BACKGROUND: MANY NEW LEADERS DE-RAIL There is ample evidence that recruiting and vetting a new leader is, at best, a 50/50 proposition (fewer than 1 in 2 perform to expectations), even when an intense effort is carried out. Why is that? My Vistage CEO Peer Advisory Board has years of top-grading their leadership teams with […]
Sunday, May 29, 2016
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What would it take to have a “farm system” of future leaders getting better and better? BACKGROUND A fellow coach and I have each spent time with executives in charge of “talent management” in different enterprises. Comparing notes, we found that these executives are proud of the recruiting and assessment they have accomplished but […]
Sunday, July 28, 2013
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THE BAD HABIT Every once in awhile, one of my CEO clients will reveal she or he has regressed in a behavior in which they have dramatically improved over time. Sometimes it is being dictatorial when another style would get better results, sometimes it is allowing their attention to be diverted from what they know […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
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In my radio interview with Jim Blasingame (Small Business Advocate), I gave him three questions to ask when you are eager to get someone to change their mind and take action accordingly. I failed to give credit to the source, a speaker at the January worldwide Vistage International Conference: Daniel Pink. Pink spoke of getting […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
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