New Career Paths and Skills for Aspiring CLOs

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Pat Galagan

Opportunities are blossoming at the top of the learning and development profession for people with a head for business, broad work experience, and the ability to integrate learning into everything important to a company. More »

Is Work Flexibility the Final Frontier for Women Execs?

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Pat Galagan

Inflexible work schedules and corporate cultures that honor long hours in the office keep many promising executives with family obligations out of top jobs. But a few companies are bucking that trend. More »

Why Innovation? Why Now?

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Pat Galagan

A young man we know recently made a career move some would find unthinkable. He left a software engineering job at Google to go to work for a little-known startup with few perks and no charisma to speak of. Among his reasons for making the switch was his sense that Goog... More »

What Worries CEOs Now?

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Pat Galagan

IBM's CEO Sam Palmisano sets the context this way: "In a very short time, we've become aware of global climate change; of the geopolitical issues surrounding energy and water supplies; of the vulnerabilities of supply chains for food, medicine, and even talent; and of s... More »

The Biggest Losers: The Perils of Extreme Downsizing

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Pat Galagan

Extreme downsizing is what management professor Wayne Cascio says companies engage in when they cut their workforce by more than 20 percent. To date, almost 40 percent of the United States's largest companies practiced extreme downsizing during the Great Recession. Down... More »