Analysis & Opinion

• Four Ways For Business Leaders To Raise Cultural Intelligence
  The need for global leaders who can effectively manage across cultures, along with a shortage of people capable of doing this, is a challenge facing most companies undertaking globalization strategies.
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• Men called to fight for women's rights
  Influential businessmen need to start campaign for women in leadership roles to overcome a waste of talent, says the federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner. By Caris Bizzaca
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• Cool-headed bosses reaping rewards now
  UK bosses who kept their cool during the recession and implemented job-saving measures instead of cuts are now seeing the benefits, it has been claimed. By Chris Malone
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• CEOs lay off thousands, rake in millions
  Report: Top execs made more than average when payrolls cut. By Roland Jones
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• Leadership's next frontier: Changing how we use our words and bodies
  "In Japan, we say there are three genders: Men, women, and American women," joked the head of our Tokyo office.
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• CEOs now expected to just hang on and keep the company going
  More and more firms are promoting an insider, such as CFOs, to the top job.
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• Africa’s Top 10 CEOs
  We’ve put together our top 10 list of the most powerful and successful corporate leaders from across the continent.By Jennifer Denby
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• Why good bosses tune in to their people
  Know how to project power, counsels Stanford management professor Bob Sutton, since those you lead need to believe you have it for it to be effective. And to lock in your team’s loyalty, boldly defend their backs. By Robert I. Sutton
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• FTSE-100 firms facing non-executive director shortage
  The UK’s top companies are starring into the barrel of a “serious” talent shortage for non-executive directors (NED).
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• Revealed: It will take until 2067 for gender pay gap to finally disappear
  From Ann Gloag to Michelle Mone, there are plenty of women making waves in the world of business. By Craig McQueen
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• Why does big business hate maternity leave?
  A new survey suggests that motherhood and high-flying careers are still mutually exclusive. How mad. By Joanna Moorhead
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• Separating the best CEOs from the dolts
  Headlines about smart leaders who do dumb things abound. The antics of deposed chief executives Mark Hurd and Tony Hayward are centrestage now, but tales of CEO delusion and detachment are never in short supply. By Robert Sutton
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• Middle Eastern employers plan to reshape talent programmes as economy lifts
  Employers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are planning to reshape their talent programmes as the global economy shifts out of recession. However, less than 10% of respondents in both regions have the confidence that their organisation is very effective at measuring the impact of their talent decisions and investments.
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• Business books: Wise advice or a load of waffle?
  Walk into any book store and the self-help titles adorning the shelves offer you hope, solace, inspiration, faith in your own powers and a promise of a bright new life. By James Melik
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• Are women more responsible entrepreneurs?
  New figures have shown women are 'more responsible' business owners than men. But is that a good thing?
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• Who is the key decision-maker, the owner or the CEO?
  Narendra Patni, the Founder and Chairman of Patni Computer Systems (PCS) hired a CEO last year from a multi-national company and made announcement that he would be moving to the role of non-executive chairman. For a company, which is named after the founder and with three brothers holding an equal stake that amounts to 49 percent of the company's equity, it's a major step, writes Dibeyendu Ganguly of the Economic Times.
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• Forget highly paid CEOs. It's ants and bees who can lead us to the economic promised land
  Peter Miller's debut book Smart Swarm says bees can help businesses run more efficiently. By Louisa Peacock
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• UK management guru deserves a revival
  Say the name Lyndall Urwick to any group of managers or management scholars and the chances are that you will receive only a flicker of recognition. Review by Morgen Witzel
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• New Technology Makes Leadership Development Programs "Stick"
  Organizations invest billions of dollars every year on training to build strong managers and supervisors. Even with world-class leadership development programs, the skills introduced in the classroom usually don’t translate into the desired improvements in the workplace.
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• The Language of Success
  There is a common language used by top-level managers in every company. It is a language centered on business concepts and understanding a handful of concepts. By Kevin Wheeler
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• Ten CEOs to Watch in 2010
  For many CEOs, 2009 was a tough year, where the aim was not just about making profits, but also surviving. For others, the downturn had a minimal effect, with some companies outperforming their rivals. Michael Jones and Steve Coomber of Chief Executive Officer Magazine look at the leaders set for a positive 2010.
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• With Asian Industry Astir, More Job-Seekers Go East
  Landing a position in Asia, though, is not just a matter of being willing to make a new life halfway around the world. Many employers prefer candidates who have track records in the region and who bring language skills and local contacts to the job.
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• Performance Management Systems: Searching for the Holy Grail?
  A performance management system is a continual work-in-progress, and fewer organisations appear to be happy with their system than was the case nine years ago.
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• Businesses sailing into a 'perfect storm'
  Matthew Parker discusses why CEOs need to prioritise talent in their recovery plans after two years of damaging cut-backs
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• A Checklist for Successful Onboarding
  Onboarding — easing a new hire into his or her job as quickly and efficiently as possible — is a technique that a growing number of businesses are adopting. But while onboarding programs are becoming increasingly popular, it's also true that many businesses fail to exploit the process to its full potential. By John Edwards
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• Top 10 communication mistakes made by CIOs
  CIOs in the USA and former CIOs offer their communications advice By Meridith Levinson
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• Out-of-Work CEOs Find Openings at the Top Are Few, Callbacks Rare
  Nowadays, former chief executive Anne Stevens spends time job hunting and making créme caramel in the kitchen of her 13,400-square-foot home in this Philadelphia suburb. By Joann S. Lublin
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• Now, Put Yourself in My Shoes
  Susan Docherty, who leads the United States sales, service and marketing team at General Motors, says she asks job candidates for three things they would do if they were in her position. This interview was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.
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• Beyond gender balance
  A CEO Forum interview with Kevin Barrow - Managing Director - BD Australia and New Zealand
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• Five forces reshaping the global economy: McKinsey Global Survey results
  The core drivers of globalization are alive and well, but executives are still grappling with how to seize the opportunities of an interlinked world economy.
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• Will Europe Raise the Retirement Age?
  For Europe's millions, it's apt that their home is known as the Old Continent. Europe is aging. Thanks to higher life expectancies and lower birth rates, overall population growth is slowing and the average age of Europeans is creeping upward steadily. By Leo Cendrowicz
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• The More CEOs Make, the Worse They Treat Their Workers, Says a New Study
  CEO pay has been blasted for increasing risk to the economy, being out of proportion to ordinary wages and being unrelated to actual company performance. And, according to a new study, a high salary may actually make your company's CEO meaner. By Nathaniel Cahners Hindman
  
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• INSEAD: report uncovers CEO views of how to stage an economic recovery
  INSEAD, has worked in partnership with the consultancy Accenture and the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB) to prepare a report entitled, ‘Putting Europe Back on Track’, which was published at the European Business Summit 2010 in Brussels.
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• US Jobs Report Shows Economy Struggling to Gain Footing
  The U.S. economy added 83,000 private sector jobs in June, on the low end of what economists had been expecting, but evidence, nonetheless, that payrolls are continuing to grow. By John Zappe
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• CEOs Should Tell It Like It Is
  As a young CEO, I felt the pressure—the pressure of employees depending on me, the pressure of not really knowing what I was doing, the pressure of being responsible for tens of millions of dollars of other people’s money. As a consequence of this pressure, I took losses extremely hard. By Ben Horowitz
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• Out-of-the-box executive search
  When Denice Kronau joined the US branch of Siemens, the German engineering group, in 2002, she was taken aback by the uniformity of its executives.
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• Affirmatively Defenseless: Avoiding Workplace Blowouts
  Ask senior executives to assess the risk in a business matter and many will turn first to their lawyers for guidance.
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• When is a Fridge Not a Fridge…??
  I recently sat in my car in the departure lane at the Port of Dover, waiting for my Norfolkline ferry to Dunkerque. The Maersk Dover arrived on the hour, and within a few minutes started to discharge its cargo of cars and trucks. As a Supply Chain practitioner I watched the process with professional interest. Although it was possible to see the origin of the trucks (almost all European countries were represented) I could only speculate on the contents. Twenty minutes later the process was reversed, and I drove on board with the other waiting cars and trucks. The ferry departed on time, one hour after arrival. By Paul Gooch, The Logical Group
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• What the Brightest Scholars Say About Leadership
  Works on the subject of leadership weigh down bookstore shelves the world over. Tomes tell you how to be a 30-second manager, how to inspire your employees like Churchill, and the three keys to "strength-based leadership." Everyone has been writing about leadership, in fact, except the people you would expect to be most active in the field: scholars. By Martha Lagace
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• Time to Re-invent Employer Branding
  In the UK we've become obsessed with the notion of the employer brand. There are a number of definitions but, in short, it is essentially the brand (both physical and behavioural forms) that the employer presents to existing, potential and new employees. By Ian Buckingham
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• Kick-Start your Talent Machine
  Every CEO worries about having enough talent, but most are frustrated by the time and effort it takes to kick-start the talent machine. The most effective CEOs today not only recognize that it’s important to find, develop and deploy the best people, they also take personal responsibility for making it happen. By Askin Morrison
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• In the U.K., Tough Times For Female Directors
  Lucy Dimes embodies what it means to be determined. With a degree in business, an M.B.A. from the London Business School and a graduate of Harvard Business School's Global Women in Leadership Program, 44-year-old Ms. Dimes has always been keen to stretch her abilities and take on new challenges.
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• Focus on People: Anne Lauvergeon, Chairman Areva
  She's the boss of French nuclear power company Areva and she doesn't give a damn about titles – or about turning Nicholas Sarkozy down
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• A Barometer of HR Trends and Prospects 2010
  Throughout 2009 the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) surveyed every changing aspect of the world of work. This eighth annual people management and development barometer report is a compendium of individual surveys drawing out common themes and highlighting emerging trends.
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• India: Talent Shortages in India Create Opportunities for the Indian Diaspora
  When discussions about India emerge, much is spoken about cricket, Bollywood and the amazing growth India is experiencing. One rarely speaks with any urgency about the skill deficit that the country is facing at the moment. By Anjuna Kalsi
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• Employers are obsessed with performance
  The recession has destroyed a huge number of jobs, which means that unhappiness and anxiety is now common in the workplace. By Duncan Bannatyne.
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• Expert says women must be pushed to break through glass ceiling
  Bosses should be harder on their female staff to help them achieve their full potential, according to a senior US consultant to start-up businesses. By Peter Ranscombe
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• CEOs Who Work In Cubicles
  By working out in the open, CEOs make themselves more accessible to staffers. The arrangement also helps to humanize the boss. By Helen Coster
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• Wise PR counsel is as vital to CEOs as an army of lawyers
  David Wolf, CEO at Wolf Group Asia, advises CEOs in the region to shell out for intelligent and capable PR counsel as the BP oil spill and Foxconn suicides continues to dominate headlines across the world.
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• NYSE Euronext Survey: Nearly Half Of CEOs To Hire By 2012
  Nearly half the chief executives who responded to a NYSE Euronext (NYX) survey plan to hire by 2012, though companies outside the U.S. were more likely to add employees. By By Matt Jarzemsky
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• Fueling an Appetite for Leadership
  Why is it so compelling to debate the nature of leadership? The debacles of the past decade and the challenges of the next have urged us to rethink what counts as leadership. But despite rigorous science, philosophical argument, inspired storytelling, refined commentary, artistic imagery, witty critique, gossip, and small talk, leadership remains as mysterious as ever. By Gianpiero Petriglieri
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• Five Rules for Making Smart Hires
  With the economy showing signs of recovery, many organizations are speeding up hiring decisions for key roles that stood vacant throughout the recession. By Roland Smith
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• Dancing chief executive makes sense
  Jon Moulton reviews: "Employees First, Customers Second Turning conventional management upside down" by Vineet Nayar - chief executive of HCL Technologies, the Indian IT consultancy.
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• La vie en rose
  Most French bosses have little time for a new law, now going through parliament, which would compel listed companies to lift the proportion of women on their boards to 40% by 2016.
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• How Women Entrepreneurs Are Driving Business In The Middle East
  Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud, princess from the Saudi Royal family, is out to prove that the stereotypical Arabic woman is no more. As President and CEO of ALFA International and Al Hama LLC, she is eager to defy the misconception that Saudi women are unsophisticated consumers who will buy any product put in front of them.
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• How the recession has changed the face of talent management - for the good
  The recent downturn changed the face of work for many people who are still employed. Ironically, many employee programmes that were introduced during this past recession to cut costs have proven to be quite beneficial to employees and organisations alike, pushing organisations toward offering employees a more customised, personalised - and more satisfying - work experience. By Susan Cantrell and David Smith
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• RICHARD BRANSON: Every entrepreneur needs some backup
  People tend to think of entrepreneurs as lone heroes, but this isn’t how it works in real life. Many live up to their reputation as risk-takers and some remain outsiders, but despite this outlier status, entrepreneurs need support to be successful.
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• CEOs are no longer free agents who can afford to ignore their boards
  Last year whenever I asked directors who attended the one-day corporate governance (CG) programme organised by Securities Industry Development Corp and PricewaterhouseCoopers for independent directors entitled “Is it worth the risk?” whether they could imagine independent directors getting rid of CEOs, the answer was a resounding “no”. By John Zinkin
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• ‘Talent can be a dirty word'
  I would have failed the career motivation test if it had been in use when I joined KPMG,” says Rachel Campbell, laughing. “And I might not have joined, had I known what the first four years would be like.” Campbell, HR supremo at Big Four professional services firm KPMG, chose accountancy, she says, mainly because she wanted to come to London. By Hashi Syedain
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• How conversations build a company
  Whether your goal is improved workplace relations or improved market share, your most valuable currency is relationship, emotional capital. This is far from a naive, feel-good notion. It's good business sense.By Susan Scott
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• How much autonomy do professional CEOs really have?
  Named after the founder, with three brothers holding an equal stake that amounts to 49% of the company's equity, Patni Computer Systems (PCS) is as 'family' as it gets in the IT industry. So it was a major step when Narendra Patni hired a CEO from a multi-national company last year and announced that he would be moving to the role of non-executive chairman. By Dibeyendu Ganguly
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• CEOs top list of highest-paid jobs for women
  They earn about 80% of what men make, but are closing the gap quickly. By Jenna Goudreau
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• The Physiology Of Leadership
  I was excited as soon as I saw the title of Daniel Coyle's book, The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. By Sangeeth Varghese
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• Singapore Positions To Be Global Talent And Leadership Hub For Asia
  Developing Singapore as a home for local and global talent will be a key strategy in the next phase of growth, says Minister Gan Kim Yong at the opening of the human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI).
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• Women in executive positions are perceived as better leaders than men, according to a new study.
  The prevailing stereotype that women in business are too sensitive or not as competent can stop them from advancing through the so-called 'glass ceiling'.
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• American women CEOs smash glass ceiling earning 40% more than their male counterparts
  America's top women bosses smashed through the glass ceiling to earn substantially fatter pay packets than their male counterparts last year, according to a new report. By David Gardner
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• A criminal record should not close the door on a career
  One of the toughest challenges for business leaders is to recognise potential and identify the best talent to improve their companies. By  Duncan Bannatyn
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• 3 Indians among Forbes 500 top paid CEOs
  PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Quest Diagnostics' Surya N. Mohapatra and Adobe Systems' Shantanu Narayen are three Indian Americans figuring in the Forbes list of highest paid CEOs of the 500 biggest US companies.
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• Africa: Continent's Trade Policy at Crossroads
  Business leaders were at crossroads between being confident and weighed down by the risk of doing business in Africa, according a new global CEO survey by the PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC).
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• The Most Under-Paid CEO in America Is...
  Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt. By Derek Thompson
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• Four Big Ways Leaders Exercise Good Judgment
  Nearly every day news reports bring us fresh ideas for curbing the wild risk-taking that has rocked the U.S. financial system and the global economy. Many of these reform schemes seem predicated on the same shared assumption, that greed for bigger compensation packages drove investment bankers to recklessly pursue rewards while ignoring risks. By John R. Ryan
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• Is work overload worse than smoking pot?
  Everything these days is immediate; email, text messaging, Twitter, Facebook, Skype, conference calls - you get the idea.  In fact during a normal day at work the majority of us are bombarded with so much information that is work related, that it is no surprise that at the end of the day we just want to crash out on the sofa. By Ross Densley
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• Think clearly in a crisis and be decisive
  How do you make sure that you are thinking straight at moments of sudden and unexpected crisis? Few of us are faced with such stark dilemmas – how the hell do I get home? – too often. But leaders constantly have to make big calls, and often under great pressure. By Stefan Stern
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• How leaders should manage crises, both personal and business
  It’s rare to read a book where the introduction is almost worth the price of the book all by itself, but in Bill George’s 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis, the introduction succinctly explains the recent financial downturn with great clarity and simplicity.
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• The Potential Of Women In Emerging Markets
  As Western markets grapple with the lingering ripples of recession, companies are turning to emerging markets for respite. Many, however, may not be considering how women can help their business -  and how their business can help women. By Hana R. Alberts
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• A C.E.O. Beauty Contest
  Chief executives  look more competent than the general populace, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are, a new study of facial features finds.By Catherine Rampell
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• The real outrage is how CEOs are paid, not how much
  It's outrage season, formerly known as proxy season, when recession-shocked Americans get furious at the new list of insanely overpaid CEOs. The leader so far is Occidental Petroleum chief Ray Irani ($59 million), an excessive-pay hall-of-famer, but he may be overtaken by others as more proxies are filed.  Interview by Geoff Colvin
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• Singapore reveals blacklist of rogue directors
  The Singapore Exchange has distributed a blacklist of ten former company directors who “failed to act in the interests of shareholders” and warned listed companies to reconsider before hiring them. By Leo Lewis
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• Employee Assessments Are Key to Maximizing Talent Management Results
  Top Performing Companies Report That 84% of Their Employees Receive a Rating of "Exceeds Expectations" in Their Latest Performance Review.
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• Straight Talk: Oprah's Leadership Lessons
  The salacious wind and waves distract us from the real story of Oprah's journey thus far and what its larger lessons are for all of us. That story is one of leadership. By Nancy F Koen
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• Executives in India have the highest faith in their CEOs
  According to the survey 'Confidence in Leadership Index', executives in India have the highest faith in their CEOs and general corporate leadership.
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• As Crisis Eases, CEOs Give Staff Some TLC
  Executives Take the Opportunity to Listen to Concerns, Elicit Ideas and Bolster Morale. By Dana Mattioli
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• Ask the experts: ‘NEDs must never do an executive’s role’
  Jonathan Moules discovers what you need beware of when bringing a non-executive director onto the team.
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• CEO Confidence Slips in First Quarter
  The Conference Board’s measure of CEO confidence fell to a reading of 62 in the first quarter from a reading of 64 in the fourth quarter.
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• Clarity from Switzerland
  How well does your company’s annual report communicate and reinforce leadership intent and corporate values? By Milton Moskowitz
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• The celebrity effect
  The magical effect of putting a famous face on a company's board.
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• India’s new management model
  Stefan Stern reviews: The India Way, How India’s Top Business Leaders are Revolutionizing Management By Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh, Jitendra Singh and Michael Useem
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• Business leaders have to embrace blogging as a research portal
  Every business leader is focused on achieving the bottom line, some at whatever cost, as this is what is used to define their success. By Richard Gitonga
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• CEOs See Pay Fall Again
  The boss took another haircut as CEO compensation edged lower in 2009, the first time in two decades that pay declined for two consecutive years. By Joann S. Lublin
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• In Germany, a Quota for Female Managers
  Germany's boardrooms have long been a cherished male preserve. But that's about to change at one of the country's biggest companies, Deutsche Telekom, which has just unveiled a radical new plan to fast-track more women into management roles.
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• How to Hire a CIO
  An important rule of thumb: pick someone who doesn't talk much about technology.
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• CEOs hold on to their jobs even after salary cuts
  For months, Wall Street banks and the troubled automakers feverishly protested that their top executives would flee if they were not lavishly rewarded for their talents.
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• CEOs also prone to acute sense of humour failures
  It’s not easy being top dog. CEOs have to deal with demanding customers, employees, investors, and the public at large regularly. You can’t blame them for having a moment now and then, the businesspundit.com website reports.
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• Work/Life: How to Avoid Falling Behind on the Road
  Staying productive on prolonged business travel trips is difficult. Not only does a great deal of your work/life get eaten up in meetings, presentations, events, and transit, but your access to the usual amenities of doing business becomes curtailed. Consequently, even the simplest tasks become a challenge. By Michael Valkevich
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• In Defense of the Expense
  Despite the rhetoric, HR executives often have little proof of the results of learning initiatives, even in the best of times. Now, with training budgets under the microscope, HR leaders must ensure there is accountability that training and development initiatives get the desired business results. By Kathy Leck and Susan Vece
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• Leadership Lessons For The New Economy
  Whether you're a stay-at-home mom or a [woman] CEO, at some point in your life you will have a defining moment when your resilience is tested. The strategies you employ will determine whether you will succeed as a leader. By Lori Ann LaRocco
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• The Secret to Motivating Your Team
  If pay isn't the key to encouraging great performance and attracting and keeping great people, what is? By Alan Murray
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• TCB Report: CEO Challenge 2010 - Top ten challenges
  CEOs appear to be coming out of the recession “weeds” and priming for a return to growth in 2010. Concerns synonymous with the global financial crisis of late 2008 (e.g., global economic performance and business confidence) have dropped out of the top 10. In the current survey, such growth-oriented challenges as sustained and steady top-line growth, customer loyalty/retention, and profit growth received higher ratings as “greatest concerns.”
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• Warriors in the Workplace
  John Suh wanted to make a good impression on his new mentor. Before their first meeting last November, the 26-year-old former Army officer came up with a clear outline for what he hoped to get out of the relationship and rehearsed what he would say when the time came. By Brian O'Keefe
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• For CEO Pay, a Single Number Never Tells the Whole Story
  Eli Lilly & Co. Chief Executive John Lechleiter received compensation of $20.9 million last year, up 45% from a year earlier, according to the formula the drug maker was required to use in its proxy statement. But Lilly thinks it is fairer to value the CEO's pay at $15.9 million, up 10%. By Scott Thurm
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• Skirting the Issue
  Imposing quotas for women in boardrooms tackles a symptom of discrimination, not the cause.
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• Good Leaders Buy Low And Sell High, Too
  Good leaders are all about being contrarians, perceiving what is distant and doing what is right rather than what everybody else is doing. By Sangeeth Varghese
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• Why women e-mail at night by Mrs. Moneypenny of the FT
  When is it socially acceptable to e-mail? What is the etiquette when e-mailing someone, particularly about a work matter, on a Saturday night? Doesn’t it look a little sad? Mrs. Moneypenny thinks so, but do we?
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• Leadership Lessons from India
  Embattled U.S. business leaders may want to take a lesson from CEOs in India, who put shareholder value fourth on their list of priorities. Not only are the Indian companies able to do well while doing good, there is every reason to believe that they have done well precisely because they are doing good. By Peter Cappelli
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• Leadership Is Something You Decide To Do
  "WICS is an acronym for "wisdom, intelligence, creativity synthesized." The basic idea behind it is that leadership is not something you are born with and is not an inherited trait. It's something you decide to do." Sangeeth Varghese talks with Dr Sternberg about what he calls his "WICS" model for creating leaders.
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• Big Girls Still Don't Cry
  Experts say women continue to face special issues in the office, such as wage discrimination, sexual harassment and penalties for pregnancy and family leave. It remains a steep climb for them to move up in the corporate world. So the advice industry for the distaff half is still going strong. By Andrea Sachs
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• Leaders Can Learn Something from Advertising - Honest!
  A Fast Company blogger explains how two recent advertising campaigns have a relevance for business leaders.
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• Don't assume a CEO can work in any industry
  It is important to figure out a person's talent and negatives, says Ram Charan, leading business advisor and author.
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• Don't forget your people
  Chief executives are starting to focus once again on people issues rather than purely financial survival in an effort to head off any future employee retention crisis as and when vacancies and job confidence start to return.
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• CEOs Express Economic Optimism
  Chief Executive Officers throughout the nation are getting beyond the depression of the recession and increasingly preparing for economic growth and recovery, according to national survey released today. by Joshua Molina
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• The Myth of the Pipeline: Inequality Still Plagues Working Women, Study Finds
  Betsy Stark discusses the findings of a study by Catalyst: Women 'Lag Men in Advancement and Compensation From Their Very First Professional Jobs'.
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• Business Leaders Around the World Need to Prepare for an Era of Slow Growth
  Few Companies Are Acting Decisively Enough in the Wake of the Global Downturn; Leaders Should Take Their Cue From Companies That Gained a Competitive Advantage in Equally Challenging Economic Times, Such as the Great Depression and Japan's "Lost Decade". By Boston Consulting Group
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• CEOs Remain Hesitant to Hire
  CEOs say they remain hesitant to hire, underlining the difficulty the economy faces in restarting job growth amid mixed employment news Friday. By Dana Mattioli
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• Why Do MBAs Make Better CEOs?
  An MBA really does help a CEO to add value. At least, that's what a recent INSEAD study suggests. The more difficult question is why? By Herminia Ibarra, Morten T. Hansen, and Urs Peyer
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• Planning For Your Next CEO
  It's high time for boards to get succession planning right. By Ana Dutra and Joseph E. Griesedieck
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• Why insensitive bosses make more sense
  Every once in a very long while, someone says something that is so original, so daring and so true that (to quote Dr Hook) it makes your pants want to get up and dance. By Lucy Kellaway
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• It matters whether CEO is from inside or outside
  How many times do we hear comments like “the firm needs a fresh start” and it needs to recruit a new CEO from outside to “shake things up”? It is a common perception that CEOs recruited from outside companies are more likely to make bolder changes than CEOs promoted from within. By Yan Anthea Zhang
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• Big Private Banks Are Moving CEOs To Asia
  Some of the world’s largest financial groups, including HSBC and JP Morgan, are relocating their private banking chiefs in Asia to exploit the rapid expansion of the region, according to the Financial Times. Tom Burroughes
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• Genuine Business Lessons From Donald Trump
  At a time when Main Street is calling for the scalps of business titans from John Thain, the former chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch, to Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America, somehow Donald Trump remains unscathed. Not just unscathed but extremely popular. By Shaun Rein
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• Which of These Six Leadership Styles Works Best?
  Leadership is a big, vague, amorphous topic. We can write about great leaders at great length. But practically speaking, how do you become one? By Alan Murray
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• The silver tsunami
  Business will have to learn how to manage an ageing workforce.
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• How To Help a Leader Get Back on Track
  Trusted advisers need to know that the person in charge really wants to hear the truth when they've lost their way. And those advisers have to make a commitment to candor, says Walter Scott of the Kellogg School of Management.
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• CEOs Frustrated by Economic Policies
  Measures to Aid Business Are Languishing Amid Other Priorities, CEOs Say. By Elizabeth Williamson
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• Post-crisis, India, China mainstay of world economy: CEOs
  Global financial crisis has "irreversibly" shifted the world economic power to emerging markets like India and China, top global CEOs said
  as the five-day World Economic Forum opened at the Swiss Alpine resort Davos on Wednesday.
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• Business leaders need to build trust
  If companies think that they can simply go back to "business as unusual" in the post-recession world, they should think again. In Europe and the US, at least, a sceptical public now view trust and transparency as more important than the quality of a company's products and services. By Brian Amble
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• CEOs are confident in 2010 world economy
  More than three-quarters of 1,200 chief executives in 52 countries polled by PricewaterhouseCoopers expressed confidence in the 2010 global economy. "Last year, we clearly were in a crisis mode," says Dennis M. Nally, global chairman of New York-based PwC. "The fears of a global economic meltdown have receded and CEOs are more upbeat." By Tom Stundza
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• The corruption of management
  While the economic crisis has been explained as a failure of governance, a failure of regulation, and even a failure of our free-market system, the prosaic truth is that it was a failure of management – a story of awful risk management decisions, perverse incentives systems, and amoral behaviour. By Julian Birkinshaw - London Business School
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• Developing women leaders
  The goal of increasing the proportion of women in leadership positions is one many organizations have adopted as a matter of principle.  Just how this should be done, however, has proved a little more elusive.  Fortunately, this recent book by US author and consultant Dr. Anna Marie Valerio has much to offer.
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• Innovation leadership
  How to bring innovation to your leadership role and your organisation. By David Magellan Horth and Allan J. Calarco, Centre for Creative Leadership
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• Trendwatcher: Soft Skills by Any Other Name
  Many businesspeople don't like the term "soft skills." It seems too touchy-feely and fuzzy to have a hard and measurable business impact, and they worry that this phrase diminishes a critical set of business skills. By Eric Davis
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• Ten CEOs to Watch in 2010
  For many CEOs, 2009 was a tough year, where the aim was not just about making profits, but also surviving. For others, the downturn had a minimal effect, with some companies outperforming their rivals. Michael Jones and Steve Coomber look at the leaders set for a positive 2010.
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• Recovery Bound
  The most pressing post-recession task for HR leaders at the nation's largest companies will be to provide highly engaged workers able to execute new business strategies. By Scott Flander
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• Sustainability, not selfishness, will grow the talent of the future
  The war for talent was short-sighted and destructive. A more collaborative approach is needed instead. By People Management's Mark Butler
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• Female power
  Across the rich world more women are working than ever before. Coping with this change will be one of the great challenges of the coming decades.
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• The right attitude for leaders
  The worst may be over, but this does not mean that 2010 will offer happier times for businesses. Is now a time for bold action, seizing opportunities that others have not spotted? Or should business leaders proceed with caution, given that more bad economic news could emerge at any time? What should a boss’s attitude be at the start of the new year?
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• Uptick in Executive Jobs Seen for 2010
  Recruiters are bullish on the outlook for executive-level job hunters in 2010. By Sarah E. Needleman
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