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Simply put, happy employees perform better. Studies have shown that increased employee well-being results in increased performance and productivity for employees’ companies or organizations, along with positive benefits for the individual employees. It’s a win-win, if the company knows how to unleash this powerful competitive advantage. Competitive advantage can be...

Whether you're serving as a CEO, CFO, CIO, CMO, or CTO, you know that we're all monstrously self-centered. So, if you don’t feel anyone is appreciating you,  ask yourself this simple question,  are you appreciating others. umm. Have you heard? "Employee Appreciation Day" - March 7th. We’ve all felt "underappreciated"...

After several months of hunting for a new executive, extending an offer and closing the deal, your new leader will soon be joining you. If you think your job is done and it’s time to move on to the next project, think again. CEOWORLD MAGAZINE recently spoke with author, executive...

When it comes to getting a job after you graduate, it is interesting that there is a big disconnect between the perception of business schools and employers. Recent surveys from Gallup and Inside Higher Ed's 2014 suggest that almost all (ninety-six percent) university administrators, college presidents, and chief academic officers ...

When planning your recruiting efforts, there are a number of things you can do that can help you attract just the right applicants for the interview. There seems to be a major disconnect between what a job description lays out and what matters to prospective candidates. If job description is...

A few years ago one of my companies signed on a big client that I was really excited about. Even though I was very confident in the team I assigned to this business, I still insisted on being very hands-on in their management. I am always so committed to excellence...

Beyond the most well-known female at the top of technology companies, Meg Whitman, the president and chief executive officer of PC giant Hewlett Packard (HP), Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer, Virginia Rometty CEO at IBM, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg --- Does technology sector welcome women? According to the...

The days of exclusively recruiting and rearing internal talent are over; just six percent of respondents said their organizations have no senior-level executives from outside of their own organizations. The average senior executive team is made up of internal candidates (45 percent), external candidates (38 percent) and executives from another...

When asked about their organization’s preparedness to replace key leaders, the survey uncovered a surprising dichotomy. Almost six in 10 respondents said their company had a succession plan in place, but 80 percent said their company would need at least a year to replace them if they were to leave....

Last year saw a big rise of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and cloud-based tech companies, and 45 of them went public on Wall Street – including well-known startups like Marketo, RetailMeNot and Zulily – the third highest number of IPOs in one year, since the dot-com era. Even more surprising is that...