Best Practices Illustrations
Attracting and Retaining the Optimal Team – Hanson Bridgett
How can you make your workplace different in a way that will attract the highly skilled people you need most? Andrew Giacomini, Managing Partner at Hanson Bridgett, shows how an enlightened approach to team culture makes a law firm stand out.
Keeping Control of the Top Team
Lead executives should stay loyal to the company, not create fiefdoms of their own. Here’s how one CEO dealt with an empire-builder on his own top team.
Standing Out from the Crowd – Groco
People like to do business with other people, not with organizations. Alan Olsen, CEO of Groco, shows us how unusual marketing tactics can generate unusual results and help you stand out from the crowd.
Keys to Choosing Corporate Partners – Aradigm
Partnerships between two firms are often difficult to manage and often fail to bring results. This essay digs into one of the more extreme partnerships and how it was made to work with Igor Gonda, CEO of Aradigm Corporation (OTCBB:ARDM), a life sciences firm.
The Convergence of Business Discipline and Vision – TEECOM
Entrepreneurial vision can translate into business success. Cecilia Trost and David Marks of TEECOM demonstrate how discipline and organization can transform potential into performance.
The New CEO as a Change Agent – Paradigm
When the CEO is the new hire in an existing company, he or she needs to be the architect of a well-thought out plan to produce the best possible results. Here’s how Bob Fahlman, CEO of Paradigm, did just that.
Keeping Your Team Focused on Your Value-Creation Strategy – ServePath
Too many entrepreneurs focus on the controllable risks, figuring that’s all they can manage. But John Keagy, CEO of ServePath, shows us how to focus on creating value while factoring in the uncontrollable risk: market acceptance.
Choosing Relationships over Meteoric Growth – ProTrials
CEO Jodi Andrews and her co-founder and President Inger Arum of ProTrials got a great offer from a big client, enough to make any business owner happy. They turned down the opportunity. Not all that glitters is gold, and some factors that override financial success.
Creating and Owning a Category – Intelleflex
Richard Bravman, CEO of Intelleflex, helped build his last company from a four person team to a 1.7 billion dollar firm. The trick: He works to build companies that innovate to create entirely new product categories in which they take commanding market share leadership.
Make Big Innovation Your Strategy – 247 Workspace
Leaping ahead in the business world takes more than courage. Learn how one business leader – Mark Denham of 247 Workspace – came up with a new game plan.
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).