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The BizPie Blog gives expert advice for executives to help make better decisions, improve your team, and balance professional & personal life.
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
Are you a team or a family?
At the Vistage Executive Summit. Ben Casoncha challenged the attendees to ponder the agreement they make when they hire a new employee. With great
What is your leadership code?
At the Los Angeles Vistage Executive Summit, we had a hugely inspirational talk about leadership from a High School Principal – Linda Cliatt-Wayman. She is
How do you help your team sharpen the saw?
For those of us who love learning and growing this was a super week for Vistage in Los Angeles. We had our Vistage Executive Summit
How are you making the pie bigger?
Entrepreneurs are tricksters – they create something where there was naught. It could be a new way to buy every day items like groceries. It
Are you prepared for your next conversation?
Preparation is highly underrated these days. Somehow, people think they can just wing it and the next customer meeting, the next staff meeting, the next
Is what you say what your team hears?
What is it you say all the time? “Is it finished?” “It’s okay.” “That’s not right!” “That’s not what I meant.” “Can we make it
How many languages do you speak?
Living here in California, 40% of the people you run into speak another language besides English. (2007 census data). In fact, as of the
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