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Selling Product without Selling Product
Issue: AXA's Soft Sell on Retirement
With MyRetirementShop.com, AXA chose to offer retirees and pre-retirees a portal focused on their lifestyle needs rather than product
Analysis: It's About Building Relationships
The smartest strategy is to understand the needs of your potential customers and to earn their trust
Comment: What Would You Do?
—Patricia O'Connell, Management Editor
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Headhunter Confidential: Joe McCool
Ferreting Out Fibs on the Résumé
It's crucial to put some really sharp questions to any executive you're about to hire, because even people at the highest levels don't always tell the truth
The Welch Way: Jack & Suzy Welch
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New Year's Resolutions for the Boardroom
After an unprecedented year in business, directors striving for better governance in '09 might want to adopt these three proposals
Boards Go Global
As U.S. markets slow and global revenues become more critical, boards are increasingly seeking directors with significant international know-how
Memo to the Board of AIG
AIG owes it to the taxpayers who gave them a $150 billion bailout to review its board, some of whose members are dangerously overstretched
Wal-Mart's New Sustainability Mandate in China
CEO Lee Scott has made it clear that Wal-Mart's China suppliers have to go green or else they will have to just go, period
Good Riddance to the Imperial CEO
When those in the C-suite assume a royal distance from those they lead, understanding, communication, and effectiveness all suffer
Why Traditional Recession Tactics Are Doomed to Fail This Time
Boardrooms need to recognize that the macro crisis requires decision makers to confront fundamental transformation on three levels, argues Umair Haque
Can Green Business Survive the Meltdown?
Here are some thoughts on what will change, what won't, and how to stay the course
Corporate Governance
Governing in a Recession
Fraud's Red Flags
Inside China's Boardrooms
Directors: Remember the Basics
To Compete, Boards Have to Go Global
Governance: The View from Both Sides
Bruce Freed: Boards Should Scrutinize Political Spending
Corporate Governance in China and India
Proxy Access: On to the Next Battle
Boards Behaving Badly
Board Talent Getting Scarcer
The Problems with Boards
Succession Planning
What If Someone Hires Your CEO?
Succession Planning: A Board Imperative
When Should CEOs Be Fired?
Emergency CEO Succession Planning
The Indispensable Succession Plan
McCormick's Successful Succession Plan
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An Embarrassment of Succession Fiascoes
Smoothing Out Succession
The Succession Opportunity
The Succession Timetable
Board Committees
The Changing Board
How to Become a Director
How to Get on a Board
Video: How to Get on a Board
How to Decide on a Board Seat Offer
What New Directors Need to Learn
CEO Compensation
Board Pay Still Rising
Q&A with Compensation Consultant Pearl Meyer
Bill George: Nonperforming CEOs
Paying Big-Time For Failure
Competitive Pay for Private Companies
The Elite Circle of $1 CEOs
Leadership Development
E-Tools That Help Teach Leadership
Define Your Personal Leadership Vision
Preparing Execs for Asia Assignments
Interactive Case Study: Jeff Immelt's Green Day
Leaders Need 'Just Enough Anxiety'
Leadership: It's All About Them
How to Be a C-Suite Churchill
People Do What People See
Leadership Is About Doing, Not Saying
Lessons from Harvard: Survival Guide for Leaders
It's Time to Pass the Ball
Why Leadership Means Listening
Strategy and Execution
Organizations Need Structure and Flexibility
Demonstrating the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Cut Costs Like Avon—Not Home Depot
When Your Company Outgrows Its Board
What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn't
Skilling's Appeal and Enron's Legacy
Why 'How' Matters More Than Ever
When the 'Silver Tsunami' Fails to Hit
Jim Champy: Outsmarting the Competition
A Green and Bumpy Road for CEOs
Interactive Case Study: Re-engineering Xerox
The Innovation Engine: The Upside of Recession
Doodling for Profits
How to Market in a Recession
Corporate Governance in China and India
What Can Microsoft Offer Yahoo?
What Went Wrong at Citi and Merrill
From Harvard Business: Recession 2008: Take the Offensive
Predictably Surprised in 2007—and 2008
Interactive Case Study: Jet Blue's Fare Decision
Google: A Druckerian Ideal?
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Demystifying Strategy: The What, Who, How, and Why
What’s Your Problem?
Viewpoint: SpencerStuart
A New Leadership Model for Financial Companies
The Wall Street crisis calls for the new financial-services firms to be run much like conglomerates and for executives with much greater depth and breadth of management skills
Viewpoint: Malcolm S. Salter
Skilling's Appeal and Enron's Legacy
Regardless of the outcome, which very well may be favorable to Skilling, the question remains: Why didn't Enron's board pay more attention?
The Drucker Difference: Rick Wartzman
No Magic Bullet for the Economic Crisis
Managers look for one simple strategy to handle these uncertain times, but Drucker was clear that a single answer is never the answer
Harvard Business Online
Why This Downturn Has a Green Lining
Aside from macro issues, delaying action on sustainability may be the absolute wrong thing for your business. Being far more efficient and effective with resources is a pillar of going green
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