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Not All CEOs are Greedy
CEOs of publicly traded companies make on average 370 times what the employees make. As the march of corporate leaders going to jail continues, there’s no wonder that skepticism and distrust about leaders in business abound.
 
Balance is an Illusion
In our book, CEO Road Rules: Right Focus, Right People, Right Execution, we interviewed over 50 CEOs of primarily privately companies. What we discovered was that for many, building a company together with a team of people was mentioned as one of the grea
 
Matrix Organizations and the Challenge of Managing
When complex projects, programs and processes become the way of life for a business, determining the “right structure” is a priority. Usually the structure of choice for complex project driven businesses is a matrix.
 
Stages of Change
People and organizations change when they can see the truth in something and it influences their feelings. Despite this important finding from research on over 130 companies (The Heart of Change, John Kotter, 2002), we continue to initiate change efforts
 
Inside Out Branding
Creating a brand is about living the promise you are making to your customers in a distinct way, consistently. Building a brand can translate into big rewards in mounting customer loyalty and increasing assets. For example, Interbrand Magazine assessed
 
Developing Leadership Capacity
Leadership involves inspiring people and organizations to develop the capacity to create the futures they desire. This often means leaders are called upon to stimulate significant changes in human systems, which invariably require changes in individual
 
Fire the Donald
In this time of reality shows, survival of the fittest is heralded as the ultimate success. Be it “Survivor,” “The Bachelor” or some knock off, competition is critical to the plot and if you don’t beat out those around you, you’re the loser. “The Apprenti
 
What Animals Teach Us
As the towers shook on the morning of September 11, thousands of people – some co-workers and some strangers – instinctively attempted to make their way down the many flights of stairs. Those who were able-bodied lifted the feeble ones to safety. In one o
 
The Entrepreneurial Wisdom of Cats
If you think cats are nothing more than adorable and sometimes spoiled family pets, think again. They're also some of the greatest business teachers around. In fact, those successful entrepreneurs who seem to "have it all" often share some common characte
 
What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Cats
• Technology offers new options to ferret out more information than ever before. • Cats delight in their own independence, and so should you in yours
 
See the Old as New
All of us get into a rut from time to time. Often, it's the competition or changes in our marketplace that force us to adapt or shift our ways of thinking. Anyone just starting to conduct business on the Internet can attest to this. Pressure to change i
 
Making Misfits Fit
Is it a marriage of the misfits? That's the big question on Wall Street since Morgan Stanley, an investment banking firm with a corporate client focus, and Dean Witter, Discover & Co., a brokerage firm made up of small investors, decided to tie the knot