Assessment of the situation to devise a game plan for things to come to fruition.
Sachin Kamdar, Co-founder & CEO, Parse.ly Building a startup can sometimes feel a bit like waiting for the subway for too long. After you spend more than 20 minutes waiting, you begin to feel more invested — you’ve waited for so long that the next train must be arriving soon. It is difficult to admit […]
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Osnat Lautman, Management Consultant Understanding the power that cross-cultural communication wields on business operations is one of the most important components of international business success. Today’s corporate leaders work in an environment suffused with new technologies that make national boundaries less important, and the Internet enables us to communicate in spite of time differences and
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The Institute for Health and Human Potential conducted a survey for our New York Times bestselling book, Performing Under Pressure, The Science of Doing More Your Best When it Matters Most (Crown Business, 2015), asking senior leaders about the impact on them and their teams when they were tasked to do more with less. Here
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As a senior level executive, you can have a profound affect on everyone in your organization. I was reminded of that today when I was talking with a friend and colleague and told him that I had an offer for a partnership within a particular group. In our circles, this new partnership would be groundbreaking and
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Janice DiPietro, CEO, Exceptional Leaders International As CEOs we have all felt how lonely the role can be and the multiple and often conflicting demands placed upon us. This becomes amplified as our various constituencies of stakeholders begin the chant relative to the New Year. What is our plan? How will we ensure a successful
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Sitting above the clouds let’s us dream about the future for our business, but blocking off time and getting off site with your team is how you make that dream a reality.
Tom Leahey, Principal & Lead for Strategic Growth Advisory Practice, Windham Brannon Leave it to Silicon Valley to introduce yet another business term―so futuristic and symbolic―that its meaning is barely recognizable beyond those in the know. We’ve had these episodes before. Terms such as “accelerator,” “revenue linearity,” and “asymmetric returns” have been thrown at us
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Charlie Fusco, CEO, Synergixx, LLC If you’re a small company desiring or experiencing rapid growth – jump in–but do so cautiously. Clearly, you’re producing a valuable service or product, but without careful strategies to manage your growth, the business can plummet as quickly as it rose. SAVE MONEY TO MAKE MONEY Rapid expansion, especially for
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Jerry Jao, CEO, Retention Science You’ve heard it all before. Successful CEOs are driven, hardworking, thick-skinned. Starting a company requires the courage to take risks, and an aversion to backing down. Even Elon Musk came toe-to-toe with bankruptcy with both Tesla and SpaceX, living off loans from friends as he poured all his resources into
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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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