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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 […]
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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Think of the questions you asked or were asked at your last company meeting. It’s likely that you heard one, if not more of the following questions: What do you think? Are there any questions? What’s next? What’s the problem? What are the results? What’s the agenda for the
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The Institute for Health and Human Potential conducted a survey for our New York Times bestselling book, Performing Under Pressure, The Science of Doing More Your Best When it Matters Most (Crown Business, 2015), asking senior leaders about the impact on them and their teams when they were tasked to do more with less. Here
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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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As a senior level executive, you can have a profound affect on everyone in your organization. I was reminded of that today when I was talking with a friend and colleague and told him that I had an offer for a partnership within a particular group. In our circles, this new partnership would be groundbreaking and
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No one sees a flower, really. We haven’t time. For to see a flower takes time, like to have a friend takes time. – Georgia O’Keefe The holidays are upon us. The air is crisp; the few remaining leaves crackle. As we dig out last year’s coats, we reach towards next year’s potential. Ambitious, we
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Sitting above the clouds let’s us dream about the future for our business, but blocking off time and getting off site with your team is how you make that dream a reality.
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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Mark Fagan, CPA, Managing Partner, Connecticut Office, Citrin Cooperman Jack Welch, the highly quotable former chief executive of GE, once said, “Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.” That’s a vital lesson for CEOs of companies that are going through a strategic pivot. It is fine for a CEO to mandate a
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