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Exit of Facebook’s Alex Stamos a Sign of Healthy Leadership
The noisy exit of Alex Stamos from Facebook is not dysfunction. It is a healthy process of holding all leadership team members accountable to supporting the company’s decisions, even if they disagree. READ MORE >
How To Avoid The Root Cause of Customer Experience Meltdowns
In order for growing midsized companies to avoid a customer experience meltdown, their leadership must plan and build leadership infrastructure. Without leadership infrastructure, growing companies can be victimized by their own success.
How Federal Corporate Tax Reform Impacts the Enterprise Value of Midsized Companies
by Glenn Fishler, CEO to CEO Principal
I was CEO of a privately held B2B professional services company for 15 years before we put the company to the market and sold the firm to a strategic buyer in 2015. When the company was founded in 1990, our vision was to build and run the business with the intention of someday creating a liquidity event for the shareholders.
CEO to CEO Welcomes Glenn Fishler
CEO to CEO is delighted to announce that Glenn Fishler has joined our team as a Principal, where he will advise CEOs of midsized companies on “all things CEO.”
Outsourcing Can Bedevil Midsized Companies
When a company grows to midsize, it often grows faster than its partners and suppliers, and fails to adjust its outsourcing processes to its growing needs. Here are four simple steps midsized companies can take to manage vendors.
Why the Best Leaders of Midsized Firms Constantly Ask Their People “How Can I Improve?”
When moving up from executing tasks to managing others, leaders find themselves one step away from “the action” and risk becoming detached. Unless they get regular, honest feedback from their followers about their abilities as managers, leaders can’t expect to become stronger leaders.
How to Make Your Peers Accountable When Your Boss Won’t
Not holding teams accountable can stall strategic initiatives, produce backstabbing and even sabotage, and lead to the exit of talented and motivated executives. Here’s how you can introduce accountability in the workplace.
How To Avoid Throttling Your Startup’s Growth And The Burnout That Comes Next
New businesses that tap into large and severely under-met needs are destined to grow rapidly. But if the founders starve the company of capital, their conservativism eventually will kill growth. Even more important, it will burn out the founders.
How CEOs Can Stop Vacillating Between Fear And Euphoria
Indecisive CEOs of midsized businesses squelch the decision-making latitude of their leadership teams, who in turn go back to their “wait for the CEO to decide” mode — a sure growth killer.
The Perils of Using Dashboards to Drive a Company
IT “dashboards” can be highly seductive to CEOs, but they can’t replace good old-fashioned management techniques.
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).