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Leadership
How Does Your Leadership Style Impact on Your Company?
How well do we really know our cultures? For a CEO, it’s important that you have confidence in your vision for the...
Leaders: Keep Your Culture True to Your Ethical Principles
Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with lots of high integrity leaders who are at the cutting...
Managing the Distributed Workforce
Project Oxygen is the code name for research that Google engaged in for 10 years to figure out what behaviors make for...
7 Ways to Avoid Common Entrepreneurial Mistakes
We usually think of entrepreneurs as being young adults (e.g., 20-30). In fact, the Kauffman Foundation tracks...
Are You Promoting the Wrong People?
You’ve probably heard of the “Peter Principle”: the concept developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that...
What’s the Focus of Excellent CEOs?
McKinsey recently published a study in which it tried to understand the mindsets and practices of excellent CEOs. To...
7 Ways to Avoid Common Entrepreneurial Mistakes
We usually think of entrepreneurs as being young adults (e.g., 20-30). In fact, the Kauffman Foundation tracks...
Lessons On Leadership from Microsoft’s CEO
What’s it take to be a transformative leader? Today, Microsoft is the #1 company by market capitalization; the last...
To Win, Presentations Require Emotional Intelligence
One of the fun parts of my job is the ability to draw insights from juggling the diverse set of issues I address in an...
Pitching Deals with Emotional Intelligence
Over the last year, I’ve witnessed a number of companies pitching private equity, investment banking and related deals...
The #1 Attribute of Leadership: Inspiration
For years, as a coach and mentor to CEOs and other executives, I’ve helped them adopt and polish skills on how to be...
Leadership Requires Being a Role Model
Often, people ask me what kinds of CEOs join Vistage. I reply that my members are smart, curious people with lots of...