Corporate
The desire to understand what makes founders tick is longstanding and has recently resurfaced in the wake of investor Paul Graham’s widely read essay on “founder mode.” To answer this question, researchers at ghSMART recently analyzed more than 1,400 data points
Corporate, Private Equity, Public and Social
Disney, Starbucks, P&G, Microsoft, GE, Ford, Twitter, Dell, Nike, and scores of other marquee companies in their prime have stumbled painfully in CEO transitions.
Corporate, Private Equity, Public and Social
Most leaders are, deep down, afraid of failure. But a 10-year study of over 2,600 leaders showed almost half (45%) suffered at least one major career blow-up — like getting fired, messing up a major deal, or blowing an acquisition.
Corporate, Private Equity, Public and Social
As the public debates the merits of the recent corporate tax cuts, most people are dangerously oblivious to a bigger and in the long run costlier problem: that of picking the wrong CEOs to lead companies in the first place.
