Self Governance – Page 19 – The CEO Magazine

5 Tips for Becoming an Office All-Star…From a “Corporate Oddity” who Beat the Odds

Joshua Coburn With competition in the business world growing at a faster pace the need for new and creative leadership is rapidly growing. Fulfilling this need has resulted in an influx of new employees penetrating the corporate landscape. Frequently these employees are thrust into management positions untrained and ill-equipped for leadership. Below are five tips […]

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The CEO and Brain Health

Self Governance

CEOs make important decisions everyday that affect an entire company. Setting the direction for where a company is headed requires lots of brainpower; however, many of the habits that some CEOs exhibit have a huge impact on cognitive performance and brain health. From lack of sleep, poor dietary habits, stress, lack of exercise, and smoking,

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3 Lessons You Can Learn from an NFL Training Camp

Management, Marketing, Self Governance

My first two cars were Orange and Brown. Not great colors for a car, but great colors for a Cleveland Browns fan. My first real purchase when I started working was two Browns season tickets. I was both an official Browns Supporter and an unofficial Browns supporter who really was at the 4th longest NFL

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Mentorship Insights 3: Teachability

Leadership, Management, Self Governance

Teachable moments abound, and the mentee’s level of vulnerability determines the mentee’s teachability. The mentee must be willing to learn through formal and informal lessons. You and the mentee should identify learning opportunities from which the mentee can glean meaningful insights and then implement the lessons learned in a way that produces tangible results. A

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Mentorship Insights 2: Accountability

Leadership, Management, Self Governance

To gain your respect and admiration, and to maximize the relationship and your time, the mentee must account for his or her actions (good or bad) to you because you are in a superior position to judge the mentee’s actions, provide encouragement or initiate correction. Flying solo without regard to others and the rules that

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Mentorship Insights 1: Vulnerability

Leadership, Management, Self Governance

Let the mentee know that the first step to establishing an effective mentoring relationship is for the mentee to slowly expose his or her weaknesses to enable you to focus your efforts on better equipping the mentee for independence and success. In other words, the mentee’s guard has to come down to enable the mentee

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Does It Have to Be So Lonely at the Top?

Leadership, Self Governance

I often reflect on the point in my career when I was promoted to a position reporting to the Vice Chairman of one of the largest insurance companies in the world. I was so excited to be a senior person “in charge” at a young stage of my career. However, I began to notice, in

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Why Do Bosses Go Bad?

Leadership, Management, Self Governance

It’s the quest of many working people – work hard, do a good job and get promoted someday so you can be the boss. It’s the reward in most corporate cultures, to climb the ladder and be in charge. If most of us get to the top by climbing our way there, how come we

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CEOs and Heart Disease

Self Governance

Charlie Bell, CEO of McDonalds, (60 years old) Ranjan Das, CEO of SAP India, (42 years old) and Jerald Fishman, CEO of Analog Services (67 years old) – What do these men have in common? The world lost them way too soon to a disease that is becoming all too common among CEOs. Heart disease.

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Taking a Moment to be Thankful, Especially After the Plane Tragedy

Self Governance

Nadine Lajoie After the tragedy of the Asiana Boeing 777 plane, crash-landed on the runway at San Francisco airport, as the CEO of our business, but most importantly, the CEO of our “higher self”, the questions we may ask ourselves are: “If that would have happened to us, can we say we lived fully, with

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