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How Not to Build A Company Consider this one of our corporate governance articles. Reading about WeWork one can't help but wonder "Where were the adults in the room? Where was the Board?" Here is a partial list of WeWork's gaffes. WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neumann and the Board creating and approving a … Continue reading WeWork
CEO tenure is getting shorter and we believe a primary cause is less than optimal alignment between CEOs, Executive Team members and Corporate Boards. Alignment Scale Exercise On a scale of 1-10 (10 is best) where would you rate the level of alignment between yourself and your direct reports? Between yourself and your Board of Directors?You may … Continue reading CEO – Executive Team – Board (“CEB”) AlignmentPremium
Personality Analytics Holds the Key as to Why Apple Was More Innovative Under Steve Jobs than Tim Cook Apple has lost its creative mojo under Tim Cook. Incremental product enhancements have become the norm, replacing a time when revolutionary new products, space age design and landmark advertising was the standard. What changed? Look no further … Continue reading Steve Jobs vs. Tim Cook – Innovator vs. Operator – It’s In Their DNA
It is true. Your CEO’s personality influences his/her ability to scale (among other things). It may seem self-evident. One’s intuition may suggest such a relationship between personality traits and workplace effectiveness. Well, it is more than a hunch. Published research demonstrates a relationship between CEO personality traits and company performance. Gow, Kaplan, Larcker and Zakolyukina … Continue reading Your CEO’s Personality Influences His/Her Ability to ScalePremium
Transparent CEO Succession Plans Are Best Communicating CEO succession plans to institutional investors does not have to be complicated. Generally speaking, transparency around your CEO succession process is a good thing. This should not be confused with providing investors with a play-by-play update (I would not recommend the latter). Here’s a high-level outline that may … Continue reading How to Communicate CEO Succession Plans to InvestorsPremium
BlackRock (tkr: BLK) is going "activist" within the passive investment (i.e. index funds) side of their house. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the approach (we don't entirely agree with the social activist element nor the activist approach to passive funds) there is great merit to the idea of holding public company management … Continue reading Corporate Governance & Communicating Your Long-Term Strategy
We Have Entered an Unprecedented Era of Shareholder Tolerance It is interesting that corporate boards and institutional investors are willing to tolerate “Distracted CEOs” and founder CEOs who wish to exercise outsized control of the companies they founded. Both are examples of poor corporate governance. Our definition of a Distracted CEO is the CEO that … Continue reading Distracted CEOs and CEO Overreach
GE CEO John Flannery has his work cut out starting with re-vamping GE's Board. Our advice? 100% of GE's BoD members should have experience within the industry verticals GE cares about. Equally important - GE BoD members should consist of a mix of Insiders and Outsiders with the weighting in favor of Insiders. More detail … Continue reading GE’s Board Is A Mess
CEORater Podcast Episode 72: Equifax (EFX) Makes Our Blood Boil:
We at CEORater recently published a report analyzing executive compensation which you may access HERE (should you prefer the Excel version email us at: sales@ceorater.com). We take a unique approach in that we measure CEO compensation as a percentage of market cap. In the future it is likely that we will measure CEO compensation against … Continue reading CEO Compensation Analysis: “Comp-to-Cap”
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