Jody B. Miller, CEO, C2C Executive Search & Strategic Management Jerry Colonna was a Venture Capitalist, Co-Founder of Flatiron Partners and later a key executive of JP Morgan Chase’s Private Equity arm. An investment in your company by Jerry and his team meant that you were officially valuable. Your company could potentially become the next big […]
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April 18, 2017 marked the 75th anniversary of the dramatic bombing of Japan that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor. On that day in 1942, at 8:20 in the morning, 16 B-25 bombers under the command of Jimmy Doolittle took off from the USS Hornet 750 miles from Japan. In 1942, most experts found the
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Gerri Knilans, President, Trade Press Services CEOs run organizations. They are the highest-level executive officers in the company, and their primary duties include driving revenue and profit, making major corporate decisions and managing the overall operations and resources of a company. Even if the company is small, there’s still
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Randall Bell, CEO, Landmark Research Group, LLC Tennis is all about footwork. As many Roger Federer fans know, watching a great tennis player is like watching a dancer. After each shot, he returns to the middle baseline, squares his stance, and gets ready for the next return. He hits a great shot and he’s back.
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Kevin F. Davis, Founder & President, TopLine Leadership, Inc. I’ve seen it time and again, and I’m sure you have too: a high-performing rep is promoted into sales management but never becomes as successful as a manager as they were as a rep. Why does this happen? The core issue is an irony that has gone undetected
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BJ Gallagher, Author, The Leadership Lessons from Oz “The beauty of metaphor is that it conveys not just information – but meaning.” ~ Warren Bennis, leadership expert Every once in a great while, a metaphorical story comes along that captures the human experience in such a perfect way that it becomes a timeless classic. The Wonderful
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Jay Coughlan, CEO & MD, TruBalanced Everybody in leadership has some adversity from time to time. The great leaders, the ones we remember and revere, are the ones who find a way to win and move forward with the least collateral damage. Leaders like that are unique, and they do unique things in their organizations,
Paul J. Zak, PhD, Professor, Claremont Graduate University Fear or love? At the most basic level, these are a leader’s choices when seeking to motivate followers. Most managers, perhaps due to some hangover from the eighteenth century, lead by fear because, well, it works. Fear may not be explicit, though some managers still scream and
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Karin Hurt & David Dye, Authors, Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul The board cares about winning and this guy is helping you win. He gets it done. It’s hard to argue with the results. So what if he’s ruffling a few feathers… with his team, with his peers, with HR, with
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Ilene Marcus, Author, Managing Annoying People: 7 Proven Tactics To Maximize Team Performance How can leadership be a better job? As a boss, all eyes are on us whether we like it or not. Our key responsibility is to embody the soul of our company’s efforts; to display the values and commitment of our brand proposition. That’s
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