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4th quarter 2011
welcome to leadership matters Dear Readers, This edition of Leadership Matters brings to a close a turbulent year for both the Australian and global economies. Notwithstanding the economic challenges for Europe and the United States, the fundamentals for Australia and Asia remain strong. We continue to see good demand for executive talent in the mining, infrastructure and energy sectors as well as our newly developed Higher Education and Leadership Practices. We hope you enjoy reading the enclosed articles in our final Leadership Matters for 2011 and would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very enjoyable festive season and a safe, healthy and prosperous year ahead. Kind regards, Allan Marks and Stephen Lennard. |
Persistence Is Best Predictor of CEO SuccessThe death of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s Steve Jobs has brought a lot of talk about the characteristics of the ideal chief executive officer.
One school of thought holds that successful CEOs are team players, good listeners and humble. In the book “Good to Great,” Jim Collins called such people... By Steven N. Kaplan Oct 27, 2011. Source: Bloomberg |
Closing the gapWomen have made huge progress in the workplace, but still get lower pay and far fewer top jobs than men. Barbara Beck asks why.
WHEN HILDA SOLIS was at high school, a male career adviser told her mother that the girl was not college material; she should consider becoming a secretary. Hilda was furious. One of seven children born to working-class immigrant parents, she had high... Nov 26th 2011 | The Economist |
How strategic is our technology agenda?CEOs should shake up the technology debate to ensure that they capture the upside of technology-driven threats. Here’s how.
The CEO of a leading consumer goods company was unhappy with his CIO. An important competitor was gaining market share at a disquieting pace by using social media and data analysis...
OCTOBER 2011 • Brad Brown and Johnson Sikes |
ONLINE ANNUAL MEETINGS BEGIN TO CLICKNo investors raised their hands to grill the top brass during this year's annual meeting at Herman Miller Inc., nor buttonholed board members after it ended.
That's because the October 10 session occurred solely in cyberspace—for the fifth straight year. The furniture maker stopped holding its annual meetings... BY JOANN S. LUBLIN. Source: The Wall Street Journal, November14th 2011. |
The second economyDigitization is creating a second economy that’s vast, automatic, and invisible—thereby bringing the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution.
In 1850, a decade before the Civil War, the United States’ economy was small—it wasn’t much bigger than Italy’s. Forty years later, it was the largest economy in the world. What happened in-between was... OCTOBER 2011 • W. Brian Arthur. Source: McKinsey Quarterly |
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