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
CEO Membership
Why Join a CEO Peer Group? Brian Colton of Brooklyn Equity Shares the Value of Vistage
July 28, 2018Brian Colton is the Managing Partner of Brooklyn Equity–a private equity firm that invests and partners with small business owners to build extraordinary companies. Why would a smart savvy PE guy like Brian join a CEO Peer Group, like Vistage? In this one minute video, listen to the value that Brian gets from being a… Read more
The Simple Secret to Making Better Decisions: Tap into the power of triads
January 14, 2014
Check out the article at http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/738edaa8#/738edaa8/8… Read more
3 Tips for Great Management
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
Three Actions You can Take to Create Better Leaders on Your Team
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
The Enemy of Openness by Mark Taylor at TEDxTimesSquare
May 7, 2013[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
April 1, 2013[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
Talk2Brazil Radio Show Interviews Mark Taylor about Vistage, Tribal Leadership, Triads, & the US Economy
January 17, 2012
Talk 2 Brazil is the world´ s only English language talk program on business in and with Brazil and is broadcast through LA Talk Radio, Los Angeles California. The audience is international business oriented, native and non native English speakers, mostly in the US, but also Europe, Asia and Brazil. Here is a link to… Read more
The One Thing That Makes the Difference between Success and Failure
November 26, 2011
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
November 19, 2011
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
