I am compelled to post this note upon hearing this story from a senior executive of major public company. It is common at lower levels to observe people oblivious to presentations without being boss ready, but perhaps more common than we thought in the C-suite. “I have a deck the CEO needs to digest. It […]
Friday, March 18, 2011
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Among the financially successful business leaders with whom I work is a wide range of unhappiness or happiness. For a long time, I have explored this topic along with how they define success, their inner thoughts about life and work. Here is what emerged last evening from a conversation about this with one of my […]
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
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If you are the person who asked me to read and review a new book and comment about it on this blog, please know that two weeks of incoming emails and some files were blown away into the ether by the crash of my disk drive. I have been backing up each night ever since, […]
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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You can learn a lot from Jim Blasingame, from his expertise in small business and from his many guests on smallbusinessadvocate.com. And I enjoy staying in touch with him. From this morning’s conversation: 1. VISTAGE MEMBER OUTLOOK In Q4 2009, the business owners in our group emerged from their two year siege of battening down […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Friday, April 29, 2011
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