April 5, 2024
Conflict resolution is the issue that my Vistage members, independent of industry or profession, rank as their number one priority. And with good reason. Conflict is a huge barrier to real success. I believe that business leaders can make the biggest impact on their bottom line with the least amount of investment through learning and… Read more
September 30, 2021
Are you overwhelmed and stuck in the weeds? Do you feel Lonely at the top? Are you a high achiever wanting to break all records? Or are you a new business owner? In the Small Business CEO series, Mark Taylor, retired CEO and Executive Coach, who spends over 400 hours a month coaching CEOs, shares… Read more
Our Vistage NYC June Expert Speaker is Hunter Lott, one of Vistage International’s Top Award Winning Speakers. Hunter was the Vistage Speaker of the Year and winner of the Vistage Speaker Impact Award. If you have been wanting to experience a Vistage meeting to see what it is like, this is one you won’t want… Read more
January 14, 2014
Check out the article at http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/738edaa8#/738edaa8/8… Read more
December 13, 2013
I am so proud of my daughter who has been my best student—brings real issues, listens, takes action, and reports what happens. Here is what she wrote in her blog. Please follow her at https://twitter.com/mwdejesus Dear Fellow Managers, We suck. Before you curse me and defend yourself, I say this out of love—and it applies… Read more
December 1, 2013
Are you challenged with people that are not performing to your expectations? Do you feel that your employees are not doing all they could? Maybe it is caused by your mid-level managers. Authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman said in their book, First Break All the Rules: What The Worlds’ Greatest Managers Do Differently, that people… Read more
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DYp4679Dxo] Key Points: There is an enemy bouncing in our heads. It’s the enemy of openness “We think we’re open, but we’re not.” Openness is the grand illusion. Social psychologists tell us the brain is wired for self-justification. Biologists say that we cannot tell a perception from hallucination. The only way we know that we’re… Read more
What is executive coaching or CEO coaching? This is a very funny video where Bob Newhart shows us executive coaching and demonstrates a sure-fire method to resolve any issue in less than five minutes. In Tribal Leadership Philosophy, we view one-to-one coaching as a sign of Stage Three. Stage Three is the dominant culture of U.S. workplace tribes… Read more
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47rQkTPWW2I] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47rQkTPWW2I] The book, Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization is the result of a 10 year study of over 24,000 people. Authors Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright recognized strategies failed 70 percent of the time. In their inquiry as to why this occurred, they discovered Peter Duckers’ statement… Read more
November 13, 2012
According to a groundbreaking three-year study of over 5,000 managers who hired over 20,000 employees, “46% of newly hired employees will fail within 18 months.” Interestingly, the number one reason employees failed was their inability to accept and implement feedback from their boss and colleagues. Stage 2 and 3 are not good at accepting feedback… Read more
