacomini, Managing Partner at Hanson Bridgett, shows how an enlightened approach to team culture makes a law firm stand out.
Recruiting the Best Team
Don’t settle for hiring the first qualified people who apply. Try treating your job candidates like customers and take time to generate a large candidate pool. This will increase your chances of building a great team.
Don’t Let Success Destroy your Culture – Tajima Creative
Each business possesses a unique culture. Clients and jobs that work against that culture present a danger to the employees’ morale and to the foundations of the company itself. Elaine Tajima, CEO of Tajima Creative, made a courageous decision to preserve the heart of her business.
Robert Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He was chief executive of Bentley Publishing Group from 1984 to 2006 and steered the firm to become a leading player in its industry (decorative art publishing).