Tag: CEO succession
Learning From Disney’s Staggering CEO Succession Failure
There are important lessons to be had from how Disney managed the failed CEO succession from Robert Iger to Thomas Staggs. They did a lot right like planning ahead and…
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Three Different Approaches To CEO Succession At Walmart, Kroger And Microsoft… Which Is Best?
We’re in the midst of three very different CEO successions at Walmart, Kroger and Microsoft. The lesson to be learned here is clear: one size does not fit all when…
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Despite Bleak Housing Market, Toll Brothers CEO Isn’t Panicking
ut yourself in Doug Yearley’s shoes in November 2009. You’ve just been named EVP on the way to becoming CEO of luxury home builder Toll Brothers, a company that lost…
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From “You and Me” to “We”
The Harvard Business Review dedicated its entire January, 2009 issue to “Transforming Leaders”, One takeaway from the issue as a whole is the need to move well from “you and…
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