corporate leadership snapshot
April 13, 2006 by Mary Wynne-Wynter
What keeps executives up at night: - growth - extreme competition The solutions: - acquisitive growth (strategy) - knowledge of megatrends (knowledge) - management alignment (communications)Tension Headaches in the Corner Office - New York Times:
Tension Headaches in the Corner Office
By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN Published: March 12, 2006"Management alignment" sounds like a very obvious thing to say, but getting a large number of people operating in concert with the vision of a chief executive and a board is nontrivial. The process of translating objectives that have been articulated for shareholders, employees and customers, and cascading them down an organization, so people on the front line understand their role — all of these are nontrivial issues.