The entrepreneurship literature emphasizes the importance of imprints founders leave on companies; those imprints can change at transformational events such as the initial public offering (IPO). Prior research has found that objective measures (such as structure or...
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WEBINAR: AI and Beyond: The Strategic Challenges Facing HR Today
View Slides Two of the most respected voices in HR leadership - Susan Kelliher, former CHRO of Chemours, and Patrick McLaughlin, former CHRO of PepsiCo Foods North America had a candid, forward-looking conversation grounded in decades of experience leading world-class...
Hope Springs Eternal, But It is Still Not a Strategy
We started eePulse in 1996 to transform how companies use employee survey data and to commercialize the work I was doing on employee energy, which required a more frequent measurement process because it is the fluctuation of energy, not measurement at one point in...
Strategic Leadership is at a Crossroads
Today’s generation of senior executives developed their expertise, and advanced in their careers, in a world that looks very different from where we stand today. This article addresses how things have changed, where they stand today, and what leaders now need to do to enable successful strategy execution in 2025 and beyond.
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Millennials change jobs more than any other generation, study says
Alec Levenson, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations, was featured on Spectrum News 1 suggesting that short-term millennial high performers can significantly contribute to an organization, even if their eventual replacements are less...
Building capabilities and changing the organization
Executing a (new) strategy means two things. You have to build new capability required for the strategy. And the organization has to change from the old capability to the new. Capability building and change. Simple enough, and easy to say. So why do most strategy executions fail?
2023 Labor Day Update: Labor Market and Organizational Trends and Challenges
Commemorating Labor Day 2023, I take a look at some key trends and challenges that have emerged over the past 30 years.
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business’ Center for Effective Organizations and Ecolab Host the 2023 Strategic Employee Resource Group Leadership Summit
The University of Southern California Marshall School of Business’ Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) has announced a joint event with Ecolab, Inc., a global sustainability leader offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services, to explore the impact of employee resource groups (ERGs) on business innovation and growth.
How Does Your Garden Grow? The Interface of Employee and Sales Growth Post IPO
Article co-authored by Theresa Welbourne, CEO senior affliliated researcher.
New Leadership Challenges for the Virtual World of Work
During the COVID-19 crisis, senior leaders must rethink key decision-making processes in order to enhance trust, transparency, and teamwork.
Leading Transformation: The Role of HR Professionals in Power, Politics and Control Webinar
Leading Transformation: The Role of HR Professionals in Power, Politics and Control Webinar
with Paul Taffinder, Max Blumberg, and Alec Levenson
Executive Survey Highlights Gaps in Understanding of Drivers of Company Performance
LOS ANGELES – June 3, 2019 – The latest edition of the Leadership Pulse™ survey of 200 leaders from firms around the world suggests widespread misalignment between how the top executives view the drivers of their companies performance and what their direct reports are seeing.