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The CEO as Change Champion: Aligning the Organization with a Strategic Pivot

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 […]

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Escaping the Engagement Paradox with Conversation

Leadership, Management, Strategy

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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The Power of the Pivot: How listening to prospects and clients can transform your company into an industry leader

Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Strategy

Will Fleming, CEO, MotionPoint Corporation Recently, my company—a provider of technology solutions for business globalization—celebrated its 15th birthday. MotionPoint, with its culturally diverse team of more than 200 employees, is a pioneer in its field. But localizing websites, and later discovering ways to maximize the value and impact of those sites in ways that transcend

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Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Small Business, Strategy

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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Why the Old Black Should Be the New Black: Are You Adding or Taking Away from Your Value?

Leadership, Strategy

You may remember George Burns. The cigar-gumming circular-bespectacled comedian. He was known for many things from his acting parts in Oh, God and The Sunshine Boys from his earlier vaudeville fame to the fact that he lived to be 100. You may not know that he was born Nathan Birnbaum. He was one of 12

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Why Smart Managers Make Stupid Decisions

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Strategy

Ever find yourself on a team or in an organization that’s struggling because of a leader’s poor decision? Citizens clamor about such crippling effects by their politicians routinely. You sit back and reflect on the leader personally and wonder why a savvy, experienced, and ordinarily capable person could make such a stupid decision or policy—one

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Go Out Strong

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy

As I got up and started my morning, I told my plants and rocks what we had accomplished for humanity yesterday, and I asked them for guidance for today. Looking around I also realized that a white orchid that has been with me for two blooming cycles was doing its best to hold it together.

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Does your vision add value?

Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Strategy

John Dowling A vision without value is a pipe dream. Let’s examine some real life success stories as examples of what value has meant to these successful visionary ideas. Starbucks Opening a coffee shop in the United States and then franchising it 30 years ago seemed like a vision conceived by looking out of your

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Are You Stuck in the 80’s? Do You Still Love Your Daytimer?

Leadership, Management, Strategy

Are you still making excuses to use a paper calendar? You don’t have a flip phone anywhere on you, do you? I don’t know about you, but I loved my Daytimer. Perhaps you loved your Franklin planner. I was more efficient with my beloved Day-timer than I am with my Smart phone, smart as it

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From Private to Public: Lessons Learned from the IPO Process

Management, Strategy

David Spitz, CEO, ChannelAdvisor I’ll never forget the sound of the bell ringing. As I stood on the platform of the New York Stock Exchange, surrounded by our senior leadership team, I knew it was a moment I would never forget. The jubilation was like the final ringing of the class bell on the last

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