Too Much Entrepreneurialism Can Be a Bad Thing
Startup companies that thrive react to a new market opportunity at lightning speed, long before big, established companies even recognize what’s happening.
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Want to Upgrade Your Business? Upgrade Your Leadership Team!
A maturing industry requires its leaders to act differently. As industry players grow larger to manage compliance burdens and to gain access to capital, leadership styles that worked in the past can become dysfunctional.
Directors and Boards
Directors & Boards has excerpted part of Rob’s new book regarding Tolerating Dysfunctional Leaders in their Thought Leadership section of their Q4 2014 publication. “From a roundup of new books, insights on mentorship, executive team under-performance, enduring traits, director interlocks, doing an IPO . . . and the value of your non-customers” they included Rob’s newest book.
Why A Strong External Bench Of Executive Talent Is As Crucial As An Internal One
Nearly every midsized company talks about the need to build a strong bench of internal candidates for the top management team. I agree: nothing is better than home-grown talent. However, sometimes a candidate isn’t ready to be promoted and the company simply cannot wait. In those cases, recruiting is the only option but that alternative can be rife with risk.
National Mortgage News
National Mortgage News has printed an article Why Mortgage Entrepreneurs Can Struggle After a Startup Succeeds. ” A company’s evolution from startup to established business is a complex transition that requires executives to have a wide array of leadership skills,” writes Brad Finkelstein, after an interview with Rob Sher. Click the article title, to read the article in its entirety.
Private Company Boards: Powerful or Painful?
Many closely held companies don’t have a functioning board at all. Investor-backed private companies usually have boards, but many are dysfunctional, neither helping management perform at higher levels nor managing risk.
Detecting And Surviving Seven Silent Growth Killers
Most midsized company leaders want their businesses to become mighty growth machines. Unfortunately, sometimes that growth slows, stops, or goes the other way, and their leaders don’t know why. Is it the market? Is it the product? Is it the leadership team? Is it something he or she has done wrong – an ill-conceived deal; an unrealistic strategy?
Fire Well: How To Avoid Wrongful Termination And Employment Discrimination Lawsuits
Become a pro at firing executives. You won’t brag about it at parties, but your company will be stronger and wealthier for it!
American Express Open Forum
American Express has an Open Forum online column, which speaks to leadership for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Each month a new business book is chosen, and its author is interviewed. This month Robert was privileged to be highlighted in an article entitled Midsize Me: How to Grow Your Small Business to the Next Level. Enjoy this read and don’t forget to comment online or tweet about it. Keep the conversations going and keep your businesses growing!
Marketing Thought Leadership Podcast
How Marketing Helps Midsized Companies Get Mighty is the topic Robert Sher undertakes in this Marketing Thought Leadership Podcast. In this interview with Linda Popky, Rob talks about the biggest mistakes he sees marketing leaders at midsize companies make. He discusses the role of marketing in reducing the risk of fumbled acquisitions, as well as how creativity and discipline can coexist effectively.
Listen to the entire podcast here.
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).