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Vistage NYC Workshop for CEOs: The Growth Myth–Successfully Exiting Your Business

The Growth Myth Are You a Business Owner Who… Seeks to exit at some point in the not-so-distant future, typically several years from now? Actively works in your company? Cares about the legacy you leave behind? Feels an obligation to people impacted by your exit: co-owners, key employees, valued customers? Desires to reach financial freedom… Read more

3 Tips for Great Management

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

Three Actions You can Take to Create Better Leaders on Your Team

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

The Enemy of Openness by Mark Taylor at TEDxTimesSquare

[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

Tribal Leadership Stage Two is its Not My Fault

[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

The One Thing That Makes the Difference between Success and Failure

Through her work as a psychologist at Stanford University, Carol Dweck has been able to identify the one thing that makes the difference between success and failure. In her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, she says there are two mindsets you can have in this world, and the one you choose will make… Read more

Tribal Leadership Insight: The Principles of Effective Triads

John King and Dave Logan concluded after a ten year, 24,000-person study, that 75% of our corporate cultures are ineffective. (Published as Tribal Leadership 2008) The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. One of the great insights of their research was that the 24% of organizations that were effective had… Read more

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