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Dennis Carey and McKinsey Quarterly

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Dennis Carey – with his wide and varied experience as a CEO and corporate recruiter – has also written many articles for various business-related magazines (as well as books). One of these is McKinsey Quarterly. This magazine is filled with helpful articles for business people and consumers alike. One of the most recent articles discusses the benefits of word-of-mouth marketing. No matter how much time, effort and resources are put into marketing, often the best way of getting your product out there is ensuring it is the best and then having contented customers tell others about it. As the article points out, this marketing method is “not only simple but also free.” There is so much out there in terms of marketing methods that it can often become too overwhelming; the “simple but free” word of mouth method speaks volumes.

Word of Mouth Marketing Methods and Dennis Carey

So for someone like Dennis Carey, who is always trying to improve and help businesses, word of mouth marketing is probably nothing new. But it might be interesting to read this article in McKinsey Quarterly that provides statistics for just how useful this is. It might also make his clients happy as the price of word of mouth is definitely something to smile about!

Ex-CEOs Stepping In To Help

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Many big businesses, as of late, have been installing independent chairman who were previously CEOs elsewhere to help out with their companies. This is certainly happening more in troubled companies, but isn’t exclusively occurring in these locations. A governance research firm called The Corporate Library, said that 46 former CEOs are chairmen of other companies, up from 14 in 2004.

Dennis Carey, a senior client partner at recruiters Korn/Ferry International says, “These chairmen are strategic equal partners of the CEO because they already demonstrated a successful ‘in the trenches’ style of management.”

At Delphi Automotive LLP, for instance, John “Jack” Krol was named in 2009 as an outside chairman of this auto-parts company. He was working on the daily matters of the company, and helped to adise Delphi CEO Rodney O’Neal on his 2010 and 2011 operational plans. A Delphi spokesman says that Mr. O’Neal views the new chairman “as a partner and coach.”