Anthony Zolezzi, Serial Entrepreneur, Innovation & Profitability CEO Advisor and Author Most Fortune 500 businesses and CEOs that I consult for today have great brands and services. These brands, services and assets were, at one time, state of the art and best in class. However, these brands and services are now being challenged by an […]
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Jennifer Kahnweiler, Author, The Genius of Opposites In 1998 I accepted a job as a director of employee development at a utility company. I was pretty pumped with the chance to start some new initiatives. Amy was assigned as my assistant. I came full of enthusiasm and couldn’t get the words and ideas out fast
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Raymond D. “Ray” Zinn, Author, Tough Things First Seth Godin recently identified some reasons why CEOs can be stupid, and he almost found the central theme (almost, but not quite). CEOs are human, and as such they fall prey to human emotions. One of the trickiest human functions is ego. In Godin’s blog, he listed
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Douglas Obey, Author, Money and the Human Condition Living through the 1060’s and 1070’s would have convinced you that there were no difference between the sexes, but I think we have evolved since then. And while there are no absolutes between men in women in business or regarding finances there are plenty of generalities we
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Mike Goldman, Author, Performance Breakthrough: The 4 Secrets of Passionate Organizations One of the big challenges I hear from CEOs all the time is, “I can’t seem to find a way to hold my team accountable”. The leadership team has seemingly productive meetings where they define priorities and assign responsibilities and then nothing gets done.
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Steve Newhall, Managing Partner, Leadership & Talent Consulting, UK Business leaders spend significant amounts of time designing and agreeing upon strategy but comparatively little time thinking about their culture. In a 2014 Korn Ferry survey, while 72% of executives agreed that culture is extremely important to organizational performance, only 32% believed their own organization’s culture
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Mike Zani, CEO, PI Worldwide A recent Harvard Business Review survey revealed that 66% of CEOs cite “talent-related issues” as their top business challenge. Finding and competing for top talent is only the beginning: once you’ve hired people into the organization, making sure you are identifying and developing high-potential employees is also a significant concern
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Tommy Spaulding, President, Spaulding Companies The Brown Palace Hotel in Denver has been one of the most elegant establishments in Colorado since its founding in 1892. It was named one of the world’s 500 best hotels by Travel & Leisure and every U.S. president since Teddy Roosevelt (except Calvin Coolidge) has been a guest at
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Gary Carmell, President, CWS Capital Partners Kierkegaard said that “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward.” My book, The Philosophical Investor – Transforming Wisdom into Wealth chronicles the lessons learned in a nearly 30 year journey in the world of investing and in life. Learning from others and ourselves is at
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Mike Figliuolo, Co-author of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results “Steamroller” personalities can be caustic. They get results but at the expense of relationships and morale. Sometimes they’re outright aggressive and roll over people. Other times they’re passive aggressive and get results with no regard for the emotional
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