Many executives and companies have a built in limiting factor, just like the governor on a gas pedal.  Here’s how you can prevent micro-management at the highest levels from stifling your growth.

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Loyalty to your employees is admirable, particularly when they’ve served the company well. But what happens when their performance slips? Do you have the toughness to put company loyalty first?

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Debates are necessary tools, but ultimately decisions must be made.  Debates without decisions send your team round and round in circles. Here are the three most common manifestations of this distraction and four strategies for mitigation.

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One of the CEO’s most important tasks is recruiting and maintaining an all-star top team. Here are my key strategies for finding the right executives to move your company forward.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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It’s time for all us CEOs to begin practicing the skills of managing in a rebounding economy. Not that all of us are out of practice; companies rebound in all sorts of economic conditions. And companies go through their own personal “downturns” all the time–even in a strong economy.

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As leaders, we get our most important work done through others. The executive composer is writing the music for many compositions simultaneously, and watching them play out every day. Here are seven commonalities that can help the executive communicator get better results in all areas.

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Lead executives should stay loyal to the company, not create fiefdoms of their own. Here’s how one CEO dealt with an empire-builder on his own top team.

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