CEO Storytelling What story are you living? Sometimes hearing someone else’s story can change you. In addition to being coach to business owners in the CEO membership organization known as Vistage, I have my own group of fellow Chairs who coach me and each other. Last Friday, we Chairs experienced a very timely workshop with [...]
Thursday, August 4, 2011
My CEOs who battened down the hatches as early as Fall of 2007, executed the unthinkable savings and cash provisioning in early 2008 and began selective risk-taking (acquisition of talent, acquisition of distressed companies,…) in late 2008 found the first quarter of 2011 encouraging. Profits were up, additional opportunities were surfacing, investments were being digested [...]
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Thriving in the New Normal What follows are notes from a conversation yesterday with Jim Blasingame, who has his finger on the pulse of small business, His website is one of my faves: Small Business advocate My world includes small business owners, corporate CEOs of firms owned by private equity outfits, private equity firms themselves [...]
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
A recent NRDC environmental report pleaded with urban dwellers to use more durable umbrellas. Apparently, thousands of umbrellas break and are discarded each and every time it rains in major cities and these end up in landfills. Catherine Charlot’s innovative initiative in capitalizing (literally) on this profit pool (pun intended) was the subject of Alisa [...]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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