Aug 27, 2010
Keeping control of your Company’s vision and its execution is essential if you are to create wealth – even after you relinquish the CEO seat. I learned a lot from two CEOs I knew well, who each let go of control of their companies to new management at the height of...
Aug 20, 2010
Now, I understand this is advice you might have heard from your grandfather, or his father, or someone who endured the Great Depression of the 1930s. Thing is, it is still true. Thing is, we are in a similar state to that condition of the 1930s, and recovery will take...
Aug 20, 2010
When changes disrupt your business from market shifts in your industry, or from larger economic downturns, it is imperative that you re-assess the market’s response to your offerings that have been working prior to the disruption. This means that you must ask these...
Aug 20, 2010
What more is there to say than this? It is an imperative to all CEOs. It is a discipline which must be learned, and applied, and applied again, and not neglected, until it is in your very nature. If you run a product company or service company or consultancy, you must...
Aug 20, 2010
We are going to explore here the dark side, the righteous side and the upside of your battling through the emotions that accompany economic conditions you cannot control. Recessions and depressions are depressing. Industry downturns can be worse, because you see other...
Aug 20, 2010
A lot of emotional energy and time is consumed by worrying about the larger economic conditions that affect us personally and professionally. It is easy to say “Don’t worry” and difficult to do. Like with depression and rage, (see http://bit.ly/aMs2Rz) action often...
