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Are you training your people to beat the competition?
The Q4 Vistage CEO Confidence Survey stated that …”the expected upsurge in business prospects have given a new urgency to finding, hiring, training, and retaining
Have you laid out the steps to achieve your stretch goal for 2017?
Last week we discussed a stretch goal I made for hiking in 2016. This week I said I would discuss how to reach a stretch
Did you set yourself a stretch goal for 2017?
Last year my family hiking group set a goal of hiking through Matterhorn Canyon in the north eastern corner of Yosemite National Park. It is
Are you celebrating the good?
I hope this week of holidays brings you joy! The busyness of decorating the house with holiday traditions, buying presents, sending cards, calling friends
Does who you are “being” speak so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying?
All of us have had the experience of meeting someone that we don’t like and not being able to explain exactly why we feel that
Do people speak up at your organization when something negative happens?
How likely is it that someone will call out a fellow team member when they take a shortcut counter to policy, or when someone talks
Do you model results then work backwards to your actions?
Assume you want to have Net Income of 10%. And, you currently have Net Income of 7% What would you have to do to increase
What sets you out from the rest?
When one of my Vistage Members asked me to look at his website’s new landing page, we got focused on describing his competitive advantages in
Are they “our” vision, mission and values or “your” mission, vision and values?
Last week I worked with a management team to draw up a Conversational Code of Conduct.* We spent what was, to them, a very long
Would you like some great questions to ask your team?
Last week, I discussed bad behavior that happens at companies and what the leader can do to address it. For today, I promised I would
Are you the last person to know what is happening at your organization?
Has this happened to you? Someone is stealing, or sleeping every day on the job or taking drugs at work, or… whatever, and people know.
Are you triggered?
How often are you in a meeting and someone says something that either makes you shut-down, or respond in anger or with a clear
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