So you are in the C-Suite. You have a high-functioning leadership team, a great group of friends and a wonderfully understanding spouse. Awesome, but who do you talk to about the challenges you face running a business? One that truly understands the complexities of strategy,...
8 Tips for Effective Global Leadership Thanks to globalization and the digitalization of business, the days of “local” or even “national” business are past. Your business may cater predominantly to a target audience in a local community, but there’s no reason it has to be so...
To fix your company’s toxic culture, you must first identify what’s wrong. Some business leaders ignore signs of trouble because their attention is fixed elsewhere. Others willfully disregard the problem, hoping it will “fix itself.” But no company can thrive for long if it’s riddled...
People ask me why the Catapult process works so well. I typically tell them that it is a combination of things. First the three components: mastermind group, business education, and business coaching all contribute to the development of the chief executive. The mastermind process is critical...
You've heard the term "It's lonely at the top." But, you never really understood it until you ran your own business. Perhaps you built that business from the ground up and spent the early days with only a houseplant and Buddy, your faithful Golden Retriever...
Great leadership starts with mentorship. Mentoring comes through one-on-one meetings with your direct reports. My contention is you should meet at least once per month with each of your direct reports, and then each of your direct reports should meet with theirs, and so on. One-on-One...
You've been running your business for years now and things are going pretty well. Your P&L statements look good, your turnover is low, and your employees seem to be happy. Lately, though, you've been wondering if you could be doing even better. You've never had much...
Small businesses hunger to have a so-called “rockstar employee” in their ranks and a few manage to generate an entire team of high-performing individuals. But for many companies, several factors contribute to the lack of success in this arena. For one thing, employees often become disengaged...
The words that CEOs and business owners communicate to their stakeholders should always be carefully chosen, since their messages can impact a wide array of constituencies. But what some business leaders fail to understand is that their body language—the sum total of their posture, gestures...
You've got a new product or service to bring to market. You've been working on this for months. You've tested the market, reaching out to existing customers and potential customers to see how your new creation will be received. It's been so well received, that...