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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Positive Leadership: Top-Ranked Leadership Companies Perform Better


Key takeaways from Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders report:  

  • The best companies for leaders generate dramatically greater market value over time than the weakest companies for leadership development.
  • Leading public company CEOs commit a higher priority to leadership development in spite of the added burden of more complex and “distracting” environments with added pressures for short-term financial results.
  • Smaller and private company CEOs spend more of their personal time (25 percent versus 15 percent) on both developing others as well as developing themselves, but are less likely to install systematic processes for leadership development.

Top-Ranked Leadership Companies Perform Better
Summary 10-year performance comparisons*
Chief Executive/Chally Worldwide
Best Companies for Leaders Survey Ranking
Average % Market Capitalization Growth
Top 15% of Resopnding Companies+22%
Bottom 15% of Resopnding Companies-23%
*Includes companies where public data is available for 2001 through 2011. Reasons for unavailable data include merger, acquisition or start-up within the period. A full survey report is available at www.chally.com.