Wall Street Journal (July 28)
“Big companies are getting smaller—and their CEOs want everyone to know it.” Executives used to tiptoe around staff cuts, trying to avoid linguistic landmines. In contrast, corporate leaders are now “recasting the headcount reductions as accomplishments that position their businesses for change.” Similarly, they are increasingly likely to view “large workforces as an impediment, not an asset.”
Tags: Accomplishments, Asset, Big companies, CEOs, Corporate leaders, Executives, Headcount reductions, Impediment, Landmines, Recasting, Staff cuts, Tiptoe, Workforces
Institutional Investor (July 3)
“Japan is not without ambitious women who have been able to get ahead, as well as corporate leaders who are making an effort to promote more women…. But barriers persist.” Kathy Matsui, who coined the term womenomics, recently estimated that “Japan’s GDP could rise by nearly 13 percent if the employment rate of women rose to match that of men.”
Tags: Ambitious, Barriers, Corporate leaders, Employment rate, GDP, Japan, Kathy Matsui, Women, Womenomics
Institutional Investor (June issue)
“Optimism is beginning to infect Japan’s corporate leaders–a crucial factor considering that the new policies must spur corporate investment and expansion if they are to succeed in fostering a sustainable economic turnaround.” Corporate leaders have welcomed Abenomics, but the jury is still out. “Corporate Japan will consider the new government successful if it can end the psychology of deflation and stagnation and offer the prospect of renewed growth. So far, business leaders are fairly optimistic.”
Tags: Corporate leaders, Deflation, Expansion, Government, Investment, Japan, Optimism, Psychology, Stagnation
