Month: August 2013

CEO Fail: The CIA CEO

Too many CEOs seem to believe they are in charge of an espionage operation instead of running a company. Having…

Grading the CEO

In my latest article for Forbes.com – How Do You Evaluate CEO Performance? 6 Ways To Grade The Chief – I discuss a scorecard I developed to help corporate boards objectively evaluate CEO performance. Boards can be one of a CEO’s few sources of direct feedback, but many board members do not know much about the CEO role or how to provide formal input. The scorecard categories correspond to the responsibilities of the CEO that I’ve discussed on this blog and provide a way for boards to give consistent, structured input to the CEO. Check out the article and let me know what you think.

Portrait of the CEO Class of 2012 (Infographic)

Here is a demographic breakdown of CEOs hired in 2012, from Booz & Company’s 2012 Chief Executive Study. Who are these leaders, according to the report? “For the most part, they are familiar faces: Companies promoted insiders (people already at the company) 71 percent of the time—and a quarter of all new leaders had worked at the same company for their whole career; 81 percent of new CEOs were from the same country where the company’s headquarters was located; and 95 percent were men.”

Booz & Co. CEO Infographic