BACKGROUND: MANY NEW LEADERS DE-RAIL There is ample evidence that recruiting and vetting a new leader is, at best, a 50/50 proposition (fewer than 1 in 2 perform to expectations), even when an intense effort is carried out. Why is that? My Vistage CEO Peer Advisory Board has years of top-grading their leadership teams with […]
Sunday, January 24, 2016
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LEADERSHIP TRAITS FOR SUCCESS A START I only recently was sent an article on child-raising by of National Geographic, published in October of 2014. In the article, Margaret Del Guidice reports on an educational effort by Angela Duckworth and her team to devise strategies to help students learn how to work hard and adapt in […]
Saturday, May 19, 2012
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Why Business Owners and CEOs Love Private Equity Riverside Company owns all or part of nearly 80 companies, most of which would be classified by big banks as “small business.” This segment of business, especially those less than five years old, generate most of the jobs in the U.S. This week’s two-day conference was attended […]
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
You may or may not be a Steve Jobs fan because of some of his personal history. But what he has done with Apple after returning to the fold is simply amazing. And he has an understandably large following of employees and customers. What happened? Randall Stross has captured the answer in his article: What […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
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