Retail, consumer CEOs see shorter tenures as boards act more quickly
When two of the most powerful brands in retail and packaged foods last month ousted their CEOs, it signaled corporate boards are more ready to toss top executives before activist…
For Musk and other foreign CEOs visiting China, silence is golden
A veritable parade of overseas CEOs including Tesla’s Elon Musk and Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon have made their way to a reopened China in the last few months. One notable…
Rich CEOs
No single statistic, in isolation, tells us particularly much. Numbers only gain real meaning when we compare them. Take, for instance, the figure for the increase in CEO pay last…
Oil company CEOs likely to avoid big hit to compensation
These are nervous times at the top of North America's oil companies. Executives are trying to cope with the plunge in oil prices and are slashing costs as they watch…
Games that ‘C-suite’ leaders play
Egos. Silos. Conflicts. These three words are the most oft-repeated in companies. The head of marketing and finance are head on head. The purchasing head is having a snarling match…
The problem lies in the system
Our many political experiments have all failed because no one addressed rule of law and good governance. These are the very foundation of stability, investment and growth. Pakistan’s crisis of…
Blinded at the top
Leading. Rising. Growing. Directing. Marching. Changing. Isolating. Missing. Falling. Is this a leadership life cycle? Is this a typical emerge and submerge tidal wave being followed by the leaders in…
When the leader leaves
Legend. Personality. Character. Icon. Some leaders inspire these titles. They are exceptional personalities that have taken up challenges and delivered. Their achievements are remarkable. Their conduct is exemplary. With such…
Why we need to shift from survival to scale
This article links directly to my article, ‘The real contest of growth’, published in these pages on September 11, where I argued that America invents while China executes. The US…
Companies plan stablecoins under new law, but experts say hurdles remain
Financial companies from Bank of America to Fiserv are preparing to launch their own dollar-backed crypto tokens now that a new US law has established the first-ever rules for stablecoins,…
