Human Capital Briefs

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. I'm not joining in. He's doing God's work. Or at least the market's.

Transformationally speaking, technological innovation is easy. Culture change is not. Jeff Bezos knows this. If he wants to kindle his newly-acquired Washington Post into Amazon Prime, he's free to do so.

An interview with Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell, authors of the article Dysfunction in the Boardroom.

Uncertainty becomes increasingly dangerous when we rush to understand it with an over-reliance on what we've witnessed before. The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 are a tragic example of this.

Do challenges and opportunities that once took days or weeks to fully emerge now smack you in the face before lunch and without much discernible warning? If so, you're not alone.

Highly narcissistic CEOs were nearly 3 times more likely than very un-narcissistic leaders to take bold steps to embrace potentially disruptive technologies when media interest in the disruption was high. But when interest was low, the narcissistic CEOs showed no such heightened propensity to act.

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. But attaining one is far from easy. No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats.

New research by RHR international shows which executives incoming CEOs are likely to replace, and highlights some differences between first-time CEOs and more seasoned chief executives. I interviewed Dr. David Astorino, Global Practice Leader for Senior Team Effectiveness, about the findings.

I’ve been waiting for the results from a study that Professor Mak Yuen Teen, Associate Professor at NUS Business School, and I have been undertaking. We thought it would produce some interesting insights to share with the HR profession – and it did!