How the Public’s Vote Counts in CEO Reputation
The Reputation Institute (RI) has built an entire franchise around how the reputation of the world’s largest companies are perceived by consumers around the world. When RI was asked to take a look at...
View ArticleCEO Fears
I always wonder what makes CEOs scared. Who wouldn’t? The impression they give is that they are always up to the task. This research from Vantage Hill Partners just appeared in HBR‘s weekly bulletin...
View ArticleSTANDING UP TO STAND OUT: THE NEW CEO IMPERATIVE
[Portions of this appeared on the HBR blog] CEO reputation is in need of yet another upgrade: let’s call it CEO Version 7.0. We started out at the turn of the last century with the Industrialist CEO,...
View ArticleA good day
So pleased that HBR posted what I wrote about our new gender equality survey. Please go check it out. Link is below. Made my day. When the Media Covers Gender Inequality, the C-Suite Listens The post A...
View ArticlePage One
I judge my own reputation oftentimes by where my work on reputation shows up in Google. As we say, Google is not a search engine but a reputation management system. As the holiday weekend is ending, I...
View ArticleHumble leadership works
Paul Holmes sent out this roundup on corporate reputation trends for 2016 which includes our research on the importance of managing your company’s CEO reputation premium. It cites our research on one...
View ArticleRisks and Rewards of CEO Activism
We just released new research with KRC Research on CEO activism and I want to share some of the findings here. I also wrote a piece in Harvard Business Review that you might find interesting. As a...
View ArticleCMO Reputation Defended
A few weeks ago, I noticed this headline in Advertising Age, Why are CMOs Dropping like Flies? It is not the first time I have seen a headline like this which focuses on the short tenure of CMOs and...
View ArticleCEO activism plusses and minuses
Here are three recent pieces reflecting on CEO activism since the president’s executive order on immigration. One I wrote for HBR and the other two are full of compelling arguments about whether CEOs...
View ArticleCEO Activism: What We Have Learned So Far in 2017
I wanted to share this piece I wrote for Harvard Business Review on what we have learned about CEO and corporate activism so far. We’ve been consistently monitoring the dynamic of CEOs speaking out on...
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