On today’s WSJ.com, Oliver Burkeman’s article The Power of Negative Thinking, there are assertions any leader should contemplate upon and decide what to adopt in their lives. The basic premise is that focusing on negative outcomes in thought and action can have beneficial effect. Negative thinking can take several flavors and I subscribe to some […]
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 […]
Saturday, May 12, 2012
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Brian Beaulieu, a quant jock economist with a spectacular thirty year record of forecast accuracy spoke at this year’s All-City Vistage event (250 business owners and their coaches in the New York City area). He was both a spellbinding speaker and grounded in indicators of business cycles. And a surprisingly optimistic forecaster with very few […]
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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CEO Storytelling What story are you living? Sometimes hearing someone else’s story can change you. In addition to being coach to business owners in the CEO membership organization known as Vistage, I have my own group of fellow Chairs who coach me and each other. Last Friday, we Chairs experienced a very timely workshop with […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Saturday, December 8, 2012
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