Omnitracs, a technology company that provides innovative software and SaaS fleet management solutions to trucks, recently suffered from connectivity issues that directly affected their electronic logging devices (ELDs). As a result, drivers were required to use paper logs to record compliance with hours-of-service regulations. Read more
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Lessons From the Year’s Worst CEOs
Dartmouth College Business Professor Sydney Finkelstein’s 2013 annual rating of the worst CEOs is illuminating on several fronts.
Turnarounds of ailing companies are high-risk propositions for Chief Executives. Whether it’s making the wrong moves like J.C.
Projecting Leadership in 2013: A Communications Challenge
We would bet that a New Year’s resolution for any senior executive is to be a better leader in 2013. A recent survey by the Center for Talent Innovation provides some hard research that the measure of leadership is more than the results from on-the-job performance – it’s also the appearance of leadership, or what can be called “Executive Presence.” Read more
LEADERS COMMUNICATING INTEGRITY NATURALLY
A recent column in the New York Times caught our eye regarding people who communicate with integrity and authority. It was a powerful interview with James Hackett, President and CEO of global office furniture maker Steelcase. Read more
CEO Achilles Heels: The Plain Vanilla
Murdoch’s Achilles Heel
Rupert Murdoch juggernaut hits speed bumps
The decision by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to abandon its bid for full control of British Sky Broadcasting comes in the wake of the scandal that caused the shuttering of The News of the World. Read more
CommCore’s Pick of the Top 5 Crises of 2010
The CommCore list of top Crises for 2010 has a few of the obvious candidates, plus one or two that represent a certain type of crisis vs. the biggest news or blog splash.
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2010: CEOs More Confident, But Still Blundering
Recently, Forbes published a list of the top ten CEO screw-ups for 2010. It confirms what most of us expected to see, but there were a few that stood out.
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Assessing Mr. Toyoda’s Role Through the Ongoing Recall Crisis at Toyota
As the recall at Toyota turns from a crisis to a long term saga that impacts the company’s reputation, the company is finally doing many of the right things and trying to avoid missteps. Read more