I hear great leadership development stories often. They are always worth sharing. One of my senior executive friends was the first in his family to go to college. At one point it was not even clear to him that college was worth a shot. He had a decent job, a decent income and minimal expenses […]
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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In the summer of 2007, two of my friends who are business owners saw early signs of economic trouble in their revenues and began contingency planning. In September of 2007, they began to put these plans into action and completing all phases by year end. These included but were not limited to layoffs at all […]
Friday, October 17, 2008
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I hope you find value in an update on what my friends and clients who are CEOs and business owners are doing at this stage of the financial crisis and worsening economy. First, some context: in August of 2007, our CEO group saw the first signs of the approaching storm, especially our members whose business […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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I have to wonder how come the Brits were able to move in less than 5 days from a call to action to action, how they arrived at a simpler solution than ours (theirs calls for guarantees of bank loans to each other and infusion of capital), a preservation of the structure of the system […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Saturday, October 25, 2008
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