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We asked 107 Chief Digital Officer to share their experience as first-generation CDOs.
Ed Schein, MIT Professor emeritus and social scientist, explains why we should forget everything we’ve been taught about leadership – and focus on getting to know each other.
This year’s Leaders & Daughter's Theme – Power Moves: A New Generation of Women Transforms Leadership – addresses how emerging generations sees the world differently. As older generations leaves the workforce, how will this shift in power and perspective reshape organizations?
We first began writing to our daughters last year as part of Egon Zehnder’s Leaders & Daughters event series. We have received 160+ letters, with leaders including Judy Woodruff, Egon Zehnder Chairwoman Jill Ader, and others.
Egon Zehnder's 2018 Global Board Diversity Tracker captures fourteen years of data on the world’s largest companies to see how much progress has actually been made on board diversity.
Egon Zehnder asked over 400 of the world’s top CEOs what it means to be an effective leader today
Corporate leadership development programs aren’t working. Less than a quarter of executives at the organizations that have them think they’re effective. Evaluations of managers at thousands of corporations suggest that 72% have what it takes to grow into C-suite roles. How can we bridge the gap between this raw talent and executive success?
Onboarding is an apt term for how many companies support new leaders’ transitions, because – like helping someone onto a ship – there’s not much more to the process than bringing the executive safely on deck. From there on, he or she is expected to know what to do or sort it out with little or no guidance.
Paul Polman, who just stepped down as Unilever’s CEO, sat down with Egon Zehnder's Dominique Laffy to explain his take on how businesses should handle social responsibility and accountability.
Humility is a top requirement for the emerging workforce. Karl Alleman shares how both individuals and organizations can tap its potential in his latest piece for Fast Company.
What is a Chief Digital Officer? In Forbes, Lindsay Trout talks about our CDO Decoded research and how this new member of the C-Suite leads digital transformation.
Egon Zehnder’s Kristi Maynor discusses which C-Suite role exhibits key leadership factors most closely to the CEO.
To effectively execute your ambitious business goals, you need a Human Capital Strategy. Benito Cachinero shares four pillars of building this strategy in his latest piece for IESE Insight.
Sarah Van Dyck joins the Safe for Work podcast to discuss how to ask for what you really want out of a job.
Egon Zehnder's Pallavi Kathuria discusses the shift in why organizations are looking for ethical and humble leaders.
A group of women directors of industrial boards share advice for how boards should think about hiring.
The telecom industry has undergone a massive digital transformation and will continue to evolve as new technologies emerge and digital executives drive new business strategies. Chief Digital Officers, Chief Innovation Officers, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers and other digital executives are playing prominent roles within organizations, but many of these executives face significant challenges in these new roles.
Zaki Fasihuddin, CEO of Volvo Cars Ventures and former digital executive at McDonald's, discusses what it really means to transform global corporations for the digital world.
Investors are continuing their push for board diversity in the 2019 proxy season that was set into motion two years ago. Drawing on the energy from events, such as BlackRock’s letter to CEOs, demanding meaningful change in board composition, more investors are becoming vocal and more definitive about what constitutes boardroom diversity.
Strategy consultant and author Peter Schein, co-author of “Humble Leadership” which he wrote together with his father Ed Schein, on psychological safety, matrix leadership, and how human-digital interaction could work in the future.
Ed Schein, MIT Professor emeritus and the father of organizational development, explains why we should forget everything we’ve been taught about leadership – and focus on getting to know each other.
As food industry leaders continue to understand the power and potential of personalized nutrition, they are challenged with bringing together two very distinct and often unique skill sets required to successfully navigate this industry movement: scientific expertise and marketing prowess.
Paul Polman, who just stepped down as Unilever’s CEO, sat down with Egon Zehnder's Dominique Laffy to explain his take on how businesses should handle social responsibility and accountability.
While companies expect their CTOs to have a PhD, they often make the mistake of trying to develop a scientist into a business person. Learn what talent models may work best for this role.
Insurance Technology, or “Insurtech,” is reshaping the conservative insurance industry. With rapid growth and increasing investments, innovation in this sector IS changing how the insurance industry operates.
What is a Chief Digital Officer? In Forbes, Lindsay Trout talks about our CDO Decoded research and how this new member of the C-Suite leads digital transformation.
Karim Jalbout discussed “Leading Through Change” with two upcoming tech leaders at CogX 2019.
As part of Egon Zehnder's global survey, Lindsay Trout spoke with Macerich EVP & CDO Kevin McKenzie for his personal take on what it means being a Chief Digital Officer today.
As part of Egon Zehnder's global survey, "CDO Decoded: The First Wave of Chief Digital Officers Speaks", Lindsay Trout, Egon Zehnder's Digital Practice Leader, and Laura Merling, Digital Strategic Advisor formerly at AT&T and Ford, discuss what it means to be a Chief Digital Officer today.
Global In-House Centers (GICs) are no longer just a repository for internal IT or operations functions. Today, GCCs not only drive process and productivity improvements for global corporations, but they also create new capabilities, lead cross-functional efforts, and bring new product and service offerings to the market based on innovations borne at these centers.
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Humility is a top requirement for the emerging workforce. Karl Alleman shares how both individuals and organizations can tap its potential in his latest piece for Fast Company.
Egon Zehnder’s Kristi Maynor discusses which C-Suite role exhibits key leadership factors most closely to the CEO.
Despite the rise of big data, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, human resources is still waiting for its revolution.
Large-scale transformation in the telecommunications industry requires leaders who understand technology with a proven ability to transform organizations – a rare find.
Amidst eroding margins and predatory competition, legacy business models are under pressure – and so are industry leaders.
According to our own internal research, professionals between the ages of 45-60 leaving the consumer industry have surged from 30 percent between 1991-2000 to 50 percent between 2000 and 2019. This means one out of every two senior leaders in the consumer industry has undergone a career transition in the nine years.
Personalized nutrition will fundamentally reshape the agrifood industry. How do organizations need to prepare – and develop – their leaders for success?
Hong Kong and China's most successful business leaders gathered to answer the question: Will we be marginalized by the disruptions of technology and the phenomenal growth of the rest of China—or will we embrace this chance to reinvent ourselves?
Egon Zehnder is committed to transforming the leaders of today into the great leaders of tomorrow.
As companies harness technology and data to transform into more agile organizations, they must also transform their cultures to support this operating shift. It is nearly impossible to engage in any type of corporate transformation without taking culture into account. Much of the heavy lift in this culture shift rests on the shoulders of the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO).