As the founder of The New York Enterprise Report (which was sold in 2014), I had a front row seat to the inner workings of many businesses and business owners. I saw owners that seemed to operate their businesses seamlessly with happy and productive employees, and owners that never seemed to gather any momentum. Of […]
Leadership
Highlights from the Leadership Summit
If you don’t know by now, I am a big fan of Jack Daly , the world-renown expert on sales and company culture. Recently Jack mentioned his top takeways from attending the Leadership Summit presented by Fortune in his email newsletter. I thought his takeaways were terrific and succinct and as they were not available […]
Two Great Examples of CEOs Navigating Change
Mike Bloomberg recently penned an article lauding the leadership of some CEOs (yup, you guessed it right—it appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek). He cited four CEOs and I found two of them worthy of discussion: Reed Hastings of Netflix did one of the hardest things for a CEO to do. And what he did was doubly rare: […]
3 Cardinal Sins CEOs Make
I’ll admit that I could have changed this around a bit, made it more “positive” and called it “3 Things That Great CEOs Do.” But that would look like every other blog. Anyway, here they are. The 3 sins: Doing instead of leading. For clarification, leading is setting direction and goals, providing resources, and making sure […]