When Picking a C.E.O. Is More Random Than Wise - NYTimes.com
Deal Professor 7/24/2012
About Board selection of CEO's: James Rodgers at Duke Energy and Marissa Mayer at Yahoo
EXCEPTS:
There is little solid research on what makes an effective chief executive, which makes choosing a candidate the product of a board’s vision and personalities rather than one of careful contemplation.
"I’m reminded of an exercise I once did at an old law firm retreat run by a group of consultants...
This result is in accord with research on small-group dynamics and decision-making. The selection of executives is influenced by directors’ own biases and backgrounds... This is influenced by a group negotiation process that depends on the people and personalities involved. In the end, these boards tend to pick people who reflect themselves and the world they already know — something that psychologists call the confirmation bias.
The decision to pick a chief executive is often steered by flocks of high-level recruitment consultants. Recruiters are paid millions to have a stable of candidates that they feed to boards, steering the process in pursuit of the board’s sometimes ill-defined wishes. This inherently limits the pool of candidates and further pushes boards to confirm their own biases in any selection.
Ms. Mayer and Mr. Rogers may do terrific jobs at their companies. But their appointments do not necessarily mean that they are the best candidates. Rather, their selection is a result of random and nonrandom factors."
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
2012 Property Casualty Ward's 50® Companies | Ward Group |
Property Casualty Ward's 50® Companies | Ward Group | Empowering Companies Through Knowledge.
The companies listed rank as the top performing property-casualty companies based on the Ward Group annual analysis of the insurance industry. They each have passed all safety and consistency screens and have achieved superior performance over the five years analyzed (2007-2011).
Companies are listed alphabetically. An important objective is to benchmark their performance as a group with the rest of the property-casualty insurance industry. The Ward's 50 list and comparisons based on benchmarks set by Ward's 50 companies are available in Ward's Results®, an insurance industry financial reference series.
Learn more about the 2012 Ward's 50 Property-Casualty Top Performers: http://www.wardinc.com/wards50/WardGroup-W50-12-PC-Article.pdf
The companies listed rank as the top performing property-casualty companies based on the Ward Group annual analysis of the insurance industry. They each have passed all safety and consistency screens and have achieved superior performance over the five years analyzed (2007-2011).
Companies are listed alphabetically. An important objective is to benchmark their performance as a group with the rest of the property-casualty insurance industry. The Ward's 50 list and comparisons based on benchmarks set by Ward's 50 companies are available in Ward's Results®, an insurance industry financial reference series.
Learn more about the 2012 Ward's 50 Property-Casualty Top Performers: http://www.wardinc.com/wards50/WardGroup-W50-12-PC-Article.pdf
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Bullying Is a Confidence Game - Whitney Johnson - Harvard Business Review
by Whitney Johnson
7:00 AM July 13, 2012
EXCERPTS
Bullying Is a Confidence Game - Whitney Johnson - Harvard Business Review: Remember that the lesson of Oz is to have have faith in yourself. Whatever it is you so dearly want, whether it's courage, a brain or a heart, or simply to be at home — all the things the alluring Wizard is promising — have been within your power to achieve all along. And while a bully may have almost conned you into believing you couldn't go home, a leader will never let you forget that you can.
7:00 AM July 13, 2012
EXCERPTS
Bullying Is a Confidence Game - Whitney Johnson - Harvard Business Review: Remember that the lesson of Oz is to have have faith in yourself. Whatever it is you so dearly want, whether it's courage, a brain or a heart, or simply to be at home — all the things the alluring Wizard is promising — have been within your power to achieve all along. And while a bully may have almost conned you into believing you couldn't go home, a leader will never let you forget that you can.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
ACCEPTANCE - Lionel Ketchian - July 1, 2012 Happiness Newsletter
July 1, 2012 Happiness Newsletter - Be Happy Zone
By Lionel Ketchian
EXCERPTS
It is the resistance that is causing you all the problems. . If you just accept that you feel bad right now, then you can accept your feeling without making yourself feel worse that you feel something negative.
As Eckhart Tolle wrote in his book, The Power Of Now: "By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
Accepting the way you are for right now, for this moment only, you free yourself from wanting things to be different in the future.
You can't change what has already happened to you. You can only choose to accept it. Once you accept it, you have done more to change it than you ever could do by not accepting it.
Don't try to be happy, choose it and be happy. Being happy will allow you to take control of your thinking. Being unhappy allows your thinking to take control of you. By not having control of our thinking and happiness we create our problems. By not being accepting, we allow unhappiness to step in. We cannot change this moment. Acceptance of this moment allows us to experience peace. We may not like what has happened but we can be at peace with it. This allows us the peace of mind to see what our best choices are now.
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By Lionel Ketchian
EXCERPTS
It is the resistance that is causing you all the problems. . If you just accept that you feel bad right now, then you can accept your feeling without making yourself feel worse that you feel something negative.
As Eckhart Tolle wrote in his book, The Power Of Now: "By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
Accepting the way you are for right now, for this moment only, you free yourself from wanting things to be different in the future.
You can't change what has already happened to you. You can only choose to accept it. Once you accept it, you have done more to change it than you ever could do by not accepting it.
Don't try to be happy, choose it and be happy. Being happy will allow you to take control of your thinking. Being unhappy allows your thinking to take control of you. By not having control of our thinking and happiness we create our problems. By not being accepting, we allow unhappiness to step in. We cannot change this moment. Acceptance of this moment allows us to experience peace. We may not like what has happened but we can be at peace with it. This allows us the peace of mind to see what our best choices are now.
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