Louise Kelly, CEO & Founding Executive, EnerBank In less than a month, I will be retiring as CEO of EnerBank USA. This decision didn’t come lightly. I’ve spent most of my life in banking: much of it in the mid-Atlantic region and, for the last 13 years in Salt Lake City, as the founding executive […]
Sachin Kamdar, Co-founder & CEO, Parse.ly Building a startup can sometimes feel a bit like waiting for the subway for too long. After you spend more than 20 minutes waiting, you begin to feel more invested — you’ve waited for so long that the next train must be arriving soon. It is difficult to admit
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Michael Parker, Author, It’s Not What You Say: How to Sell Your Message When It Matters Most In the days of ‘control and command,’ leaders could rely on positions of hierarchy that allowed them to indulge in communication that was essentially one way. This communication needed to be clear but it assumed an audience –
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Joel Vento We all know that a sedentary lifestyle yields medical challenges like weight gain, heart disease and kidney failure. Did you know, though, how you sit can also jeopardize work performance? Poor posture affects productivity, but by learning how to sit properly, you can boost brain function and accomplish more during the day. Body Language Affects
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Osnat Lautman, Management Consultant Understanding the power that cross-cultural communication wields on business operations is one of the most important components of international business success. Today’s corporate leaders work in an environment suffused with new technologies that make national boundaries less important, and the Internet enables us to communicate in spite of time differences and
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Stephanie Chung, Executive Coach, Sales Mentor and Business Advisor Every leader is different… some are natural-born leaders and others worked hard to develop such respected skills. The commonality is the final product: An influential executive. However, being CEO can definitely continue to be an intimidating position considering the amount of responsibility and accountability leaders have.
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Janice DiPietro, CEO, Exceptional Leaders International As CEOs we have all felt how lonely the role can be and the multiple and often conflicting demands placed upon us. This becomes amplified as our various constituencies of stakeholders begin the chant relative to the New Year. What is our plan? How will we ensure a successful
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Tom Leahey, Principal & Lead for Strategic Growth Advisory Practice, Windham Brannon Leave it to Silicon Valley to introduce yet another business term―so futuristic and symbolic―that its meaning is barely recognizable beyond those in the know. We’ve had these episodes before. Terms such as “accelerator,” “revenue linearity,” and “asymmetric returns” have been thrown at us
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Charlie Fusco, CEO, Synergixx, LLC If you’re a small company desiring or experiencing rapid growth – jump in–but do so cautiously. Clearly, you’re producing a valuable service or product, but without careful strategies to manage your growth, the business can plummet as quickly as it rose. SAVE MONEY TO MAKE MONEY Rapid expansion, especially for
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Jerry Jao, CEO, Retention Science You’ve heard it all before. Successful CEOs are driven, hardworking, thick-skinned. Starting a company requires the courage to take risks, and an aversion to backing down. Even Elon Musk came toe-to-toe with bankruptcy with both Tesla and SpaceX, living off loans from friends as he poured all his resources into
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