Tag Archives: Work and Employment Research Centre

Shock Discovery – Middle Managers Drive Organizational Performance

By Blair Stevenson | June 8, 2011

Contrary to media stories that suggest CEO’s are the key to organizational success, the impact of CEOs, CFOs and other top-level executives on large firms is extremely limited. In fact, these top positions explain less than 5% of the variation in firm performance amongst Fortune 800 companies. Of course, senior leaders set the strategic direction [...]

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What’s an Effective Leader?

By Blair Stevenson | November 23, 2010

My definition of an effective leader is a people manager (ie.first and mid-level) who inspires commitment, grows employee engagement and work motivation, confronts non-performance and maximises employee performance.

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