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Posts Tagged ‘emotional intelligence’
Learning From Ballmer’s Exit: How CEOs Can Know When It’s Time To Go
There are times when a CEO should step down and replace himself. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft is doing just that. I’m a big believer in CEOs. They can do great things, and can adapt amazingly—if they have the energy and choose to change. My work is all about helping CEOs step up their game. But many CEOs, usually in tough times, wonder if they should hang it up.
Business Leadership Lessons from Obama and Romney
Hard fought battles in politics and business leave people bitter and angry at those who opposed their view. That’s bad for business.
Not unlike Obama and Romney, we business leaders must keep leading even after the battle is over. Our job: to rebuild an environment of mutual respect–even between companies.
Legal Lessons for Mid-Sized Firms from the Apple-Samsung Patent War
Justice is generally NOT served when a big company does battle with a middle market company. Legal fees can crush the mid-market company long before any “just” outcome occurs. To a mid-market firm, the risks of waging legal war with a big firm can be enormous.
Why You Need Dissatisfied Employees
Olympic athletes are NOT satisfied until they win their medal, so they work like crazy before competing. My newest Forbes.com post asserts that dissatisfied employees are essential. Not dissatisfied with their boss, their company or their job, but dissatisfied with the level of progress toward their goals. It lays out five key elements to keeping them in a healthy state of dissatisfaction.
The Case for Stack Ranking of Employees
Increasing performance, reviewing performance, and rewarding performance are tough subjects that must be handled skillfully. Microsoft’s stack ranking of employees has been a topic of a number of posts recently that isn’t working out too well when it comes to their employees’ innovation. So how does the middle market company practice these evaluative techniques without alienating their employees or stifling the essential creativity necessary for growth?
Believe It or Not, Some CEOs are Underpaid
Far from the popular demonizing of CEOs as arrogant and greedy, too many mid-market CEOs actually think too little of themselves. They do not require their executive teams, business partners and boards to treat them with respect.
Board Benefits – ISSI
Ceil McCloy, CEO and her husband Dave Dobson, Co-Founder of Integrated Science Solutions, Inc. (ISSI), brought in outside board members as a strategic decision. Often businesses pay only lip service to their Board, just barely fulfilling legal requirements. But bolstering the Board’s role in oversight of your business can be very beneficial, as it has for ISSI.
The Unpredictable CEO’s Destruction of their Senior Leaders
What a waste when bright, competent senior leaders who report to the CEO hang back, and fail to lead their company assertively. When they tiptoe around the CEO and wait for permission to take charge.
Necessary Roughness
Nobody wants to start a fight. Yet in many cases “playing nice” is uncalled for and may indeed hurt your business. Ask yourself these twelve questions before you cross the line.
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).