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Vistage International

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  • World’s largest CEO membership organization
    • 200 U.S. cities, 15 countries, most recently China
  • Community of business owners/CEOs/Division CEOs with similar values, issues and aspirations for growth, predisposed to help each other
    • Wired together by a private, on-line network for expertise, resources, contacts
  • Local Groups in which members have safely entrusted to each other their most sensitive issues; facilitated by a trained business coach
    • For facilitated issue processing (problems and opportunities)
    • Confidentiality and trust are paramount: no competitors, no customers, no suppliers in the same Group
  • Powerful resources
    • World-class workshop leaders
    • Website with best practices, subject matter experts

Vistage NYC Metro CEO Group Overview

The one group to whom you continually entrust your most sensitive issues and get really powerful, useful feedback: fresh perspective, fresh ideas or validation. A group that is there for each other.

Meetings you never want to miss because of the constant flow of solutions that save you time and effort. And because they are energizing and fun.

Representing:

  • Sophisticated and complex firms
  • Wide range of companies in terms of sales volume and employees
  • Unique in that its busy, frequent-traveling members live in a “New York City minute”
  • Diversity of individual and company characteristics

Current Membership

Testimonials from Members of NYC CEO Group

Candidates We Seek

We seek members who:

  • have a passion to grow (their business and personally) to the next level
  • are open to learn, eager and able to share, giving and receiving feedback
  • bring diverse background and experience to the Group

In addition, to be at “eye-level” with the rest of the group, we seek members who are business owners, CEOs, Division CEOs with P&L and serial entrepreneurs. Charter member companies already range in size from multi-billion in sales to under $50mm.

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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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Asides
  • Is our behavior in the face of challenge determined at birth or by our environment? Are leaders born rather than made?

    My obsession with what makes some ordinary people become extraordinary leaders led to my interviews with dozens of CEOs which Random House published in 2007 and to the Master Class series at Pace. The thesis is that there are particular “shaping experiences” which develop leadership traits and capabilities.

    Epi-genetics is the new field of study that is beginning to confirm that nurture determines a lot about us: our behavior, our illnesses and more. Work on animals and on human twins shows that no matter your genome, there is a system of markers that switch genes on and off in a way that controls your reaction to stimuli. These markers are largely from environmental factors from what happened while you were in the womb, to how you were treated in your childhood, to stressful situations to pollution. And the markers you have accumulated can go-awry as you age.

    The good news is that by treatment, including drugs, these markers can be added or removed.

    Together with breakthroughs in neuroscience (how our brain works during different mental and emotional conditions), we are about to glean powerful new understandings relevant to our lives as well as careers.

    For an intro to the field, view the PBS Nova Science Now program on the subject:

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3411/02.html

    That’s my view. What’s yours?

  • For a few years now, Jim Blasingame and I have shared stories, insights and practical suggestions for survival of small business in tough times. He should be your fave for an unlimited supply of helpful ideas for your business. Go to:

    http://blog.smallbusinessadvocate.com/management-fundamentals/small-business-economic-challenges
    and also to the home page of smallbusinessadvocate.com

    Please let me know how helpful you find this great resource. Jim is, himself, a very successful small business owner who knows whereof he speaks.

  • As I said in a prior post, the fruit vendor on a nearby street corner in New York City told me he is working on becoming a bank holding company so he can get in line for a bailout. Is there no end?

    Today’s announcement it was announced that insurance companies will be allowed to reduce the reserve capital they have to make sure they can pay benefits to customers when the time comes. Isn’t this converting insurers to be like AIG? Isn’t insurance with low reserves the same as gambling?

    There was no accompanying clear and detailed plan for oversight. Just like the billions of dollars that have flowed into the investment bank.

    That’s my view. What’s yours?