Articles about the book:
The CEO's New Clothes
Forget autocrats and visionaries. Farsighted, tolerant, humane CEOs aren't just nice to work for. They deliver nice results, too.
From: Issue 98 | September 2005 | Page 27 | By: Linda Tischler
Management style. It sounds like a GQ headline for a feature on Zegna suits. But wander the lushly carpeted halls of America's boardrooms, executive suites, and headhunters' offices, or peruse pointyheaded workplace journals, and you'll find "management style" on everyone's lips.Why? Consider the failed CEO class of 2005. Most of them didn't do anything to draw Eliot Spitzer's gimlet eye. Morgan Stanley's Philip Purcell, Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina, and Disney's Michael Eisner, to name a few, were put out to the curb by their boards ostensibly because of failed strategies, shareholder lawsuits, and missed earnings. Look deeper, though, and you'll see that it was really their management styles that tripped them up. Continue reading...
Exploring the Ways World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and PurposeWe are seeing the end of business as usual, asserts Jagdish Sheth, a professor of marketing and corporate strategy at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Some innovative companies are expanding the goals of traditional corporations. Concerned about more than just profits, these organizations are striving to meet the needs of all their stakeholders: employees, suppliers and neighbors, as well as investors.
In an upcoming book, Sheth and his co-authors (Raj Sisodia and David Wolfe) call these companies Firms of Endearment (FoEs). People who work with, buy from, invest in, or live near these companies “feel safe, secure, and pleased in their dealings” because these companies do not put the interests of one stakeholder group ahead of others’. Continue reading here...
