The company needs to grow, to change, to move. There is an opportunity, a risk, an idea. Leadership sees it clearly, but the teams won’t progress fast enough. When the challenge is set out, they find obstacles, not solutions. They focus on immediate issues but not the innovation. The pace is slow, results don’t come. The teams simply do not rise to the challenge. Where’s the urgency?
In this episode, Rob Sher talks about his history as a CEO and subsequent shift to consulting directly for other CEOs. He shares wisdom from his book Mighty Midsized Companies, and Jeff Hunt and Rob discuss two challenging “silent growth killers” as referenced in the book and why midsized companies are especially vulnerable to these if they are not addressed.
Tune in as Robert talks about the successful leadership traits and skills of CEOs of midsized companies.
With today’s coronavirus crisis, standing in front of your team is not only nearly impossible, but also unsafe. But your team needs to hear from the leader and video is a great substitute. Here are some simple steps to leading with video.
In the second week of a flash survey of San Francisco Bay Area CEOs, those reporting negative impacts grew from 75% to 79%.
In a flash survey of San Francisco Bay Area CEOs taken on March 19, just a few days after the USA’s first shelter-in-place order, 75% of the CEOs report negative impacts while 9% are being positively impacted. Collectively, they believe it will be 4.9 months before we return to “normalcy.”
As most CEOs are executing their plans to keep their people safe, we must also lay plans to keep our businesses alive so when normalcy returns our people will have jobs to return to and our customers will be able to depend on us.
Leaders of midsized businesses have a crucial role to play in leading their employees through the coronavirus crisis.
Elon Musk is making the same mistake that thousands of founders of midsized companies make. Trying to scale without enough leaders. This post outlines why such brilliant founders make the same mistake, and what to do about it.
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.
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).