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You’ve Reached the Top. Now What? Pointers for Facing Life After the C-Suite

Nick Craig, President, Core Leadership Institute Congratulations: You’re at the top of your organization or field. CEO, CFO, chairperson, award winner… Most executives and high-achievers have a predictable narrative as to how they expect their journey to turn out, from moving up the ranks in their organizations to reaching a coveted position, often with a fancy […]

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Is Your Company Misaligned? These 5 Steps Will Get You on the Same Page

Leadership, Management, Strategy

Riaz Khadem Add up all the time wasted doing things that aren’t important in your organization—by you, your direct reports and those reporting to you indirectly. You’ll probably end up with a large number. That number represents your organization’s misalignment. We once facilitated an executive session with a large company that included three levels of

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Marissa, ”No Margin No Mission”

Management, Strategy

Chas Klivans The journey of Yahoo has been sad to watch…because it was preventable. Sometimes our human frailty leads us to get enraptured with our company’s 30,000 feet vision. During the consulting engagement to assist the Saint Joseph of Orange’s Board of Directors with their hospital system’s five year growth plan; we in the suits were

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The Xbox Rules: Lessons Learned as the CXO

Leadership

Robbie Bach, Author, Xbox Revisited: A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal When I am introduced as Microsoft’s original Chief Xbox Officer (or CXO), I get all kinds of reactions ranging from “Wow, what a great opportunity” to “Can I have your autograph for my son?” The Xbox saga was a challenging journey in

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Why an Enemy is Good for Business

Strategy

The self-help industry and the associated cult of positivity often leave us with an incomplete picture of the environment we find ourselves in. We end up seeing only opportunity without risk and end up relying on hope as a strategy. But just as crucially, this partial view of reality robs us of the positive potential

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Does Your Biz Have Sustainable Intrigue?

Marketing

When I ran my own agency, I knew that intrigue was crucial to getting a potential client involved, but if I failed to deliver something of substance, I would have never secured those clients, or I’d have soon lost them. And the key to delivering substance was research. Every time we pitched a company, we

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