In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. Human Resources. A client in need of innovation? One of my mentors was brilliantly creative, the other skillfully strategic.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 15, 2012

Prudent 21 st century CEOs will not only stick-handle through the environment of the day; they will incisively pinpoint, and fervently leverage the critical success factors of the company and industry in which they operate. To be unaware of, or to discount changing environments would be a leadership mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The (far) more interesting counterfactual would have been a leaked memo declaring that telecommuters and virtual teams were — by far — the most agile, innovative and productive performers at Yahoo. Why would Mayer minimize what she had experienced as a critical success factor?

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Critical Success Factor CEO Agility Productivity 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

As a critical success factor, strategy turned into a lucrative industry for a host of consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company , and the Boston Consulting Group. The truth is that one success factor needs other success factors to be effective. Most leaders and managers know this.

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Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100