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Jeff Thompson, MD, CEO Emeritus and Executive Advisor, Gundersen Healthy System As CEOs we are generally very skilled at strategic planning or operational implementation. Many are great at recruiting and others are superb at building strong teams or diverse partnerships. All of those are very important. But one of the key pieces that many of […]
Diana Jones, Author, Leadership Material: How Personal Experience Shapes Executive Presence Leaders maintaining relationships and emotional equilibrium under stressful conditions is more important than technical acumen. This capacity is prerequisite for inspiring others. Leaders with presence remain steady under pressure.
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Gary Morton, Author, Commanding Excellence: Inspiring Purpose, Passion, and Ingenuity through Leadership That Matters Inspiring human beings to achieve the truly extraordinary requires something more than a mission statement. Well-constructed mission statements define the field of play, what the organization does on those fields, and what is unique about the organization’s approach; but they are typically
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As CEO, you’re frequently called on to introduce someone—a celebrity for your big client event of the year, an industry guru for your management meeting, a politician for a community gathering. Whatever the occasion, you never want to be that person who disappoints the speaker, confuses the crowd, and embarrasses yourself. As I sat in
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Gustav Degerman, Founder & CEO, Portfoliobox CEO’s are notorious for taking control and managing their business, but at the same token, it is important for CEOs to empower their employees in a way that increases productivity, and in turn increases the overall business development. What better time than the present or the new year for business
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April 18, 2017 marked the 75th anniversary of the dramatic bombing of Japan that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor. On that day in 1942, at 8:20 in the morning, 16 B-25 bombers under the command of Jimmy Doolittle took off from the USS Hornet 750 miles from Japan. In 1942, most experts found the
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Gerri Knilans, President, Trade Press Services CEOs run organizations. They are the highest-level executive officers in the company, and their primary duties include driving revenue and profit, making major corporate decisions and managing the overall operations and resources of a company. Even if the company is small, there’s still
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Leaders Must Have the “Edge” to Drive Change This article is the third in the “All Change is Personal” series looking at three traps that leaders need to manage in order to steward their organization through change efforts. To read the first two articles in the series and learn what Trap’s #1 and #2 are,
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Pop quiz here: Do you sometimes second-guess yourself about decisions until opportunities pass? Do colleagues and clients frequently seek your opinion on their big decisions? Do you often get feedback on the quality of your contributions in meetings? Do those meeting ideas produce the results you intend? Like artists, wise leaders analyze and focus on
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J. Benjamin English, Partner, Hirschler Fleischer Regardless of their industry, chief executive officers inevitably confront the need to transition ownership and management of their business to others. Whatever form this transition takes — to the next generation in a family business, to a management team buying out the owner or to a third-party buyer — it
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