Thomas Keil

Thomas Keil

Thomas Keil is an internationally recognized authority on CEO topics and professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland where he teaches strategy and international management. His research focuses on the CEO agenda in multinational corporations, specifically CEO succession, strategic renewal and transformation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate entrepreneurship and innovation. He has been published in leading journals, including the Harvard Business Review and the MIT Sloan Management Review. He is also co-author, with Marianna Zangrillo, of new book, The Next CEO: Board and CEO Perspectives for Successful CEO Succession published by Routledge, priced $38.95, available from Amazon and other leading booksellers.


Thomas Keil is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn.
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How CEO leadership style can change a company

Extensive research has shown that the characteristics of CEOs can have a large impact on the life and performance of an organization. For better or worse, an organization eventually starts to resemble the leader at the top and adopt their leadership style. While all CEOs are very successful and experienced...