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How To Revamp Executive Comp for Tough Times: The downturn has thrown the status quo for executive compensation out the window and thrust pay packages under the microscope. [more]
Benefit and Compensation Plans Around the World: For companies that operate on a global scale, fine-tuning benefits and compensation design can be a daunting challenge; here's some help from Mercer. [more]
Six Sigma for Breakthrough Leadership: The renowned business performance management system can be used to drive defects out of a product line, overhaul a complex business process, or utterly revolutionize an enterprise. [more]
4 Guiding Principles for Successful Leaders -- and Companies: Many great leaders don't build successful organizations, according to this article by Bain consultants Mark Gottfredson and Steve Schaubert and nonprofit leader Elisabeth Babcock. [more]
What Drives Women Leaders?: The McKinsey Leadership Project interviewed 85 successful women leaders in diverse fields around the world to learn what drives and sustains them and to help organizations get the best out of this talented group. [more]
Developing Leaders in China: This case study describes how Agilent Technologies employed rigorous metrics to assess the leadership capabilities of managers in its operations in China. [more]
Experienced New Hires May Not Be Successful: Companies often seek to hire skilled, experienced workers with a track record in the same industry, but this report proves that this strategy may not always work best. [more]
Business Leaders Are Transforming Social Enterprises: A new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while demanding more transparency and accountability from the organizations they are funding. [more]
How a CEO Slows Down To Improve Business: The CEO of insurance brokerage Dawson Cos., who works out of the firm's Naples, Fla., office, describes in this article how he uses "Zen management" to build strong relationships with staff members in Ohio who suffer through winter's chill. [more]
Want More Profits? Hire More Women: Well, it might not be quite that simple -- there are only preliminary
indications of a causal link -- but evidence is mounting that companies with
higher numbers of women at senior levels outperform their peers. [more]
Salaries Will Shrug Off Economic Woes: Though the economy remains anemic, salaries won't take a hit next year, according to a new report from Hewitt Associates. [more]
Employers Ponder Health-Care Options: With another year of stiff health-care premium increases looking likely for 2009, companies are casting about for alternatives to the well worn cost-shifting strategy. [more]
Downturn Won't Dent Medical Inflation: Cost increases will be stiff again next year, consumer-driven health-care plans are having minimal effect, and the cost-shifting strategy is played out. [more]
Where Procurement Stands Now: Faced with the ongoing challenges of globalization and corporate responsibility -- not to mention the effects of the economic slowdown in North America -- procurement professionals have their work cut out for them. [more]
Employee Retention on the Back Burner: Major layoffs seem like a daily occurrence as companies whittle away at costs in response to economic times that get scarier every day. [more]
Cost of Employee Misunderstanding: $37 Billion: Everyone makes mistakes, but some errors are bigger than others -- and the big ones can be costly indeed. [more]
The Dangers of Leading by Ego: A healthy ego is critical in good leadership but executives who lead by ego risk missteps that can derail the organization, as this article illustrates through examples in government and business. [more]
Learn to Love the Pressure: In business, as in sports, the biggest obstacle to achieving the seemingly impossible may be a self-limiting mind-set, according to a sports psychologist who has coached Olympic athletes. [more]
Leading the Way in China: Companies that are ramping up operations in China face a big challenge in hiring local talent as they learn their way around cultural complexities. [more]
How Top Companies Build Better Leaders: Fortune Magazine's list of the top 20 global companies for leadership includes household names like General Electric and Proctor & Gamble as well as lesser-known companies such as Natura Cosmeticos and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. [more]