Management – Page 55 – The CEO Magazine

Paradox Thinking: A New and Counterintuitive Way to Solve Problems

Are you often faced with conflicting situations and mixed-message demands from your board, your team, key stakeholders, and the market? Take risks to grow dramatically and protect your current stability. Seek to maximize sales and watch the bottom line. Build future leaders and prove leadership excellence now. Paradox thinking is “and” thinking. It enables balanced management of interdependent conflicting objectives. Adopting […]

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Excuse Me. Do You Mind if I Deliver Inferior Performance?

Leadership, Management

New excuses for inferior performance crop up just as fast as one can whack them down—reminiscent of Whack-a-Mole, a game that involved forcing individual plastic moles back into their holes by hitting them directly on the head with a mallet. This week I encountered a new breed of mole related to a hospital’s low patient

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Jim Camp’s Coaching Secrets: Managing With Results

Management

When I trained as a coach under the great Woody Hayes at The Ohio State University, we all learned one important lesson early: Don’t try to manage results. This is the key to success in anything people do. In this video, I talk about the only two things a person or a team can actually

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The Workplace is Key in Quest for Top Talent

Management, Strategy

Greg Matter, Vice President, JLL At this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival, the shortening of product life-cycles, funding and recruitment were identified as some of the top challenges facing tech firms and start-ups. Although the terminology may differ, these challenges are universal across industries: developing a constant stream of innovative products that provide a competitive advantage;

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Business Strategy, Leadership, Customer Satisfaction, Customer Loyalty, Customer Affinity, Employee Performance, Growth, Business Growth, Entrepreneur, Leadership Attributes

Create Infinite Growth in Business ~ Who You are Being as a Leader?

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Sales, Strategy

One of the most impactful areas to create a radical shift in business growth and results is to be able to distinguish between “what you are doing” each day (i.e., work deliverables) and “who you are being” as a leader. All businesses are results oriented, but what is it that makes one business more successful

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How a SWOT Analysis Could Change Your Business Fortunes

Management, Small Business

Richard L. Weinberger, PhD, CPA As the CEO of an organization, you spend a great deal of your time deciding what future changes will be most beneficial for your company. When contemplating these major decisions, what’s your initial starting point? One effective tool is a SWOT analysis, which highlights the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

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How to Achive Customer Affinity? Provide Exquisite Care!

MOVING FROM CUSTOMER SERVICE TO EXQUISITE CARE

Leadership, Management, Sales

When you move beyond providing “customer service” and connect at a deeper level by providing solutions, it allows you to “understand and care.” It takes the customer’s experience to an entirely new level. When you genuinely care for your customer, they can feel it — it touches their heart. You truly make a difference in

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Who Was Occam? And Why Did He Need a Razor?

Leadership, Management, Self Governance

In April, as decreed by the Church of England, we commemorate the life of William of Ockham, an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher who has influenced modern organizational theory—but not enough. Peter Drucker’s medieval counterpart offered the observation that “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity,” although these exact words never actually appear in

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Yoga For Your Employees

Management

Shari Sandifer, CEO, Avant Work is stressful. Between deadlines, budgets, meetings and managing different opinions and personalities, it’s easy to get buried under the day’s demands. And for individuals trying to balance their work lives with families and other responsibilities, it becomes all-to-easy to neglect one’s own mental, physical and spiritual well-being. While the expectation in

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Failing Gracefully: How to Learn From Your Mistakes to Become a Better Leader

Management

Bob Farrell, CEO, Kewill In the business world, failure is too often thought of in negative terms. But, failure is a normal, even inevitable, part of any executives’ journey. Mistakes can often be some of the best business lessons learned in disguise. Here are a few tips for how you can start thinking of mistakes

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