Management – Page 29 – The CEO Magazine

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Insuring directors and officers through M&A and IPO events

Jeff Van Gulick, Senior Vice President, Commercial Lines Practice Leader, HUB International Corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPO) bring necessary capital and resources to a growing company. But, these transactions can also be the impetus for legal recourse – a significant liability for the company’s directors and officers. Mergers and […]

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4 Ways to Make Data-Backed Corporate Travel Decisions

Finance, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Sales, Strategy

Travel is essential to SME success in today’s global, hyper-connected workplace. Employees working with customers across the country or throughout the world is not uncommon – in fact, it’s quickly becoming the norm. While travel is essential to developing and maintaining important relationships, providing needed support and securing new business, this piece of your company’s

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M&A Best Practices: The Art of Value Creation

Management

Ronald J. Recardo, Managing Partner, The Catalyst Consulting Group LLC Many Presidents and CEO’s have come to the realization that they cannot achieve their growth objective by relying only on their internal growth engines (e.g. new product development, 5 P’s of marketing). Unfortunately, there have been a plethora of studies that have concluded the success rates of

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Business as a Force for Good: The New Norm

Management, Strategy

Marga Hoek, CEO, Sustainable Business Association Every entrepreneur should want to improve the world. Those that do not, and especially businesses that consume and damage our social, environmental, and financial assets, are contributors to the economic, environmental and social problems that we are struggling with today. This recognition makes it clear that it is the business

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ONE Question Managers Must ALWAYS Answer Correctly

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management

Managers hear questions every day. Some serious; some trivial. “Are the merger rumors true?” “How much is our budget being cut?” “Can we extend our deadline a couple of days?” “Is our team going to have to work over the weekend?” But the ONE question that you have to answer correctly every single time is

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Three Tips to See Beyond Your Filters for Good Decisions

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management

You’re wired to see what you already believe. It’s a simple statement but the implications for decision-making are complex. What you already believe is built layer upon layer from your experiences which create a filter through which you see the world. Good decision-making relies on understanding how your brain’s filter colors perception and influences interpretation.

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Are You Creating Your Own Culture Traps?

Leadership, Management

When people talk about the inner contradictions of an organization, they frequently refer to “culture,” that omnipresent word that describes all pleasant and unpleasant by-products of decisions. But they seldom identify the real problem—the decisions that create the traps. Here are ten examples of how that happens: People don’t realize that their decisions create the

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Critical Discussion with Your CFO

Management

Janice DiPietro, CEO, Exceptional Leaders International As you execute your plan for 2016 and deal with the myriad of issues and opportunities that CEOs face every day, it is critical that your communications with your direct reports be as succinct and meaningful as possible. This article, the first in a series, addresses the most salient discussion

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Engaging the Whole Employee

Management

Bob Kelleher, Author, I-ENGAGE, Your Personal Engagement Roadmap During the past decade, organizations have increasingly embraced employee engagement as a way to attract and retain the best employees – knowing that a culture of engagement will better position them to capture employees’ discretionary effort (and help the bottom line). That all sounds good, but it’s more

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How a Marine Mentality Can Help Build a Successful Business in Any Industry

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Small Business

Will Post, Founder & CEO, Hound & Gatos Pet Foods According to the Small Business Administration, over 90 percent of all businesses are considered small, which is having less than 500 employees. While there is a lot of information readily available to explain to would-be entrepreneurs about how to go through the steps to open one of these

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