BrightSight Group speaker Fred Krupp is president of Environmental Defense Fund, which according to yesterday's NY Times are partnering with Kohlberg Kravis which "has more than $185 billion of annual revenue and some 825,000 employees worldwide through the companies it operates. Its decision to embrace environmental issues could have far-reaching implications for business operations and might put pressure on its top rivals to follow suit." NY Times - Felicity Barringer And Andrew Ross Sorkin

From the article,

"Kevin Coyne, a management consultant and a professor at Emory University's business school, says new CEOs usually decide whom to replace within the first 60 days. CEOs assess lieutenants and place them in one of four categories: stars who will be key aides; other keepers who aren't stars; people to replace eventually but not immediately; and those who should go immediately.

Mr. Coyne says the most common regret among CEOs in hindsight is not replacing mediocre people -- those in the third category -- fast enough. "They wish they had been one step harsher," he says. "Most of them say, 'I was too forgiving.' "

Mr. Coyne says CEOs tell him they hesitated for a variety of reasons: The executive was well-liked inside the company; the CEO feared firing too many people too quickly; or the CEO believed the deputy would ultimately come around to his vision for t

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