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What is CEO Time?
You're the Chief Executive of your small business. You're also the Chief Employee. CEOs make a lot of money. Employees do not. If you're not making a lot of money right now in your business, have a look at how much time you're spending as a "Chief Employee."

Orchard survey shows that CEOs expect business climate to improve in 2010
A recent survey of CEOs showed that 88% of business leaders expect 2010 to be a better year for their businesses than 2009. The survey also showed that whilst 2009 was a difficult year for most, 75% of CEOs felt that they had learned some useful lessons from the recession.

Five Ways Forward-Thinking Leaders Are Using The Recession To Build and Reposition Their Teams for Rapid Growth

Over the past eight weeks, I have been interviewing CEO’s of Team Cultures for my upcoming book and have learned some great tips to share with you about how they are strategically benefiting from the economic downturn. Just like the TIGERS universal team values, these tips offer common sense solutions that many individualistic cultures will find difficult to implement due to burdensome hierarchies and competitive infrastructure.

Ideas and Actions of a CEO

CEOs are more than action oriented people. They must be reflective, come up with the lead example, determine the lead course and have great faith in the ideal they are promoting. Great leaders of the past are good examples to study for clues as to how to lead, beliefs to possess, action to take, people to care for and earth and land to entrust. The great are given much and from them much is expected. They must be worthy and act determinedly in the position they have been privileged to stand in

What does a CEO do What is their job discription

When you hear CEO it brings about reactions of envy and awe. But the truth is that most CEO's do not get a very high approval rating as a matter of fact only 1 in 20 CEO's are in the top 5% based on their performance. The Chief Executive Officer has a simple job but by no means a easy one. All accountability falls on the corporate exec. for the company's success or for its failure. The CEO is in charge of leading the company towards profits if you deliver on this you are a good CEO and if you can't then you are not.

What Does a CEO Do?

When asked what a CEO do the answer might vary from individual to individual, even among CEO’s themselves. The short answer is an easy one; everything. The long answer is as complicated as business itself. I hate complications so- as is my wont, I will try to break it down as simply as possible. The term CEO stands for Chief Executive Officer, and that’s a pretty broad term- but it is accurate in describing all of the duties of the CEO. From marketing to sales and fund raising, the CEO is responsible for all aspects of a business. This is a pretty big job and less than 5% of all CEOs perform all their duties with any efficiency. The reasons are as varied as the responsibilities that come with the job description. Most CEOs have the feeling that their job is fund raising, and while that is one important aspect of a CEO’s work the job

7 Tips To Boost Your Business in a Down Economy

Listening to the news and many CEOs, you would think the country is in a depression. At a minimum, these reports put listeners into a depression. While I’m willing to let a few individual businesses slide because of what they do (e.g. residential real estate in Miami), if your company is not growing the way you want it to, and/or margins are shrinking, the problem is inside your company. If you believe otherwise, you are deceiving yourself. In many cases, even in sectors where the group as a whole is doing poorly, you should still be able to do better than you’re doing. Just like Warren Buffet does in the stock market, you need to jump on opportunities when the market is down and be aggressive, not defensive.

Consistently Grow Revenue at Record Levels – Article 1 of 2

There are very few CEOs that are not concerned with sales growth. Ninety-five percent of CEOs that I have spoken with this year described their sales growth as follows: A. Overall sales are below last year. B. Overall sales are about the same as last year. C. We are growing, but our growth rate is slower than that of our top competitors. D. Our growth rate is slower than last year. E. Our growth rate is not where we want it to be. While this may not be a surprise, you’ll be interested to know that the solutions are easier than you think. Even more fascinating is that many companies are meeting sales targets that have been set extremely below potential.

Employee Motivation - 5 Steps to Apply When Mistakes Occur

CEOs and other leaders continue to recycle employees who failed to make perfect decisions and act properly every time. On the surface you might be thinking, how big was the mistake? Many of these executives also use the cliché, “We pay them the big bucks NOT to make mistakes.” Blame is typically being placed on the wrong people. Worse yet, the leaders who don’t tolerate errors typically hold people to standards higher than those that they themselves achieve and attainable by less than 1% of the population, if that much. These are the very same leaders who cannot understand why their employees are not motivated, the same leaders who typically offer better-than-average compensation to keep people, yet still find it difficult to retain or attract top talent.

Why C-Level Executives Are Flocking To The Internet To Start Their Own Home Based Businesses.

The days of 2 hour martini lunches, unlimited expense accounts and free travel with the corporate jet have been over for some time now. With CEO's, CFO's, CIO's and every "C" Level position, there comes huge hours to be put in and while these executives make extensive amounts of money, here is what they lack...Time.. Now more than ever High level executives are looking for a way out of their time prisons and are looking to the home based business industry as their ticket.

Should All CEO's Blog?
Authenticity is critical in social media and you always hope that what you are reading is the real deal

Chipping His Way To The Top: Jobs’ Success Factors
“I want to put a dent in the universe,” Jobs once said. From the Apple I to the MacIntosh to the iPod, Jobs has come virtually close to achieving his goal, managing to make a name for himself in all of the business, entertainment and technological worlds. What did it take for him to get to the top?

Lesson #2: Be Ruthless
“It's my job for Oracle – the number two software company in the world – to become the number one software company in the world,” says Ellison. “My job, is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace, and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.”

Shopping For Success: How Sinegal Took Costco to the Top

When Sinegal’s college presented him with its Most Distinguished Alumnus award, the Costco founder was almost left speechless. “I’ve never been told I’m a most distinguished anything,” was all he could say. With his poor grades and lack of focus in high school, it is doubtful that Sinegal’s teachers ever thought he would amount to much. But, today, with a billion dollar corporation under his belt, Sinegal remains not only one of the most accomplished, but also one of the most admired and liked CEOs in the industry. How did this once reckless young boy become the success he is today?

Lesson #4: An Open Door is A Company Score

You have been on the job for five years now. You come in every day at 8 a.m. and stay until well past closing time. You work hard, you work well, and you have never taken a sick day. So, when that better position opens up, you think you have a good chance of getting it. But, when your application comes back rejected, what do you do? You feel like your efforts are not being justly rewarded, but who can you talk to about it? Well, if you work at Costco, you can go straight to the head honcho, the man in charge, Jim Sinegal.

Lesson #1: Respect Can Reel In Greater Returns

In the world of corporate greed, where the up and coming often learn more about finding the loopholes than following the law, Jim Sinegal sticks out like a sore thumb. Named one of BusinessWeek’s “Best Managers” in 2003, Sinegal maintains one of the lowest salaries compared to other CEOs at his level, while Costco workers are among the most highly paid in the industry. Why did he decide to turn Wall Street on its head by following this model, and how did he manage to make such a venture, one that defies conventional business logic, not just possible but also profitable?

Lesson #4: Fight To Find Your Place In The Field
“A lot of the times when adult stars try to be a CEO of their own company nobody takes you seriously or thinks you know what you're talking about,” says Jameson. “They talk down to you and act like you don't have a clue.”

Living The American Dream: How Dov Charney Fashioned His Own Success

“Give me the chance of going to Harvard or being there when Google started and I want to be there making $3 an hour sweeping their floors. Or Apple when Steve Jobs started it,” says Charney. “Maybe I'm delusional but that's what I think American Apparel is.” For Charney, the success of American Apparel has just begun. But how did he get to where he is today? How did a Jewish Canadian college dropout become the CEO of one of the most revered and fastest-growing companies in America?

Doing it the HP Way: How Hewlett and Packard Rose to Success
The story of Hewlett and Packard has become legendary throughout Silicon Valley: two guys who started off in a small garage with just a few hundred dollars go on to create the largest IT company in the world. How did they do it? How did these two college buddies work their way out of the garage and into the homes and offices of consumers around the world?

Lesson #4: Use the Competition to your Advantage
Two heads are better than one, or so the saying goes. While many CEOs choose to keep all their company secrets closely guarded for fear of losing ground to the competition, Hewlett and Packard were of another opinion. They believed that in some cases, collaboration can actually be better than competition – for everyone involved.

Flying High: How Kelleher Took Southwest to the Top

“I took an aptitude test in college, and it said there were three things I’d be fairly decent at,” says Kelleher, “being a journalist, an editor, or a lawyer.” Nobody – not the other airlines, not the financial community, not even his own aptitude test – believed Kelleher had what it took to start a successful company. So how did this man who was so destined to be a lawyer defy fate and become one of the most successful CEOs of his time?

Lesson #5: Create a Company Culture Worth Caring About
“You have to realize when David and I were doing this it was just for fun,” says Yang. “We never thought it would even become a business.”

Lesson #4: Turn a Learning Disability into a Learning Opportunity

For the 30 years that Orfalea served as CEO of Kinko’s, his office would have been unrecognizable as such. He had no stacks of reports piling up in his desks. He had filing cabinets, but a quick peek inside would reveal no files. He had no computer and often times, not even a pen. Why? Because Orfalea suffered from both dyslexia and ADHD. He ran his company differently from most CEOs because he had no other choice.

It\'s good to be king
The Times and other outlets have been running a spate of stories about executive pay. CEOs who walked away with $100,000 a day paychecks, CEOs making millions of dollars at companies in trouble, CEOs with jets and houses and limos... It's like being a king, instead of having a job.

Please go away (angry)
If you've got more than one person in your organization, you probably have a policy or two. And those policies have certainly made someone angry. Now what?

When to Walk Away

Last month at TED2006 I had dinner with a leader of a major technology company, and we discussed the Big Task Summit my firm is hosting in April. On behalf of our clients Kaiser Permanente, Safeway, and Dupont, we’re inviting leaders from 30 other companies to share in some significant research focused on reducing corporate healthcare costs and increasing employee wellness funded by these companies. This executive suggested I invite one of her co-founders, saying,"He really does care about these issues."

The Top Sixteen Lies of CEOs
At the suggestion of, and with the help of, Glenn Kelman, here are more lies. These are the lies of CEOs running a companies that are beyond the startup phase. Startup phase lies you’ve read here before.

Silicon Valley is Like High School
The quote of the week (at least in my world) was from one of the CEO’s I work with regarding Silicon Valley.

Why Smart Companies Do Dumb Things
Not a day goes by when I don’t ask myself, “Why do smart companies do such dumb things?” We all know companies that cook the books and throw outrageous parties at one end of the spectrum to sell lousy products at the other. A sweeping answer is that companies are run by smart people, and smart people do dumb things as we’ve learned.

The Art of the Layoff
We’re in a bubble again. It’s not as frothy as last time, but hallelujah, this time we know what to do, right? One good thing about the dotcom implosion in 2000 is that we got lots of practice laying people off, and I’m afraid that this valuable knowledge may get lost.

CEOs That Are Introverts
Often there’s a perception that to be a successful CEO, you need to be an extrovert. Media and pop culture reinforces this – we regularly see people that are comfortable in the spotlight and equate them with the model of success.

100 Ways to Succeed #83
Don't Forget Why You're Here!

Talking to Directors
On Saturday, I called a director at a company I’m on the board of to get a reality check on something that is going on. Ten minutes on the phone solved three things: (1) I was able to road test my idea with someone I respect and (2) I incorporated his feedback into my idea, and (3) we were calibrated.

Should You Force Your Investors To Use Your Product?
I had the following exchange with the CEO of one of my investments the other day. Q (Brad): It’s strange to me that only a few of the investors / board members are using Product X. Any insights?

The Top Ten (Sixteen) Lies of Lawyers
Like CEOs, marketers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists, lawyers tell their own specialized tales. Most of my experience is with lawyers who do work for tech entrepreneurs, so this is my focus.

A CEOs Thoughts on Collaboration

I had breakfast with Matt Blumberg – the CEO of Return Path – yesterday. I’ve worked with Matt for at least six years and love the way his brain works. During my frustrating quest for the best chocolate croissant in Boulder (so far all of the ones I’ve found appear to be exactly the same – I’m guessing there is one chocolate croissant distributor in town) we talked some about “collaboration.”

Privacy, Investing Alpha, and the CEO's Mother-in-Law
Much of investing is a search for hard-to-get data that can give you an edge, or alpha. That quest for alpha via better data is one of the themes of my Money:Tech 2008 conference, and it is the topic of an unusual and fascinating article in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal.

American Execs Think they Deserve to be Paid Less
This is hard to believe, but according to a new study, most American executives say they believe they are overpaid.

How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless
Pontificating, theorizing, and terrorizing abounds these days in tech startups. Here is a simple test to help you figure out if the startup you work for is in trouble. All you have to do is listen to your CEO talk to people for a week and determine if she uses these lines.

Sorry About the Understatement!

In a recent Post, I recalled a story from Maryann Keller's Rude Awakening: The Rise, Fall, and Struggle for Recovery of General Motors about the extreme deference paid to GM middle managers. I did it from memory, but ordered the book anyway. I got the stocked refrigerator and the torn-out hotel room wall part right (mostly—it was soft drinks, not beer), but had forgotten the story that preceded it—which made my little vignette small change by comparison. An exec reported this to Ms Keller about a not-atypical incident that marked his more junior days as a GM staffer:

Superstar CEOs Suck
Compensation, status, and press coverage of managers in the United States follow a highly skewed distribution: a small number of “superstars” enjoy the bulk of the rewards.

How do CEOs think?

I travel regularly to meet our customers. Normally, we work with the VP Engineering and the CTO of product Companies. I meet them regularly and most of the time our meetings are technical discussions or discussions about specific projects we may be working on. As the market was slow, most of our customers were not in a position to discuss specific projects. Most projects were on hold, and our customers were under pressure from their CEOs and Boards to reduce costs. This meant that they were pushing us for rate discounts.

The Up-Comers - The 3rd Billion Will Influence All the Rest

The financial community and the industry love to talk about big numbers like a billion. Especially when they're talking about people who are standing in line to spend money. For years we've classified BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) as the growing billion everyone had to begin targeting their products/services to so they could grow profitably. But suddenly that billion look like they are buying the PC/CE/communications products/services as rapidly as they can afford (ok so that doesn't say much right now). So we need to seek out our next prospective market. In a number of countries they have literally been right under our nose...yes women who have previously been viewed as "second class" citizens are asserting themselves and taking their lives, their future in their own hands.

The Timing of Success: How Biver Gave New Life to Luxury Watches
“The watch does not represent the indication of time anymore,” Biver once said.

Lesson #4: “When you are weak, you must act as if you are very strong”
Biver has built a reputation for himself by bringing companies back from the brink. Blancpain, Omega, Hublot – all three had fallen into relative obscurity before Biver stepped into the picture. After a short time there, each had risen to the top of the industry. Thus, when the recession hit in the late-2000s, Biver was qualified more than most in knowing how to get through it.

10 Ways to Keep and Attract Clients
New and not so new methods of retaining and/or gaining new clients for your business. These 10 ways will give you some ideas about how to enhance your marketing efforts and profit from the results. No matter how the economy looks like, you can always perfect your approach towards your existing client base and attracting new ones.

Why Online Marketing Is A Good Home-Based Business
For men and women, especially those who need to effectively balance their work and family responsibilities, becoming an entrepreneur and starting a home-based business is often a much sought after solution. The optimum work at home business is one that can be conducted online because it can be done from anywhere, at anytime and has the potential to reach millions of people.

Do You Think CEOs Flying Blind in their Executive Jets?
The Global Financial Crisis is proof positive regarding the unlimited power and potential that our business executives have. This is an immense power and potential for doing good, or bad!

11 Leadership Resolutions for 2011
11 New Year's Resolutions for 2011 to help Leaders Keep your Main Thing, your Main Thing, discover What is your Joy, take a Ruthless New Year's Personal Inventory, and Get Perspective among other top 11 thought-provoking touchstones to take you from Now to Wow! in the New Year.

How should CEOs select business metrics?

Metrics or measurements used for reviewing and planning various aspects of business have a lot of bearing on the results because what is measured and inspected is considered important by people. Metrics can be classified as historical or forward looking. Bias for historical data and analysis needs to be overcome. Customers, employees, and cash flows can provide vital clues to CEOs aiming to establish more forward looking signals and metrics. One can derive actionable points from even historical metrics if root-cause analysis for coming up with pro-active actions is done. Will all this take CEO's attention away from vision, innovation, and inspiring people? No. The above methods provide a springboard for day to day innovation and path breaking ideas. They also support realizing the vision.

Earnings and Unemployment
In the midst of earnings season, the market is responding in typical fashion. In one of my previous articles from earlier this month, I talked about some of the things the market needed to see from earnings season in order to stabilize and move higher. Well, we’re seeing them. Now what?

Costing cutting at the expense of sales? Bad move
I don't know about you, but when markets start to tighten or when things feel a bit uncertain, instead of cost cutting and bunkering down, I have found that you need to do precisely the opposite. You need to invest in your sales efforts with good strategy, sales training, good sales management and good sales coaching.

Who is your 'brochure' written for?
We are sick of apologising for our businesses not being able to live up to false expecations and promises too frequently splashed about with gay abandon in the marketing materials, annual report, PR hype et al that we are required to use.

I’m a ________ (Insert Your Career Here), Not a Celebrity…or am I?!

When people I meet first learn that I Coach on the topic of Celebrity Branding®, many of them shut down almost instantly. It’s funny, because if there were one subject most American’s are obsessed with, if they would admit it (yes guys, you too!), it’s Celebrities. But I’m actually not talking about Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Oprah or Dr. Phil, I coach entrepreneurs, CEOs, professionals and many others how to charge more for the same services they are offering now, create recurring revenue streams in their businesses and lock out their competitors in their field of expertise. How, you ask? Using the power of Celebrity Branding®! Interested now?!

Leaders - Make the Tough Calls!
Popularity is not part of a CEO's job description. Be a leader and make your decision. Listen to all the input, take the feedback and then decide on a strategy. That's why you get the big bucks...to be a leader and make the tough calls.

How great leaders use values to drive performance

Great leaders instinctively know the importance of values. Values create the organizational culture. When articulated and implemented consistently, values reduce the need for close supervision, engender trust and co-operation with suppliers and customers, and raise performance. Great leaders recognize this. That is why they commit substantial personal time to articulation and implementation of values. They are also good at mastering paradoxes of values.

Let Me Entertain You
It's a known fact that people like to be entertained. They want to feed that part of human nature that wants to feel good and happy. When people are entertained they are willing to spend money, so why not apply this fact to your business? Entertain your clients!

How to Build Your Winning Team

Looking back at the hundreds of business relationships I’ve had in five companies over the last quarter century—employees, investors, partners, vendors/suppliers, subcontractors, consultants, board of advisors and directors, volunteers, bankers and many joint ventures—I can say with confidence that only a few ended up really bad. But then, only a few dozen were extraordinary. The vast majority were pretty much just “OK”. Not great, not terrible. And one would think that after all this time and experience I’d be getting better at my choices. And yet, I still hit and miss. Here is the distinction: I’ve learned to accelerate through my mistakes.

Focus on the critical few.... rather than the trivial many!

Too many growth companies are overwhelmed by lengthy plans and the distraction of the trivial many. Their CEOs find themselves drowning in detail, solving the crise du jour but unable to focus on those few things that would make growth happen. Cast as heroes, they play brilliantly, but dismally fail the audition from actor to director. Great CEOs identify and pursue the ‘critical few’. They make hard choices, adopt an unreasonable stubbornness and ensure each team member is clear and accountable. They leave no fudge room.

Understanding Retail Metrics
Running a successful retail business involves more than buying merchandise, marking it up and selling it. The information you get from your POS software enables you to analyze your operation, identify problem areas, and take immediate corrective action before it costs you a bundle. These reports contain the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for your business.

Lesson #3: “Too many CEOs are leaving sinking ships. They should be the last ones to leave the company.”
Despite Cathy’s success in expanding Chick-fil-A across the U.S., there were a number of stressful events that challenged that expansion.

Understanding and Calculating the Cost of Turnover
A brief look at how one determines their turnover rate. Another article details the causes of turnover and how to reduce it's impact on your organization.

Advertising during recession
The article is on advertising & how advertising is not a expense but investment

Keeping Your Employees Focused in an Uncertain Economy
In these tough times it's becoming more and more difficult to keep employees focused and motivated. This article gives business owners a few tips on how to keep employees motivated and focused in these tough economic times.

Blogging as a Sales Tool
A blog is a highly advanced and yet very simple way of marketing your business by profiling a member’s, client’s or employee’s experience. Although client testimonials and reviews are the strongest sales tools for a business, online blogging can also work as a major marketing tool to increase online exposure and spread the word about your company much farther than you thought possible.

How to Avoid the Devastating Email Marketing Mistakes
We read it everywhere, whether in specialized publications or on our forum that the future of online marketing and customer relationship involves emailing. Indeed, email marketing is a formidable tool to consolidate the relationship with the customer, however, this same tool can be devastating if you do not make it right. Here are seven points to monitor in particular.

An Audience with Charisma

Throughout my career I have often found myself in the company of individuals who have that indefinable quality that draws you to them, and leaves you feeling wonderfully energised as a result of meeting them. As a teenager I studied theatre and the performing arts. I remember the day that I realised technical excellence alone did not guarantee a brilliant performance. Being a huge fan of Ballet I fully appreciated the precision and mastery of The Royal Ballet Company. Yet when I saw The Bolshoi Ballet Company perform Swan Lake the artistes would glide onto the stage yielding an invisible power that captivated, and mesmerised their audience whom they were able to move to tears.

Jump-Start Sales in a Slow Economy
When the economy seems shaky, businesspeople feel shaky. Hysteria sets in and managers and CEOs run for cover, making panic moves that cause more problems than they solve. Here's how to avoid making costly errors by learning how to spot the three most common mistakes most businesses make in a slowing economy.

Is Your Leadership Characteristics Limiting Your Business Success?

I have worked with stacks of businesses over the years. Often I am asked to name the most important indicator of whether or not a business will succeed or fail – my answer is always “Look at the CEO”. CEO’s and their personal leadership characteristics can make or break a business. A good CEO sets clear direction and boundaries, provides assistance and support to the team and then gets out of the way to let them accomplish what needs to be done. They help unblock roads if needed and provide guideposts along the way – but their management style is such that they do it in a way that creates independence of action rather than dependence.

Key Steps to Reach CEO-Level Contacts
Key Steps to Reach CEO-Level Contacts

13 Lessons Learned on Approaching the Press

Until I did my first public workshop here in Boston last June, I didn’t realize the amazing similarities of my work as a publicist and how it relates to the work I know do with helping my coaching and consulting clients to land large corporate contracts and sponsorship programs with Fortune 500 companies. Since then, these ideas have been rattling around in my mind and I thought I’d share them with you.

7 Foundations for Sales Greatness!
There are 7 key areas to develop when laying the foundation for your sales team. Build on these principles, and you will set your team up for greatness!

Executive Networking
This article originally appeared in http://www.thenationalnetworker.com Networking isn't just for small companies or for sales executives. In the US and in the UK Chief Executives and senior directors are getting together to discuss their challenges and issues, and to give each other support. Andy Lopata looks at how CEO and Leadership Networks are having an impact in the UK.

All the Truth about Business Coaching
Demand for Business Coaching has been soaring in the last few years. Hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives of large corporations contract business coaches with the objective to reach higher levels of business performance. This article provides details about the Business Coaching methodology, areas of application and guidelines to select the best coach.

Leadership in Crisis

Top executive failure rates are estimated to be as high as seventy-five percent and rarely lower than thirty percent. A McKinsey study found that the pipeline for future leaders is broken. Only three percent of those responding to the survey felt their company developed leaders well. Why is this happening? Simply because leaders -- like the rest of us -- tend to judge their own performance significantly better than do those they work with.

The Three Rules for Hiring A Players

It is very hard for people to admit that they are not good judges of character. In fact, just about everyone I know thinks he or she is a superb judges of people. But is this true? Are people generally good at assessing the qualities and evaluating the talents of others? The good news is that the research on this question consistently points to the same answer. The bad news is the answer is a resounding no — people are not particularly good judges of character.

Learning from Experience: Implementing After Action Reviews in Your Sales Force

The problem with many sales organizations is not laziness, lack of selling skills or the myriad of other issues CEOs point to when sales are down. The problem with most sales organizations is the inability to learn from experience.er Action Reviews are now used by many companies in a number of ways. When conducted properly, the AAR serves as a post-event debrief that generates specific actionable recommendations (SARs) for immediate use. It also creates an environment in which sales people can identify real mistakes, learn from them, and make immediate adjustments, rather than get bogged down in blaming the market, the prospect, or the competition.

Blogging as a Sales Tool
How Online Blogs Can Help You Generate More Business

Role of Leadership in Planning

Executives love to talk about planning… most complain their processes don’t work very well. Harvard Business Review reports that only 11% of CEOs believe that strategic planning is worth the effort. Most planning processes are too complex, and only document decisions already made. CEOs have the responsibility to make their planning processes effective; I believe the key is to keep the processes simple and focused.

Top 10 Tips to Stay in Control When Your Market Feels Out of Control
When the economy seems shaky, businesspeople feel shaky. Hysteria sets in and managers and CEOs run for cover, making panic moves that cause more problems than they solve. Paul Cherry shows how to avoid making costly errors by learning how to regain control by implementing his top ten tips.

Branding Plays a Key Role in Attracting Top Talent
Just as a corporate brand offers a certain promise to customers, an employer brand is a promise of a specific work environment, a certain type of relationship with the company, and a set of values. In short, it’s the company’s personality. And it's the key to attracting and keeping top talent.

TP's "CEOs are Idiots20"
My list just got another entry:

I'm Sorry!
It's rude to call people "idiots." It's rude to call CEOs "idiots." (I am assuming here that "CEOs" are "people.") It's really rude to call people "idiots" when you are a Guest. It's really, really rude to call people "idiots" when you are a Guest in another country. It's really, really, really rude to call CEOs "idiots" when you are a Guest in another country.

CEO's are Becoming More Sustainable

CEO's taking on sustainable leadership and thinking will pierce the green ceiling opening the door tho innovation in the new economy that will produce sustainable organizations, energy efficiency, environmentally awareness, reduce waste, optimize capital (human, intellectual and economic)and optimize resources to produce value and a greater return on investment for companies and their supply chain.

How to Get a Promotion

In today's competitive business environment, more and more people are seeking something that will give them that extra edge: the help of a professional business coach. No longer considered a luxury enjoyed by only a few CEOs, business coaches are frequently consulted by individuals and organizations looking for guidance on everything from how to resolve conflicts, build successful teams and develop next generation leaders.

Creating a Culture of High Performance

Heroes in sport may be compared to leaders in organizations. How the members behave and perform is often a result of the example set by leadership. For instance, if a company’s set of published standards are that it values responsibility and accountability, but management often does not abide by these stated principles, employees will, as a consequence, feel it is alright to do the same, thus fostering a culture of deception contrary to the stated value. What kind of culture exists in your organization? Does it contribute to the personal goals that you, as a leader, have or envision for yourself and your company? Do changes need to happen in your culture, values, beliefs and norms in order to stay competitive and achieve high performance in today’s radically changing business environment?

Do You Have What it Takes to Be Successful as a Franchise Owner?
Have you ever wondered if you have the personality and skills to be a successful franchisee? There are over 2500 franchise companies operating in the US, each requiring a plethora of different skill sets in a franchise owner.

The Social Entrepreneur as CEO/Business Leader

Towards the end of my corporate career almost 20 years ago there was much talk about how human resources executives would soon be the new breed of CEO’s. This hasn’t eventuated! Accountants, lawyers, and engineers still dominate CEO ranks. In many cases this means logic overrides intuition, in personal and organisational decision making, rather than the ability and willingness to find the relationship harmony point between logic and intuition. Could a change be in the air? Human resources executives will probably still not become the new breed of CEO, however my sense is that Social Entrepreneurs will.

Web 2.0 and SaaS for Human Resource Managers
Recently we were asked by "People and Management" a popular HR magazine in India to explain Web 2.0 and SaaS to their readers who are mainly senior HR Folks, CEOs and other management profiles. Our thoughts were published in the magazine as an article titled "Web 2.0 and The SaaS Factor for HR". Here is the summary of this article.

7 Ways To STOP Chasing Decision Makers!
You probably know this scenario well: Your main contact at a company has expressed interest in possibly purchasing your product or service.

Visionarys Disease and the CEO

We all know the value of vision. The Greek philosophers spoke about it. Former President George Bush recommended attention to "the vision thing." What happens when an organization's problem isn't a lack of vision but too much? What happens when the CEO's vision changes monthly, weekly, or even daily-driving his organization crazy? Welcome to Visionary's Disease. If you are consulting to someone who suffers from it, you are probably very frustrated.

Money Management

I have come across a lot of entrepreneurs in my years of business – micro entrepreneurs and CEOs – and there is one thing that I often seen as being the difference between the two. Entrepreneurs who are just starting out are passionate, full of ideas and ambition, and determined to succeed. CEOs, while often equally as passionate, have one thing that many others don’t: money management skills. Startup entrepreneurs are in business to make money, but many do not know what to do with it once they have it. Since success is rarely a one-time stroke of luck, read on to discover some money management tricks that will help you stick around in the long run.

Human Resource Management

Ask any CEO of any Fortune 500 company what the most important part of their company is, what is the one single thing that drives their company to reach new heights of success, and I guarantee you they will tell you one thing: people. People are the power behind any company, big or small. So how do you keep your people happy? How do you ensure they are working to maximum capacity and boosting your company’s productivity? The answer comes in three not so simple words: human resource management.

Management Courses

It’s a big, scary world out there, especially for the entrepreneur wanna be who has had little to no business experience or training. Entrepreneurs are known for their willingness to take risks, for their innovation, and not necessarily for their academic record. Indeed, many of the most successful CEOs in the world are those who dropped out of university or even high school in order to follow their dreams. But for those of you who aren’t sure you are the next Richard Branson, a high school dropout so determined to be his own boss that he is now a billionaire, there are other options. One of those options is to take management courses.

The Five Levers of Leadership
Leaders have tough jobs. Why? Because in most cases they bear 100 percent of the responsibility for the performance of their team yet receive little glory for their efforts. The best leaders work longer hours, endure more stress, and have greater responsibility than the people they manage.

Business Management

It’s sometimes funny to me how many people actually go about their day performing a wide range of business management tasks, yet they still know little about what that actually means. What is business management? What does it entail? How do you do it well? Those questions continue to boggle the minds of even the highest up CEOs. If you too are in a management position and are plagued by what your job entails, then keep on reading.

The F Word: How To Make Facilitation Facile Again for Executives & Their Teams
Do we really know how to engage people in a committed way to get results effortlessly? Or do we know more about how to get compliance. Check out these insights and you will soon be on your way to understanding the truth of group dynamics

Dropping the Ball

CEOs must take a more active role in the marketing of their business. More money is spent in this function without a thorough understanding of how or why B2B marketing really works than in any other business function. If the job of marketing is to create a strong environment for a sale to take place, then the CEO ought to be involved in the marketing process to give direction and guidelines that align with the corporate vision. Those CEOs who choose to ignore the complexities of marketing are dropping the ball.

Are You An Effective CEO?
This article provides advice an how to become an effective CEO.

CEOs who sell gain clarity on competitive strategy
CEOs of Nike, Intel and Sun are becoming more involved in the selling process, focusing on tailoring products and services to meet the demands of their top customers. And it's more than just a ceremonial visit. These CEOs are overcoming objections and negotiating deals, giving them an intimate understanding of market pain and the value they may (or may not) provide.

Building a better board
CEOs are advised to build better boards, but doing so is hard. Most plough the leader's lonely furrow and board building does not make the priority list. Other CEOs recognise the value and build better boards, which provide solid advice, facilitate business introductions and help raise funding.

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