360 Posts found for Source: CEO Refresher

The world has a way, not only of stepping aside for men or women who know where they are going, but it often joins and helps them reach their objective.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Goals, Success / Failure

Information should not be plentiful or easy to share. Information sharing that makes data readily available is more of a curse than a cure. A manager’s biggest decision will be rationing scarce attention. New information technologies that help filter and redirect e-mail and telephone calls can certainly help, but ultimately management decision-making is all about setting priorities. Good managers tend to want to identify and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Information

With literally billions of dollars spent on training, why is it not more effective in changing organizations’ practices? Why are training departments becoming today’s “usual suspects?”

Content: Article | Author: Abhay Padgaonkar | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Human Resources | Industry: Education / Training

Without mission, there’s no purpose. Without vision, there’s no destination. Without values, there are no guiding principles.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Mission, Values

If you are less successful at work than you could be, you might be your own worst enemy for being too individualistic.

Content: Article | Author: Mitch McCrimmon, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

So it is said that when you know yourself and others, victory is not in danger.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Success / Failure

Even the most sophisticated professionals get caught in the presentation trap. They spend an inordinate amount of time preparing for a razzle-dazzle presentation and often lose sight of the issues at hand.

Content: Article | Author: Jeff Thull | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Did you ever sit in the board meeting and watch the CEO’s facial expressions, imagining what he was thinking? You’re sure that he, along with every other CEO, would just as soon not have to spend the time dealing with a board. But he is savvy enough to mask such sentiments. Here is what we hear CEOs say behind the scenes. During their confidential conversations, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Lana J. Furr, Richard M. Furr, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Corporate Governance

Using these seven essential skills, leadership is not restricted to positions of authority or stature and can, in fact, be practiced by individuals acting within their sphere of influence without being labeled as leaders.

Content: Article | Author: Peter J. Dean | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Leadership

Is one of the goals of your business-to-business advertising sales leads generation for your salespeople, representatives, distributors or resellers? Consider these proven B2B sales leads generation techniques gleaned from working with over 170 companies and some of the best marketers in the business.

Content: Article | Author: M. H. “Mac” McIntosh | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Advertising, Marketing / Sales | Industry: Advertising

When you follow the conventional sales process in a complex sale, you run head first into a series of traps that grow progressively more difficult to avoid and that make a positive outcome for the sale ever less likely.

Content: Article | Author: Jeff Thull | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Marketing / Sales

This article is about the time proven principles for creating luxury brands in order to attract affluents.

Content: Article | Author: Dan Herman, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Resistance to change is one of the most powerful drivers of human behavior, and the key to dealing with it effectively is to understand both its physical and emotional components.

Content: Article | Author: Anne Riches | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

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Our brains are hard wired to do three things: match patterns, resist or fight any threats to survival, and respond first with emotion over logic.

…Unless an organization accepts and addresses this reality, managing change with an emphasis on logic not emotion will not diminish resistance to organizational change.

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

Strategic Thinking is about the “What” and the “Why”, that is what should we be doing and why, otherwise known as strategy. Strategic Planning considers the “How” and “When”, but at a very high level. Operational or Tactical Planning concerns itself with the specifics of how and when.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Strategy

What the people of an organization want from their leader are answers to the following: Where are we going? How are we going to get there? What is my role? The more clarity that can be added to each of the three questions, the better the result.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

In various wisdom traditions, the lists of traits or principles may differ somewhat, but the underlying intentions are very similar. The very practice of cultivating these traits yields not only results that affect those around one, but also imbues one’s very life with a greater degree of meaning and satisfaction.

In Buddhism, these are sometimes referred to as “the paramitas of the bodhisattva” or “the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jamie S. Walters | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

When you look at the productivity vs. activity scale, most of the things on your desk, in your files, and in your mail are activity, not productivity. As a blind person, I am fortunate enough to have people who take volumes of printed material and reduce them to the items that I have determined to be productive. If you can do this in your work … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Information, Productivity / Work Tips

When you look at your personal and professional life, the most important decisions you will make revolve around how you invest your effort, time, and energy. There are only two things you can do with your time. You can spend your time in activity or productivity. Activities are things that consume minutes and hours and get you no closer to your goals and objectives. Productivity … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips