Performance-based pay for executives is commonplace in leading companies, but few have implemented performance incentives across their broad…
Performance-based pay for executives is commonplace in leading companies, but few have implemented performance incentives across their broad…
Sometimes you just have to wonder at how dumb some people can be. I know, not a nice way to start a blog post, but wait till you hear this. …
This week has seen a breakout of reality testing on the part of the world’s fiscal functionaries. The German high court has given its par…
I have witnessed the rawness of emotion, pure joy and the simplicity of happiness in the years that I have been building RedBalloon. On my r…
Power Players know that serious problems need serious people to solve them. But they also know that heavy on the serious can very quickly re…
Companies today are mixing up strategy and goals with dire effects, says Richard Rumelt, the Harry and Elsa Kunin Professor of Business and …
It’s not what you know, or even who you know: when it comes to the boardroom, it’s how many people your own connections know that really mat…
Fast friends: even faster enemies. Power Players know this one by heart. That’s why they tread slowly when they decide somebody is complet…
There is never a more perilous time for the head of human resources (HR) than in the aftermath of an acquisition. That is when the risk is h…
Fidor Bank, the subject of my post last week, The German company reinventing banking, is an explosion of disruptive innovation that is attra…
Last week at a LeadingCompany roundtable I was surprised and shocked at the attitude towards banks by some of the owners of Australia’s larg…
Pressure on embattled Mirvac chairman James MacKenzie has eased after the company announced that incoming Mirvac CEO Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz cou…
