Speeches & Presentations
Webinar: How Midsized Firms Can Avoid Deadly Lethargy
Wednesday, October 26, 2016. 10:00am – 11:00am PST. A Mighty Webinar.
Midsized companies with laser market focus and rapid execution capabilities can outrun bigger and smaller foes alike. Yet many midsized firms bog down, with projects taking months longer than planned, teams that get more excited about the free lunch than delivering high performance and confusion grips the firm at many levels.
Webinar: Avoiding the Seven Silent Growth Killers: Building Leadership Infrastructure
Wednesday, September 21, 2016. 10:00am – 11:00am PST. A Mighty Webinar.
Growing companies can be victims of their own success. When they get the growth they so desperately seek, they may just as quickly outgrow their leadership infrastructure, rendering the business chaotic and inefficient.
Webinar: Keeping Rocketing Growth From Spiraling Out of Control
Wednesday, May 4, 2016. 10:00am – 11:00am PST. A Mighty Webinar.
Many founders, entrepreneurs and business executives dream of leading a high-growth company. Then they get the chance, and as the rocket passes Mach 2, they notice the tiles cracking and falling off the rocket, and the ship starts shaking. Uh-oh.
Leading a high-growth company into and through midsized is both exciting and difficult; it is full of risk. This talk, drawn from four of the chapters of the speaker’s book, Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers, explains how to avoid the growth impediments that can bring down these firms in painful, awful spectacles.
How Midsized Companies Can Create a Dream Leadership Team
Wednesday, March 23, 2016. 10:00am – 11:00am PST. A Mighty Webinar.
At the core of the most successful midsized companies is a stellar leadership team. With such a “dream team” in place, a midsized firm can deliver profitable growth, year after year, in good times and bad. However, when even one member of the team is dysfunctional, a midsized company can’t hope to have a dream team. They don’t have the luxury of a large leadership team to support weak links in the executive chain. This presentation drawn from four of the chapters of the speaker’s book, Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers.
Webinar: Bridging the Chasm Between the Strategic Plan and the Budget
Wednesday, January 27, 2016. 10:00am – 11:00am PST. A Mighty Webinar.
Many companies capture their strategies in a strategic plan and develop a budget for where the money should go. But sometimes during the year it’s not invested in the business at all, and sits in the bank, idle. Other times, it gets mis-directed. Having a strategy and a budget isn’t enough—there is a gap.
Winning the Talent War
Tuesday, December 8, 2015. San Francisco, CA. Robert Half Management Resources. Winning the Talent War.
How can companies in the Bay area compete for limited human resources? How can they attract and hire prime candidates when mega companies with deep pockets in their neighborhood can easily outbid them for those leading candidates?
FEI Group Hosts Mighty Event
Wednesday, October 28, 2015. Tucson, AZ. FEI Group.
Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers
This is an industry conference for the nation’s largest and finest network of interior finish contractors and industry showrooms. FEI Group is the leader in providing programs and services to independent business owners looking to leverage the power of the group to better serve their customers.
FEI Sacramento – Professional Development
Tuesday, October 20, 2015. Sacramento, CA. Financial Executives International. Professional Development Class.
Many companies capture their strategies in a strategic plan and develop a budget for where the money should go. But sometimes during the year it’s not invested in the business at all, and sits in the bank, idle. Other times, it gets mis-directed. Having a strategy and a budget isn’t enough—there is a gap.
Bridging the Chasm between the Strategic Plan and the Budget
Thursday, October 8, 2015. San Francisco, CA. Bay Area Financial Officers Group.
Many companies capture their strategies in a strategic plan and develop a budget for where the money should go. But sometimes during the year it’s not invested in the business at all, and sits in the bank, idle. Other times, it gets mis-directed. Having a strategy and a budget isn’t enough—there is a gap.
FEI Los Angeles Hosts Mighty Event
Thursday, November 19, 2015. Los Angeles, CA. Financial Executives International.
Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers
For an executive team, the excitement of leading a steadily or rapidly growing midsized firm can be exhilarating – that is, until growth grinds down to a halt. In this presentation, Robert Sher explores based on his years of research on more than 100 companies how seven silent growth killers have derailed midsized firms. He then shows how executives can overcome or avoid them altogether.
Robert Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He was chief executive of Bentley Publishing Group from 1984 to 2006 and steered the firm to become a leading player in its industry (decorative art publishing).