CEO March 2011

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Why Executives Fail By Patrick Dailey All too frequently, an exceptional executive encounters a corporate trapdoor, falls and then derails. Executives knowingly or unknowingly step into a critical situation in which their savvy... > read more

The Third Wave of Sustainability and Green Growth By Dr Paul Pritchard Once little more than a CSR issue, sustainability has developed rapidly to generate real business cost savings. Jan Chmiel and Martin Baxter of IEMA, Dr Paul Pritchard of RSA and Jonathan...

Two Can Play That Game By Enrico Preziosi Most companies have one chief executive officer who guides strategy and leads the management team. But this is by no means the only model for success. Jim Banks speaks to Enrico...

20 questions – Kevin Roberts, Saatchi & Saatchi By Kevin Roberts Kevin Roberts is one of advertising's leading luminaries. A creative whirlwind, Saatchi & Saatchi's globetrotting CEO has steered the ad agency from one success to the next, injected...

The Future's Electric By Dieter Zetsche After losses of over €2bn in 2009, Dieter Zetsche guided Daimler to earnings of over €7bn the year after. Now the CEO has conquering China and the development of the 'car of the...

Shifting Strategy By Pier Luigi Sigismondi To fully energise a company's supply chain, the function has to be about more than streamlining and savings. Unilever's Pier Luigi Sigismondi talks to Phin Foster about making the transition...

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More than ever, CEOs are under intense scrutiny not only to be transparent, but also entirely visible in their efforts to project a sense of humanity that eclipses bottom-line ambitions....

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Backbone of the Business
By Francesco Gori Pirelli Tyre CEO Francesco Gori explains why he views the supply chain as the 'backbone' of the...

Switched On
By Bracken Darrell This year, Whirlpool Corporation celebrates its 100th year in the household appliances business. Bracken Darrell, president of Whirlpool EMEA, talks to Rod James about its unique...

The Foundations of Innovation
By Haider Rashid The pressing desire to couple cost reduction with cutting-edge innovation is not easy to satisfy. This challenge is only exacerbated when the company in question is a global player with...

The IT Imperative
By Silvio Sperzani For top-performing organisations to work at peak capacity CIOs need to understand the strategic aims of the business. CEOs, meanwhile, must comprehend IT to ensure that approved projects are...

Turn of the Seasons
By Kathleen Taylor Kathleen Taylor is the president and CEO of Four Seasons. In an exclusive interview she talks to Christopher Kanal about the challenge of being in control of the world's most luxurious...

Where are the Opportunities Now?
A bruised and chastened business and financial world is returning with gathering pace to overseas investing. Nigel Ash asks how the opportunities have changed following a period when much of...