A recent Forbes piece indicates that 95% of CEO expectations focus on profits and growth, not engagement and innovation. It's no wonder then why disengagement scores and innovation project failures hover around 80% worldwide. The lack of attention to engagement and innovation frees up executive time for the tasks more seemingly relevant to profit and growth like buying more promising people, leaders, experts and businesses and spinning off underperformers.
It takes a unique leadership team to know and respect the massive data we now have connecting engagement and innovation with organizational success.