360 Posts found for Source: CEO Refresher

Warriors are often angry people. Their anger is forceful disapproval of lies told, trust betrayed, innocence violated, reality denied, power abused, and incompetence rewarded. They don’t turn indifferent or deny their anger and become sadistic and abusive. True warriors engage their anger and use its energy to empower themselves and free others.

Warriors identify with life itself, and their honor brings forth courageous actions. The power … [ Read more ]

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

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

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

Hope…is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how … [ Read more ]

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

It’s one thing to aspire to please and play by the rules. It’s another thing altogether to aspire to shake things up and be an agent of change. To effect change on a wide scale, women must leverage their resolve, their internal wisdom, their authentic voice

Content: Article | Author: Linda Dunkel | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Women in Business

From my experiences in delivering over l500 speeches during the past 20 years, here is a quick guide to giving an effective and interesting presentation your very first time.

Content: Article | Author: Stephen D. Boyd, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Personal Development

Whether you are conducting a one-on-one interview, motivating your sales team or delivering a keynote address, your success as a leader is defined by your ability to persuade with clarity and passion.

Content: Article | Author: John Boe | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personal Development

Edwin C. Bliss’ book was first published in 1976, and was updated in 1993. His ABCs are ‘right on’ and provide ways to better manage our precious time. By using the tools in this book, they will help improve performance and get the right things done.

Content: Article | Author: Cam Howey | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

All individuals, communities, systems, and other business assets are massively interconnected in an evolving economic ecosystem. In such a connected system we can no longer focus on the performance of individual actors — we must manage connected assets.

Content: Article | Author: Valdis Krebs | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

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We have heard it said a thousand times that “practice makes perfect.” As well-meaning as whoever told you this might have been, they were wrong. Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes consistent. Perfect practice makes perfect. Mediocre practice makes mediocrity.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Preparation

In the final analysis, when we fail it is not from lack of knowledge. It is, instead, from lack of wisdom to apply the things we already know. We don’t fail because we don’t know what to do. We fail because we don’t do what we know.

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

What do Benjamin Franklin, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Thomas Edison, William Shakespeare, Osama bin Laden, and every other historical or famous person you have ever heard of have in common? Every famous or infamous person that has come to historical prominence is known for either solving or creating problems.

Remember, your friends, your family, and history itself will not remember you for the problems … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Problems / Solutions

Leadership and management are two discernible and complementary activities. Both are necessary for success in increasingly complex and challenging military and business environments.

Content: Article | Author: Mark V. Eberhard | Sources: CEO Refresher, USMCR | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Customer loyalty is often viewed in terms of the strength of the relationship that a brand enjoys with the customer. This is definitely true in mass markets, now termed B2C. However, in the B2B space there is another component that is equally important and that is the relationship between the people involved in the transaction.

Content: Article | Author: N. Ramasubramani | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales

Jim Stovall contemplates:
Training
When Life Defies Definition
Knowledge and Wisdom
The Prominence of Problems

Content: Article | Author: Jim Stovall | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Miscellaneous

In highly effective companies there is a commitment to aligning stated beliefs with actual choices. In this article we’ll diagnose problems in the traditional planning process and recommend a positive approach that leaders can take to reduce the gap.

Content: Article | Author: Daniel D. Elash, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Strategy

People don’t trust you because they understand you – they trust you because you understand them.

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

The quality of an organization is directly linked to the quality of conversations of the people in that organization.

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

“The quality of an organization is directly linked to the quality of conversations of the people in that organization.”

Certain people really “get it” when you have a conversation with them. You feel like they really get you at the gut level, not just at the head level. You walk away from a conversation with them feeling deeply understood and valued. Get It! people have … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Brady Wilson | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

We view everyone else in light of their results but view ourselves based on our good intentions. If you can find a few people in your personal and professional life who will be honest with you about your own performance, you are, indeed, fortunate.

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