• Hiring Without Firing

    Leadership Magazine Article
    Hitting the hiring bull’s-eye is one of an executive’s most important—and most difficult—responsibilities. Ten common mistakes can get in the way, but a pointed and systematic approach can virtually guarantee success.
  • Test Your Board's Readiness for the Post-Covid Era

    Leadership & Managing People Digital Article
    Questions that every board should be asking itself right now.
  • Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth

    Boards Magazine Article
    Bonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […]
  • How Boards Can Plan for the Disasters That No One Wants to Think About

    Organizational Development Digital Article
    Pandemics, global warming, cyberattacks, and other catastrophes are a question of when, not if.
  • Can You Hear Me Now?

    Organizational Development Magazine Article
    Because board meetings involve two groups-directors and managers-and because directors play a difficult dual role as both cops and advisers, boardroom...
  • Bennett, Strang & Farris

    Technology & Operations Case Study
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    A law firm must decide how to split partnership profits among the partners. Issues of seniority versus performance, performance evaluation, and lack of...
  • The Trouble with CFOs

    Leadership Magazine Article
    If the CEO sits in the hot seat, the CFO’s chair is positively smoking. According to analysis conducted by the CFO Executive Board, annual CFO turnover at the largest 162 global companies between 1995 and 2003 was 17%—even higher than for CEOs—and three out of four current Fortune 500 finance officers have been in their […]
  • The Case for Professional Boards

    Organizational Development Magazine Article
    When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards....
  • The Quick Wins Paradox

    Leadership & Managing People Magazine Article
    Many leaders taking on new roles try to prove themselves early on by going after quick wins - fresh, visible contributions to the business. But in the...
  • Board Members: Rocket Fuel or Rocks?

    Boards Digital Article
    A good board can be rocket fuel or it can be rocks in an organization’s pockets. Much of success and failure in the boardroom comes down to the way the individuals around the table — be it on a public company board, a small private board, or a non-profit board — do their jobs. So […]