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BSG LEADERSHIP PULSE editions

(reverse chronological order)

1. MAY 2023 - BSG Leadership Pulse | Is work ethic redundant? Find out which C-Suite skills matter most and more...
   • Work ethic may be redundant
   • Job Satisfaction 2023 - The Conference Board
   • The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most
2. APRIL 2023 - BSG Leadership Pulse | CEO turnover at record pace, remote work crushing next gen of workers, and more...
   • CEO turnover highest quarter since Q1 2020, and March 2023 ranked the highest of all March months going back to 2002 when this CEO departures survey began.
   • Great podcast interview by Adam Grant focused on incentives... particularly relevant regarding incentives for hybrid/virtual/remote employees, and what may work/is being done to tie incentives to "back to work" behavior (or not).
   • Marc Andreessen says remote work has ‘detonated’ the way we connect and it’s young professionals who will suffer the most
     
3. APRIL 2023 - BSG Leadership Pulse | PE Firms, Port Co Doubt Management, Self-Rating CEO Matrix, and more...
   • Nearly Half of PE Firms, Portfolio Companies Doubt Current Management [Recent Survey]

   • Does Your Board Need An Executive Chair?

   • Rising CEOs: Lessons from the McKinsey Leadership Forum
     
4. APRIL 2023 - BSG Leadership Pulse | Dark Side of ChatGPT, Money Talks to Gen Z, and More...
   • Why People-Focused Leaders Are the Key to Overcoming Recessionary Worries
   • The Dark Side of ChatGPT: Future Leaders will have to compete against AI in a way that they are wildly unprepared for.
   • When things get tough, money still talks loudest. While Gen Z had been brought into an economic boom time where pet insurance as a company benefit has made the difference in whether they considered a job switch worthy or not, now that employment adversity is being felt for the first time, actual pay is rising up the stack rank in importance.
5. MARCH 2023 - BSG Leadership Pulse | EQ, Personality Assessment (Real or Bogus?) and more
   • What impact does promoting the most skilled salesperson to a management position have on sales figures - is it a positive or negative effect? Great research with counterintuitive results. Does the Peter Principle really exist? 
   • Are personality profiling assessment tools like Myers-Briggs basically just pseudoscience such as astrology? If so, what are more scientifically grounded methods to gain better insights into both potential new hires and existing staff?
   • Amazon trains all its employees on EQ.  If they do, should we as leaders of other companies?
6. MARCH 2023 - BSG Leadership Pulse | ChatGPT, Post-Pandemic Turnover and more
   • Will AI/ChatGPT influence your hiring techniques? Check out what happened when ChatGPT structured interview questions for a CEO to ask when hiring a new Head of Talent
   • February U.S. Unemployment Rate as of Friday March 10, 2023
   • Culture fit and impact on new hire turnover post-pandemic.