Tag Archive 'CEO Traits & Characteristics'
- In Search of the Leadership Threads
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After finalizing my list, I subjected each of the leaders and the company he led to another kind of analysis. The goal of this exercise was different from that of the work that finalized the list of seven. The sole aim of this research was to identify the leadership threads that tied these CEOs together. [...]
- Great Companies, Great Investments?
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Shareholder returns are one of the most important metrics used to evaluate the performance of a publicly traded company—and, by extension, the CEO who heads it—over the long run. In their respective heydays, all of the companies run by the CEOs profiled in this article have enriched their shareholders over the long term (as indicated [...]
- How the CEOs were Selected
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The seven CEOs depicted in this article represent the best of a breed of managers who were shaped, in part, by the conditions and challenges that characterized the post-1980 business environment. Several factors changed the rules of the game in the 1980s: intense foreign competition (from Europe and Japan, most notably) and a technological environment [...]