Communication Services and Trends

Rittenhouse Rankings advises CEOs and executive teams on developing high-performance communications and strategies based on best practices revealed in the annual CEO Candor surveys.

Over the years, we have identified three key trends:

  1. High Candor scores and rankings reveal high quality leadership, cohesive corporate cultures, more reliable accounting and superior financial performance.

  2. High Fog scores and low candor rankings indicate the potential for inconsistent leadership, performance problems, corporate cultures that lack cohesion, and less reliable accounting.

  3. Corporate Candor is linked to capital stewardship, defined by Warren Buffett as treating investors the way CEOs would want to be treated if their places were reversed. We call it the "financial golden rule.