ARE YOU AN ENTREPRENEUR UNDER STRESS? DO YOU WORK FOR ONE? LESSONS FROM SCUBA DIVING Let’s first stipulate that emotions sometimes are crucial to actions under duress – for example if someone is shooting at you. Then fight or flight responses are appropriately triggered by emotions. The rest of the time there are lessons of […]
Monday, June 25, 2012
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How The Best CEOs See Others One of last week’s working sessions was not the first time a client lamented instances when things did not work out as he wanted. We conducted a sort of instant replay to understand behaviors, dynamics and outcome. As usual, I learned from the conversation and reflected on patterns from […]
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 […]
Friday, March 2, 2012
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Executive Director of Not for Profit vs. CEO – Shared Issues OK, so not for profits do not have shareholder value or stock price as a unifying measure of success. Ok, so nobody takes a job at an NFP for the pay. But many of the challenges require similar approaches and tools. One of my […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Monday, July 9, 2012
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