Guest post by GinaRose Kimball, Director of Administration, Catapult Groups As the Director of Administration for Catapult Groups, I’m responsible for a wide array of duties—everything from collecting competitive bids on major projects to booking venues and speakers for Catapult Groups meetings. Every day action must be taken in...
Guest post by Fred Kroin, Catapult Groups Leader CEOs and business owners are among the most time-challenged men and women I know. More often than not, they fall into the trap of spending time doing things they shouldn’t be doing. As a result, 50-, 60- and...
Growing a CEO's business with education provided by our coaching and peer group programs is a core benefit of Catapult Groups. Would you expect your personal physician to stop learning about changes in medicine the day after he or she completes medical school? Would you hire an...
Guest post by Doug Beckley, Group Leader for Catapult Groups As a Catapult Group Leader and management consultant, a major focus of my work is helping business leaders get serious when selecting and hiring good people. Lazy and shortsighted hiring processes that prevent business from effectively...
CEOs and business owners who have never participated in a peer group advisory meeting are naturally apprehensive about what goes on. They always want to know—how can this help my business? How can I afford to spend a full day away from my business? For More...
From time to time, we invite Catapult Group Leaders and speakers to contribute to our blog. Here, new Group Leader Fred Kroin, based in Phoenix, Arizona, shares his thoughts on how to make sure you have the right people on your team—and jettison the rest. Throughout...
CEOs and business owners who learn about CEO peer advisory groups like Catapult Groups acknowledge that there’s value in sharing experiences and learning from one another, but they frequently balk at the one-day-a-month peer group meeting schedule. In this interview, Brad Mishlove, CEO of Catapult...
When it comes to that all-important moment when your customer (or prospective customer) decides to purchase your product or service, what used to be a fairly simple decision has become a lot more complicated. Today we live in a world where everyone has access to...
A rainmaker is someone who generates revenue for the business, and what could be more important than that? Yet time and again, I see many CEOs and business owners getting focused on other things, which despite being important as well, don't figure as a strategic role in...
It may seem at times that we live in a world dominated by big companies. The conventional wisdom holds that they have too many resources, too much reach and too strong a reputation to mess with. But in fact, these larger firms are easy to...