The Idea in Brief It's a popular approach to ensuring a smooth leadership transition: Hire a second-in-command who is designated as the next CEO. But the practice rarely works — of would-be CEO successors hired externally, 75% don't become chief executives...
Looking for advice? Dan Ciampa, in Taking Advice: How Leaders Get Good Counsel and Use It Wisely (Harvard Business School Press, www.hbsp.harvard.edu) suggests three steps to obtaining the best advice possible: 1. Be clear about when you can't solve a problem alone. 2. Figure out what type...
The decisions new CEOs make during their first few months on the job have a decisive impact on whether they ultimately succeed or fail. The transition period is a time of opportunity, but also great vulnerability, especially when new leaders are expected to change their organizations in fundamental ways. CEOs...
A successful reign or a dismal flop? Your first 100 days can set the course for your entire tenure as CEO. The decisions new CEOs make during their first few months on the job have a decisive impact on whether they ultimately succeed or fail. The transition...
The decisions new CEOs make during their first few months on the job have a decisive impact on whether they ultimately succeed or fail. The transition period is a time of opportunity, but also great vulnerability, especially when new leaders are expected to change their organizations...
Taking Advice: How Leaders Get Good Counsel and Use It Wisely by Dan Ciampa, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass., 2006, 197 pp. with index, $26.95 hardcover School leaders frequently receive advice, but do we know how to use it to the best benefit? Dan Ciampa uses his...
Taking Advice: How Leaders Get Good Counsel and Use It Wisely By Dan Ciampa (Harvard Business School Press, September 2006, $26.95) Stubbornness is not a genetic trait inherited by all managers, yet many employees may wonder why their bosses can be so inflexible. In his book, Ciampa dissects many...
Taking Advice: How Leaders Get Good Counsel and Use It Wisely. By Dan Ciampa. Harvard Business School Press, 199 pages. $26.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Most corporate leaders get regular dollops of advice from a variety of sources but...
Harvard Press's newest offering is a little jewel indeed. Written by Dan Ciampa, Taking Advice is a roadmap of sorts for effective corporate communications; but this little book is also a lot more, and it packs a big punch. The book's main point is to argue that corporate...
Right From the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role By Dan Ciampa and Michael Watkins Harvard Business School Press, $57.95 Right From the Start is a follow-up to Watkins' impressive The First 90 Days and, like that book, provides practical advice mixed with theoretical insight. It underlines...
CEO churn is at an all time high. Increasingly, new CEOs enter a company, fail to deliver and are sent packing. Sometimes, if they do produce results, other companies snatch them up. Either way, the process starts all over again. Turnover among chief executives soared...
REUNION COORDINATORS: To publicize your unit's reunion, fill out the form on page 40 of the February 2002 VFW magazine or print out a form from VFW's website: http://www.vfw.org/magazine/51.shtml. Send to VFW magazine, 406 W. 34th St., Suite 523, Kansas City, MO 64111. Please note that improperly...
GREENWICH, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 12, 1997--NAC Re Corp. (NYSE:NRC) is pleased to announce the election of Dan Ciampa to the board of directors. Ciampa, a resident of Weston, Massachusetts, is currently an independent management consultant advising senior executives in a select number...
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