Fact finding and data analysis are essential tools, but you don’t want your team to do double the research needed to “be sure”. That’s obsession. You also don’t want them to slack off in critical areas. That’s foolish. Here are some suggestions on where to draw the line.
Do you have capable managers on your top team? That won’t be enough. Managers like/need to be told what to do. Leaders (executives) create momentum on their own, making decisions as needed to achieve an objective. Collecting and growing an excellent leadership team is one of the most critical aspects of a CEO’s job.
Can your team keep up if you ask them to tackle new challenges without giving them new resources to offload other tasks? Here are the key steps to moving a team through a detailed, integrated project planning process.
Team fatigue doesn’t just happen in economic downturns. Many businesses face this even in good times. When objectives are missed and the going becomes tough and slow, how do we get our team to charge ahead?
Being a leader puts you in a powerful position to get more accomplished than doing it alone. But the transmission of that power is team communication. Without systematic and regular communication, you’re demoting yourself from leader to worker.
CEOs sometimes suffer from insomnia, worrying about the future of their companies. As the bus rolls along, are some of the wheels coming loose? While you’re lying awake at night, ask yourself these key questions.
You should be able to rely on your top team members, but how do you know that the executives you’ve hired really are competent? Learn how to prevent last-minute surprises, and what could happen if you don’t.
Winning is business is much better than just surviving. But does your business have the right to win? Here are some key attributes behind winning and ways to evaluate whether your business is on the right road.
The CEO leads and their underlings serve them. Or at least, that’s the traditional business paradigm. Back in 1982, Robert Greenleaf wrote a book that turned this structure on its head.
Branding your marketing vision is a great way to get your team behind a common goal. Here are some guidelines for turning work into passion.
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).