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Five Lessons CEOS can Learn from Fighter Pilots

Chief executives, if they are lucky, rarely need the split-second decision-making of fighter pilots, yet, like fighter pilots, CEOs must...

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Three Lessons CEOs Can Learn from King Hammurabi

King Hammurabi—of “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” fame—gets a bad rap in business schools. But maybe the management precepts...

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CEO QUIZ: Match the CEO to the Commencement Message

Duke University recently announced that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will be its 2018 commencement speaker. Apple CEO Tim Cook If the past is...

Some Of The Greatest Motivational Quotes From CEOs This Year

Making Social Responsibility Pervasive “It should no longer be just about typical ‘corporate social responsibility’ (or that horrible...

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Are You On A Strong- Or Weak-Link Board?

A board member of a Fortune 1000 company recently came to me with his frustration that board decisions were not executed correctly unless...

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Unforgiven: The Failed Apology of Equifax CEO Richard Smith

Even a perfect apology doesn’t vaccinate a company against fallout from corporate misbehavior. Two weeks after Equifax chairman and CEO...

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Apology

A clumsy bad apology is worse than no apology at all because the clumsiness just reinforces the original offense the apology was meant to...

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4 Habits For Building And Sustaining “Value-Creating” Boards

Boards are more than a required governance mechanism. “Great boards can create value and help the enterprise differentiate itself in the...

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Why Apologies Are More Effective Without Explanations

As the pace of apologies by business people responding to accusations of sexual misconduct accelerates, the apologies are not keeping up....

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What Happens After Apology?

Even a perfect corporate apology doesn’t vaccinate a company against fallout from corporate misbehavior. Two weeks after Equifax chairman...

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