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The key qualifications for a CEO

January 11, 2015

Leadership: More important than "industry experience" [...]

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A heart-warming family business story…..

September 7, 2014

In January 1987, just 5 months into my career, I received my first turnaround referral from the Special [...]

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Acceptable or unacceptable, that is the question!

July 13, 2014

July 3, 2014,  BloombergBusinessWeek: Hospitals Are Mining Credit Card Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick. The article is accompanied [...]

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CNN interviews Morris Feinberg

June 17, 2014

A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to [...]

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Open Table + Renee’s Rules™

June 13, 2014

Unless you were asleep today, you know that Priceline is acquiring Open Table.  My main concern about the acquisition is [...]

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Reference checks 101

May 1, 2014

The following questions are too often missing from lists of questions to ask when checking references for prospective management employees: [...]

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The job of the board of directors

March 9, 2014

According to Rick Miller, the role of the corporate director is to be "strategically engaged; operationally distant." [...]

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The merger of biology and technology: Intelligence, Mondays, on CBS

March 5, 2014

It was stunning to see that the 2/17/14 episode of the TV show, Intelligence, actually included the topic of “the [...]

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Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger: Good for public?

February 17, 2014

Joel Maxcy says the Comcast-Time Warner merger is bad for the public. [...]

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Gender diversity: McKinsey Global Survey results

February 16, 2014

McKinsey's global survey on gender diversity highlight differences between the perceptions of men and women. [...]

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