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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 […]
CEOs, Failure Isn’t The End: 3 Rules of Pivoting Read More »
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
The CEO as Change Champion: Aligning the Organization with a Strategic Pivot Read More »
Is your organization stuck in the Engagement Paradox? Time and again, we see that the more leaders try to manage engagement, the more disengaged their employees actually become. So what causes this paradox? It’s not that employees don’t want to be engaged; many are committed and loyal workers who come in early, stay late, and try
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Chip R. Bell, Keynote Speaker & Author, Sprinkles: Creating Awesome Experience Through Innovative Service Full disclosure with a hat tip to Clement Moore, the author of the famous 1823 poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas.” This is not intended to advocate obesity (“chubby and plump”) or smoking (“stump of a pipe”). But, the holiday season
The Leader as Santa Read More »
When was the last time you had a good belly laugh. I mean one of those laughs that consumes every part of your body, that literally stops you in your tracks, almost gasping for air… that kind of laughter. Have you ever thought about it? When was the last time you laughed like that? Or
When leaders continually and constantly grapple with tough questions and develop a list of standards that serves as more than a pretty poster, their beliefs serve as the bedrock of the organization’s strategy and provide guidelines about how and what to change. When beliefs veer from espoused values and create a dysfunctional or confusing set
Four Things You Can’t Ignore When Making Tough Calls Read More »
Edgar Papke, Author, THE ELEPHANT IN THE BOARDROOM: How Leaders Use and Manage Conflict to Reach Greater Levels of Success To be a truly successful leader requires you to be aware and operate at four levels: global, organizational, interpersonal, and self. Each level presents its own set of challenges. At the global level, you need
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Top talent is crucial to your company’s success. Without it, you’re not in business. That’s why no task on a CEO’s agenda is more important than recruiting and retaining top talent. In today’s employment market, that takes work. A recent survey from the society for Human Resource Management found that 59 percent of HR executives
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Christie Caldwell, Director of Consulting (Asia-Pacific), Aperian Global The HR VP for a major US corporation leans across a broad desk on the 33rd floor of a glossy office building in Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district. “We basically have a leadership crisis here in APAC when we start to hit the director level. From this level
Leading Across New Borders: The Next Level Read More »
With the holidays here, we will soon find ourselves outside of the office as leaders and members of a different type of team. Apart from serving as CEOs of our organizations, we are also children, parents and siblings. We are cousins, aunts and uncles, and friends to others. As you take time to reflect on the importance
The Most Important Team You Lead Read More »
