In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 22, 2013

So, why do 21 st century CEOs continue to struggle in their roles as leaders of a business enterprise? Consider this: The Conference Board reports that the average tenure of a CEO in America is 8.4 Progress may be represented by top-line sales, market share, productivity, innovation, new product launches, or expanding distribution.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

During her tennis career, Serena Williams maintainedand still doesa healthy, largely plant-based diet as part of her philosophy of eating to live rather than vice-versa. Laurent Valosek is CEO of Peak Leadership Institute. He has worked with teams from organizations including Harvard Medical School, F5 Networks, Angellist, and Google.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Lisa Hook, CEO of Neustar, Inc., innovation unquestionably dominates, and we need to keep it that way. NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Only 25% of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce are women. That’s according to research from the White House Council on Women and Girls. According to [a U.S.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

When I looked back into history to track the origins of some of the everyday innovations we take for granted today, I found that every inventor tended to embody some or all of these same traits. Further, the approach taken early in a career can help or hinder in the future, and that goes for any field. Spitz immigrated to the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture. Early in my career, I swam in four years of red ink at Jacobs Suchard ’s Canadian subsidiary. © 2011 In the CEO Afterlife.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2024

The New CEO : Lessons from CEOs on How to Start Well and Perform Quickly (Minus the Common Mistakes) by Ty Wiggins Becoming a CEO is a high-stakes moment, whether it's your first, second, or third time in the seat. What you say and how you act in your early days as CEO sets the tone for how you'll be perceived for years to come.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

As a CEO, success isn’t just about achieving your own personal goals. Here are the top ten habits of successful CEOs that get results: Prioritizing time: Successful CEOs focus on the most important tasks and responsibilities. Setting clear goals and expectations: Successful CEOs are clear about what they want to achieve.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 29, 2024

9:30-11:56: Transitioning to Dan’s current endeavors, he introduces us to his innovative approach to fostering connections within organizations, especially in a remote work environment. 20:02-24:22: Addressing the CEO’s perspective, the conversation highlights the underlying reasons for wanting employees back in the office.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control. I have only raised my voice in the workplace twice during my career and both times I have regretted it tremendously.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

A CEO’s ability to perform effectively is so closely tied to their ability to form a clearly articulated vision, evangelize the vision and then to execute on their vision, that no real discussion on executive leadership should take place without an emphasis on vision.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&#

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As such, women executives should position themselves for success in these new roles, from chief data officer, chief digital officer, and chief innovation officer to chief sustainability officer and chief transformation officer. Not just that, their efforts offer the business world an innovative blueprint for pulling through crises.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

As Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world, and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S., I had a lot of success early in my career. Humble, authentic leaders who really understand their craft are equally scarce. Michael Hyatt : Very much so.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

If I only had a nickel for each time a CEO has told me “We have the best talent in the industry.&# If CEOs spent half as much time on talent initiatives as they do complaining about talent, their companies would see significant improvement thus obviating the need for all the complaining. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Over the years I’ve met more than a few CEOs who paid little or no attention to their board of directors, only to find themselves wondering what went wrong as they were being ushered out the door prior to the expiration of their employment agreement. As a CEO, your board can be one of your greatest allies.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Good Power : Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World by Ginni Rometty Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty recounts in Good Power , her groundbreaking path from a challenging childhood to becoming the CEO of IBM and one of the world's most influential business leaders. The result: mixed signals.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Think about it…when was the last time you viewed a negative soundbite of a CEO who was engaged in active listening? Organizations can no longer guarantee work and careers, even if they want to. A key point for all leaders to consider is that it’s impossible to stick your foot in your mouth when it’s closed.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 12, 2022

Keith Smith, CEO of Vonco Products, is on a social mission to help those seeking to live a more empowered life, cultivate innovation, overcome fear, or become a more effective leader. Being clear about the value that you’re bringing to the world at any level of an organization or at any place in your career.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Tenure Inhibits Change and Cripples Innovation : Organizations that favor tenure also tend to be prone to majoring in the minors. All of these traits preclude the advancement of change initiatives and cripple innovation. often evoke feelings of hatred at the mere mention of their name.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision. As a person that works with CEOs and entrepreneurs on a daily basis I can tell you with great certainty that all leaders are not created equal when it comes to the competency of their decisioning skills.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 21, 2024

Research from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) found that a CEO’s last name can significantly impact their job security and boost their pay by as much as 4.9%. perceived CEOs’ last names and where they came from. This perception was then linked to CEO pay and job security. after these countries opposed the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

This is so much the case that some CEOs will avoid restructuring initiatives at all costs. My question is this…since when have fear and avoidance become prerequisites for success as a CEO? That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

I cannot even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a CEO tell me that certain immutable business principles just don’t apply to his/her business because, “this business is different.&# What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Regardless of where you are in your life and your career, I can promise you one thing; you will consistently be faced with challenges and obstacles along the way. My question is this: have you taken the time to do the necessary planning? You will face physical, mental, financial, relational, and resource challenges among others. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Donaldson and Karl Weber extract relevant lessons for leaders in Entrepreneurial Leader.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2024

Davis explains what the science of personality is and how it works, and how all of us can use it to improve our working relationships, careers, and lives. More specifically, his success in his military and corporate careers was predicated on the people who worked with him, and for him. Now, he is sharing it with the world.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

During one of the most turbulent times in Silicon Valley history, Brad Smith was the steady-handed, innovative, and always resilient CEO of Intuit. Lots of practice is required, but it will pay off 100X throughout a career. But how come some people seem to “fail forward” even when times are tough? Go ahead and try.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At an organizational level have you focused so much on process improvements and incremental gains that you’ve failed to recognize opportunity and innovate? Are you efficient or effective, or do you know? I really don’t have a problem with increasing efficiency so long as the tail doesn’t start wagging the dog. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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