THE BOTTOM LINE Questions can be more important than answers. Good CEOs know this. Among the questions: “What don’t I know that could kill me?” And “Am I pushing too hard or not hard enough?” BUILT INTO MUSCLE MEMORY It is NOT that they do it every day, just periodically. Good CEOs challenge their own […]
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Hiring someone to lead an organization, even with a terrific recruitiment/assessment process is a crapshoot (technical term). “You do everything right and your odds of a fit for the long term are 50/50,” said one of my CEO Group members to another. The process may include behavioral interviewing, serious (third party) reference checking and assessments, […]
Friday, March 2, 2012
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Executive Director of Not for Profit vs. CEO – Shared Issues OK, so not for profits do not have shareholder value or stock price as a unifying measure of success. Ok, so nobody takes a job at an NFP for the pay. But many of the challenges require similar approaches and tools. One of my […]
Monday, October 24, 2011
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A third party professional services team will help one of my CEO clients to enlist the minds and hearts of thousands of employees at all levels to what he believes will lead to better ways to work together: heightened collaboration across silos to win in the marketplace, focus on strengths, transition away from negative behaviors. […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Monday, September 2, 2013
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