Harry is a first-time CEO. He is almost always the smartest guy in the room, the guy with the incredible memory for details. Really. And he was working 24/7 – fact working when he wasn’t working. On social occasions. With family. While sleeping. His routine flurry of Sunday afternoon emails with ideas and questions was […]
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
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Once again having the privilege of joining Jim Blasingame on his internet radio program this morning, have been thinking about patterns among the small business owners with whom I work. Most got fit during the last cycle. So for those with some wind still in the sails, they are rifle-shot opportunists. A restaurant group is […]
Saturday, August 4, 2012
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Olympic Coach for CEOs and Entrepreneurs? I view Olympic competition with an additional lens from others: that of coach. The variation in real-time team coaching during the games seems very wide: from those who encourage their athletes when they are struggling (e.g., Liang Chow and Mihai Brestyan with Aly Raisman, U.S. gymnast) to those who […]
Monday, July 30, 2012
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One of my close friends was the newly hired CEO of a F200 company – a distributor of industrial products. Customers were king and the unwritten rules of the industry at that time were to say “yes” to customer requests for special handling, inspection, or packaging, even if it degraded product quality or violate the […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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