February 27, 2008

How to be a great CEO? 8 tips

John Deere. eBay. Johnson & Johnson. Disparate companies with one critical element in common: leaders who know how to create a sense of loyalty and passion in their employees. In other words, leaders who know how to inspire workers to go the extra mile.

Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, examines how the most successful leaders do this in his study "The Emotionally Bonded Organization: Why Emotional Infrastructure Matters and How Leaders Can Build It." (It has yet to be published.)

John Deere. eBay. Johnson & Johnson. Disparate companies with one critical element in common: leaders who know how to create a sense of loyalty and passion in their employees. In other words, leaders who know how to inspire workers to go the extra mile.

Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, examines how the most successful leaders do this in his study "The Emotionally Bonded Organization: Why Emotional Infrastructure Matters and How Leaders Can Build It." (It has yet to be published.)

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