How the CFO Can Become the CEO’s Collaborator in Growth
I was walking through Atlanta airport returning from a client session when a CFO spotted me and told me about how he’d spurred growth in his firm.
Posts Tagged ‘leadership acumen’
How to Improve Your Business by Instituting a Simple 1-On-1 Meeting
I advise all my clients to follow this key success discipline that great managers routinely practice: They schedule a regular weekly 1 on 1 meeting with each of their direct reports.
How To Avoid Being George Zimmered Out Of Your Company
I’ll bet everyone who has dreams of being a CEO has empathy when a founder or CEO gets fired. That’s certainly how I felt when I heard the news of George Zimmer’s dismissal from The Men’s Warehouse.
Lapsed Deadlines: A Silent Growth Killer of Midsized Companies
Some companies let time slip away from them. The result is one missed deadline after another. CEOs must come down hard and enforce deadlines.
CFO & CEO: How to Avoid Organizational Mood Swings
CEOs and CFOs must deliver a carefully crafted duet when they communicate to the team, balancing optimistic messages and cautionary ones.
Why IBM CEO’s Public Spanking of the Sales Function Was the Right Move
Too many CEOs try so hard to avoid the old-style command and control, “Donald Trump” style of management that they just aren’t tough enough on poor performance. Last week IBM’s CEO publicly criticized her sales function, and I think she was right to do it.
Why Dictatorial CEOs Increasingly Put Their Companies at Risk (and What to Do About It)
All types of organizations watch high-potential employees walk out the door because their views aren’t heard. Even members of a top management team can flee to other organizations after too many instances in which the CEO discounted their ideas, unable to shake the command-and-control leadership style.
Lance Armstrong: A Positive Influence on Management?
There are thousands of Lance Armstrong-like people working in companies today. People who have a win at any cost approach, who poison teams, destroy a company’s sustainability and ultimately harm the company’s mission.
Is there a Lance Armstrong on your management team?
BIG Talk
Robert Sher’s Radio Interview on the “Think Bigger Radio Show” in October 2012, prompted this brief.
Please click here to read the flyer.
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.
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).