CEO Insider
JUNE 6, 2023
During my CEO Group workshops, I often ask the members to pair off and thumb-wrestle one another. I tell them that the CEO who gets the most pins in thirty seconds will win a fictional $100,000. After thirty seconds, I asked each pair who got the most pins.
CEO Insider
OCTOBER 18, 2023
One of my coaching clients is an entrepreneur whose business looks great on paper. In year 2–3, she had made a whopping 83% profit. Everything seemed to be going perfectly. Yet, when we took what I call a “strategic pause” to review her goals, I noted that personally, she wasn’t doing great.
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CEO Insider
JULY 30, 2023
“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology, not the other way around.” – Steve Jobs How very true and seemingly evident Steve Job’s observation is.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. Most of the input was neutral, which was to be expected.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 31, 2017
Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. This makes it difficult to justify investment in change management with the rigor that a data-driven CEO or CFO might expect.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 24, 2014
Barksdale was the veteran of IBM, FedEx and AT&T Wireless (he mostly worked at it when it was called McCaw Cellular) who was brought on a few months after Netscape’s founding to provide adult supervision as its CEO. Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.”
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