Tag Archive | "Time Management"

CEOs’ Grapple With Time Choices

Monday, January 2, 2012

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Over the New Year holiday, I was asked: “What is the one issue with which many CEOs grapple?” Several come to mind: 1. “What don’t I know that could “kill” me?” 2. (Corollary) “What wont anyone tell me? 3. “Am I pushing people too hard or not hard enough” 4. “Is the perception people take [...]

Small Business Owner vs. Small Business CEO

Monday, August 15, 2011

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Jim Blasingame on his morning radio show for small business owners and CEOs made me think (as he always does) and remember stories that may help small business owners. He had just advised his listeners to spend an hour each week out of the trenches, thinking about the direction of the business. It is my [...]

Future Hindsight: Life is No Dress Rehearsal (time management guide)

Friday, February 1, 2008

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It never ceases to amaze me how many leaders cannot give an accurate portrait of how they spent their time over the past thirty days. They may have a general sense of it and a concern that too much of it is beyond their control or even misspent. But the time of the leader is [...]

What Made jack welch JACK WELCH

How Ordinary People Become
Extraordinary Leaders

by Stephen H. Baum (Random House)

Most leaders of American companies started out as ordinary people. What prepared them for the top job?

Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?

"Lessons for life about the core leadership traits of character, risk taking decisiveness and the ability to engage and inspire followers."
--Jim Clifton, CEO, The Gallup Organization

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