Leadership

Formulate, articulate, communicate, cajole, and inspire individuals and teams to collaborate to create a future that becomes your legacy.

the ceo magazine, conflict management,

Great Leadership Approach to Conflict Management Includes Three Principles

Leadership, Management

Chris Schafer & Brent Carter, Authors, Intrepid Professionals: How Principles from the Military Mindset Build Extraordinary Leaders, Teams, and Businesses In a world where adaptation to chaos is a consistent requirement, leaders need an intrepid mindset – a mode of seeing, thinking, and acting that is hyper-vigilant. There are few challenging areas that need intrepid mindsets […]

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the ceo magazine, leadership qualities,

From Orchestral Director to Board of Directors; Entrepreneurial Insights From My Time as a Classical Musician

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management

Hector Castillo, Founder & CEO, Noysi “I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy, but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.” – Plato. Music permeates my earliest memories and has always been the unique lense through which I view the world. From the age of

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the ceo magazine, business growth,

Quit Erecting Barriers

Leadership, Self Governance

As my clients began to emerge from the global economic turmoil that began in 2008, they indicated they had learned numerous lessons—the most important one: When leaders make good decisions, little else matters. When they refuse to make decisions, or show a pattern of making bad ones, nothing else matters. As I helped these leaders position themselves

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the ceo magazine, ethics,

Why Doing the Right Thing Can Bring You Success in the Global Marketplace

Leadership, Management, Self Governance, Small Business

Paul A. Dillon, Owner, Dillon Consulting Services LLC This is not a typical business article. I’m not really going to tell you directly that you should be doing the “right thing” in business because it is good for customer relationships, or good for business in the global marketplace, in general—or, even that it will keep

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How to Get Your Point Across Persuasively

Business Ops., Editors, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Sales, Self Governance, Small Business, Strategy

CEOs typically have their minds made up about most things—social issues, business decisions, social issues. Just ask them. Very few individuals will eagerly invite you to persuade them to take on a new perspective. So if you’re going to get someone to change their behavior, actions, or opinion, you need to do it purposeful. Then

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the ceo magazine, organizational culture,

Is Your Company Misaligned? These 5 Steps Will Get You on the Same Page

Leadership, Management, Strategy

Riaz Khadem Add up all the time wasted doing things that aren’t important in your organization—by you, your direct reports and those reporting to you indirectly. You’ll probably end up with a large number. That number represents your organization’s misalignment. We once facilitated an executive session with a large company that included three levels of

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the ceo magazine, leadership,

What We Do Poorly

Leadership

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

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the ceo magazine, leadership qualities,

The One Essential for CEO’s

Leadership

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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