360 Posts found for Source: CEO Refresher

Understanding the tendency to resist can be the first step in more effectively giving and receiving feedback.

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Part 2: Delivering the Message
Part 3: Getting the Message

Content: Article | Authors: Gary R. Casselman, Ph.D., Timothy C. Daughtry, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

The new accountability reflects the new reality…a world that is changing rapidly, where information moves at lightning speed, where shared knowledge and wisdom are the true drivers of success, and where cause and effect is not what we think it is.

Content: Article | Author: Brian Ward | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

To have hope, one doesn’t need certainty, only possibility.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Personality / Behavior

Ethics investigations can be quite complex and fraught with potential risks. Taking care with them will allow the company to avoid pitfalls in both a legal and human sense.

Content: Article | Author: Bruce A. Hamm | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Ethics

Your brand is the identity of your enterprise. Ideally, your brand defines the value proposition offering to your customers. When consumers use your product or service, it’s your identity that becomes linked with their positive or negative experience. This paper suggests that thought partnerships are the foundation that forms the organizational capability for achieving brand promise.

Content: Article | Authors: Daniel D. Elash, Ph.D., James R. Long, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management

Front-line level employees with any company tend to be in a very good position to observe the good behaviors and the not-so-good behaviors of their leaders. Consider this to be a view from the flip side!

Content: Article | Author: Lori Richmond | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Efficient capital markets require that companies that have raised money in the capital markets must file detailed, timely and sometimes intimate information with regulators. These filings are open for everyone – not only investors in the company. Prior to the www, these filings were available to the public, but the means for everyone to access this information easily was not available. The free flow of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Samuel Dergel | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Finance

More effective supply chain management must become an integral part of your competitive and survival strategy – the prerequisites of success.

Content: Article | Author: R. Michael Donovan | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Operations

Fashion, it must be said, does not thrive just on the runways of Paris. It’s alive and well, for better or worse, in the boardrooms, executive suites and business think tanks of the world.

Content: Article | Authors: Bob Ferchat, Tony Carlson | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Trends / Analysis

Preparing for a speech – whether a keynote address, panel discussion, interview with the media, or presentation to the board of directors – can be done in five systematic steps.

Content: Article | Author: Gayle Brickman | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Personal Development

Perhaps our communications problems lie not in “how” we communicate, but rather in “what” we communicate. Use information to create value for your customers.

Content: Article | Authors: Michele Richards, Rick Tate | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Customer Related, Management

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Your career is a big investment. Career choices affect you every working day. When you invest in yourself through networking, utilizing mentors and self-promotion you will generate a robust return. You’ll achieve your career goals.

Content: Article | Author: Paul B. Thornton | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Career

Robert Delaney has been an international diplomat and an officer in the US Navy. He has served as assistant director of the US Information Agency in Washington and been an international consultant and advisor to the Departments of Defense and Transportation, NASA, and major corporations. He currently conducts workshops for government officials and corporate managers on how to survive in Washington and how to deal … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Management

Business ethics are about the morally functional nature of our business relationships. Because these relationships are such an important part of daily life, giving them the attention and care they deserve is crucial to an organization’s success.

Content: Article | Author: Bruce A. Hamm | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Ethics

Hammered by competitive thrusts and pressured by customer demands for lower prices, companies are increasingly finding prices in a downward spiral. But price problems are rarely pricing problems! Value pricing provides the alternative!

Content: Article | Author: George E. Cressman Jr. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Pricing

We think, and with those thoughts, we create. We create the world we live in … We harvest in life, only and exactly, what we sow in our minds.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Life, Personality / Behavior

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves. Nearly every psychological problem – from anxiety and depression to self-sabotage at work or at school, from fear of intimacy to chronic hostility – is traceable to low self-esteem. In the chaotic and competitive world we face today, both personal happiness and economic survival rest on … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Sources: CEO Refresher, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem | Subject: Personality / Behavior

A look at 7 points to consider in setting the stage for effective team-work as outlined originally by Organization Development pioneer Richard Beckard.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Project Management

Do you (or your company) deserve the loyalty of customers, employees, partners and shareowners? Think about your answer from their perspective.

Content: Article | Author: Steven C. Coats | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Management