The nation’s largest employer is retooling its people strategy for the digital age as it goes head to head with its biggest competitor, Amazon. Depending on your perspective, the word “disruption” has either negative or positive connotations. If you’re new to an industry, disruption can be...
Larry Fink, Chief Executive of $5.7 trillion dollar investor Blackrock recently wrote a follow up to his widely circulated 2016 letter to CEOs. He emphasizes several key themes: Companies should expect increased involvement from long term investors (Blackrock is doubling their investment stewardship team) Company...
By Steve Odland Berkshire Hathaway’s recent, highly public move to appoint two internal executives to serve on the company’s board as vice chairs – one of which will be CEO Warren Buffett’s heir apparent– reminds us that process is important when it comes to CEO succession...
Sean Kimble, who hosted our meeting our meeting in Austin, Tx. and his CEO Eric Long who spoke to us have been busy. They recently completed an acquisition valued at $1.8b. Congratulations to Sean and Eric for the work that has been done and the...
Enlightened Leadership (From the Robin Report) James M. Damian Here we are at the end of 2017 still talking about diversity, gender parity, equitable compensation and developing an integrated workforce that reflects our customers. In an increasingly divisive national (and international) conversation, the issues we face...
Published by Jill Griffin National Association of Corporate Directors Jill Griffin When former Zale Corp. CEO Theo Killion shared his leadership lessons of turning around Zales at a recent NACD TriCities Chapter program in Austin, Texas, it jogged some childhood retail memories for me. Growing up in the 1960’s,...
Women Matter: Time to accelerate Ten years of insights into gender diversity October 2017 Download Report...
[caption id="attachment_17996" align="alignleft" width="214"] Tamara Bray[/caption] Tamara Bray is Group Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for DCP Midstream, “one of the largest producers of NGLs and one of the largest natural gas processing companies in the U.S.” DCP gathers and/or processes about 12% of our nation's...
Over a 10 year period, management assessment group ghSmart assessed 17,000 C-suite executives including 2,000 CEOs to answer the following question, “What sets successful CEOS apart?” The answers, which were published in a recent Harvard Business Review, may surprise you. Download Article here ...
By cultivating a culture of servant leadership, chief human resources officer Michael Keane hopes to bring about P.F. Chang’s 2.0 Download Article here ...