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 […]
Monday, June 11, 2012
Many big company CEOs (disproportionate among operating companies) are portrayed in the press as driven by selfish pursuit of power and money at everyone else’s expense, while a few are reported as (temporary) stewards of the enterprise. Many small business owners are shown to be checkbook managers, pinching pennies when a game-changing investment opportunity presents […]
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 […]
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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