In the CEO Afterlife

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In Praise of the Fast Company

In the CEO Afterlife

For sure, in the tech world, it’s hard to imagine success without quick and continuous technology improvement. Whether you sell information or cremation, the common thread for success is sustaining an advantage. The most successful leaders, leverage ‘fast company’ cultures to achieve competitive advantage. What about your world?

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The Leadership Love-in

In the CEO Afterlife

Despite the proliferation of self-help books and success stories published by respected business journals, leadership performance remains weak. With their size and clout, one shakes the head in wonderment at their inability to find a great leader to set the company on the right course. Why the fascination with leadership?

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

There are plenty of well-known examples throughout the course of history; Aristotle mentored Alexander the Great, Laurence Olivier mentored Anthony Hopkins and Freddy Laker mentored Richard Branson.

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A Monster of an Idea

In the CEO Afterlife

Yet every so often, I come across a very successful exception to the rule. Of course the brand started with a monster of an idea – cool brand name – intrusive logo – defiant imagery. In most industries, creating scale and leveraging that scale is the key factor for success. That’s a monster of a return. ounce size.

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Work That Matters starts with Matters that Work

In the CEO Afterlife

Work that Matters is a key success factor for every business. But, as a concept it is no different than a long list of other key success factors that organizations strive to achieve. Of course, there’s a lot more to job satisfaction than these 5 core prerequisites.

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The Strategy of Hustle

In the CEO Afterlife

Successful private label manufacturers have been operating this way for years. They map a course of action and just do it. In short, they get things done by concentrating on the operational details and operating within a quick and nimble modus operandi. They don’t use their precious time to strategically hypothesize or intellectualize.

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Why Uncontrollable Factors are Norm to Great CEOs

In the CEO Afterlife

After that calamity, we altered our course to make the best of a difficult situation and always came out of the frost in much better shape than our competition. Today’s successful CEOs have little choice but to walk that talk. You do not throw your hands in the air and tell the shareholders to wait for prices to stabilize.

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