For Executive Women Seeking C-Suite Success
What do these people have in common? Marissa Mayer – Yahoo Meg Whitman – Hewlett-Packard Patricia Woertz – Archer Daniels Midland Indra Nooyi – PepsiCo Pam Nicholson – Enterprise Holdings They’re all women, of course. And they’re also all CEOs. Beyond that they’re very different, except for one important thing: Once they were in a situation just like the one you’re in now. At some point in their career, each of those successful women had to decide if she wanted to commit herself to the time and effort to rise to the C-Suite. It’s a big...
Read MoreTime Management: It’s More Than Avoiding the Urgent
There are probably very good reasons why the time management system that contrasts the important/unimportant and urgent/not urgent is the most popular. For one thing, it can be simple and easily understood. Like so many management models, it can be explained in a simple two-by-two fashion. Another reason the model is popular is that managers have found that it helps them to establish their priorities and, as a result, to get more done. Even when things are ticking over as they should, there never seems to be enough time to do what’s important, never mind anything else. A third reason may...
Read MoreWhy are there so few women in top leadership roles?
Why are there so few women in top leadership roles? We’ve been working on this issue for a very long time and we’ve made some progress, but not at the top. Women college graduates outnumber men in the United States. About a third of fulltime MBA students are women. Women hold nearly 40 percent of managerial positions. But when we look at the C-Suite, the situation is very different. Women only hold about nine percent of top leadership positions. Only about four percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. People come at this issue in several different ways. You may think of it...
Read MoreWhy People Hate Performance Appraisals
Suppose you had a service that, with subtle variations, was offered by nearly all of your competitors. And suppose that despite your best efforts, only five-percent of your customers were satisfied with the results that got from using it. Would you continue to offer it just because your competitors did? Those statistics are not about any particular service. They were actually taken from a study done on the use and effectiveness of performance appraisals. And if truth be told, these evaluations probably cause more angst than any other in organizations. In addition, they are ineffective...
Read MoreClosing the management skills gap
The headline on the Forbes article says it all: “CEOs are Terrible at Management, Study Finds.” Here’s a quote that sums up the headline. “The researchers say that CEOs need to reach beyond numbers and care about people management. Two other statistics from the survey that underline how disengaged CEOs are from concern about employees: When asked about their CEOs’ greatest strengths, 70% rated ‘decision-making skills’ at the top. At the bottom: 27% said ‘compassion/empathy,’ 23% said ‘mentoring skills/developing internal...
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