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Diane Brady

CEO turnover is up, and boards are favoring experienced insiders who can hit the ground running

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Good morning. You’re not imagining it: CEO turnover is up, and 41% of the 22 incoming CEOs in the S&P 500 this quarter had prior experience running public companies, up from 25% in Q1 last year. And the trend of hiring experienced insiders, which we recently noted in this column, is validated in Russell Reynolds’ latest Global CEO Turnover Index. The CEOs who left were also in those roles longer—11.8 years, on average, vs. 8.3 years last year—and it’s taking longer to fill those roles. Similar patterns are playing out globally. For more insight, I spoke with Russell Reynolds’ CEO Constantine Alexandrakis about the type of leader that is in demand right now:

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