In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The answer lies within those factors that do not require fat bank accounts. The very best strategies aren’t generated by outside strategic planning consultants who bill thousands of dollars a day. That doesn’t meant they can’t be strategically powerful. There are far more than you think. I’ll start with leadership.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Accounting firm utilization plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Banking and investing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Time magazine may have called it “the most boring bank in the world,” but after the crisis, its conservative approach is looking more appealing than ever; it is a brand that played it smart and safe.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The days of leading countries or companies via a one-way conversation are over, as Netflix’s one-way conversation with customers on prices, Bank of America’s one-way conversation on debit fees and Verizon’s one-way conversation on an e-billing surcharge recently demonstrated.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This book will explore how our institutional leaders can make claim once again to ethical, fair, and purposeful practices that underscore the value of human beings as the linchpins of our society. For example, Discover Bank held monthly meetings of all staff by location and shift.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In eras following downturns and scandals, it is incumbent upon good companies to go the extra distance to be ethical and set good examples. No matter the size of the organization, goodwill must be banked. Demonstrating visible caring for communities by company executives is the ultimate form of potlache. by Hank Moore.

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