Own the Phone, or be Owned by it
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGood habits are hard to acquire and bad habits are hard to break…and our dependence on smart phones doesn’t seem to helping in getting rid of the bad ones…until now. This short HBR article provides some great insights into habits good and bad, and offers some interesting technology options for dealing
Toys Were Us
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s one thing for a business or industry to suffer a significant downturn. It’s quite another for an industry icon to disappear entirely. To wit: the Toys ‘R’ Us shutdown, liquidation and its soon to be total disappearance from the retail scene. What can we learn from the demise of Toys
The “Dottie Test”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs organizations grow and C-Level executives become busier they often lose sight of the team members who occupy the lower rungs of an ever-growing org chart. Charles Schwab CEO Walt Bettinger shared a valuable lesson in a NY Times Interview which taught him “you should never lose sight of people who
“Crazy Enough to Work?”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe great Danish physicist Niels Bohr once remarked to a young scientist who had presented a new idea to him that “Your idea is crazy. The problem is that it’s not crazy enough to work.” Many new businesses start out with a business model and/or strategies that are dismissed as “to crazy
Eat Last, Don’t Learn Last
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn old leadership proverb is that “leaders eat last” and a new book bearing that title by Simon Sinek explores the topic well. However, one area where leaders “eat last” at their peril is failing to invest in their own development as well as that of their team. Vistage’s Chief Research Officer, Joe
Are You a Pusher?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNo, not the kind that word generally brings to mind…. I mean as a leader are you a “pusher?” Patrick Lencioni author of “Five Temptations of a CEO” and “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” says you should be. Learn why he says “Leaders are Pushers.”
Steve on Email
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe think of Steve Jobs as a great creative entrepreneur whose feel for the market and insights into design created great products that people stand in line for. He was also very persuasive and a great communicator. If you’d like a few tips on one particular aspect of his abilities,
How Ike Did It
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFew people had more important and momentous careers that President Dwight (Ike) Eisenhower. During World War II he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. He not only led the planning for the invasion of Europe, his remarkable interpersonal skills held together a fragile coalition of US, English,
Seven Best Business Decisions of All Time
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few years back Vern Harnish (“Rockefeller Habits”, “Scaling Up , “Gazelles”) shared what he thought were the seven best business decisions of all time in a short video. At the end, he commented that 6 of the 7 decisions had one thing in common. See if you can identify it before
Drucker’s Big Five
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s hard to believe that the legendary Peter Drucker’s been gone for over a decade; perhaps it’s the timeliness of his work that keeps him top of mind with so many executives. Many companies will be focusing on their strategic plans during December and it’s easy to get lost in
