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.
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On October 25, 2014, 33voices is featuring a interview they had with Robert Sher. Won’t you listen and watch and share these with your cadre of business associates and friends?
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!
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.
Mighty Midsized Companies is highlighted in Investor’s Business Daily. They’re running it in the paper on Aug 20th and online for the next month. The headline, like my book, focuses on avoiding the impediments to growth. It’s a quick read with a few highlights from the book. Avoid Pitfalls On The Road To Boosting Your Business and keep it growing through its midsize company stage. John McGee and Robert Sher share experiences. Take a look, and please share it with others.
What kills growth inside middle-market firms? Join Jack Sweeney, co-host of CFO Thought Leader, as he interviews Robert Sher on details about his newest book Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers. Rob reveals the seven silent growth killers unique to midsize firms and explores some of the approaches CFOs can use to detect and overcome the organizational shortcomings that routinely prove fatal for growth.
Listen to the entire podcast here.
A dysfunctional leadership team will kill a midsized company’s growth. Even one subpar leader hurts, and hurts badly.
How many times have you seen midsized companies make a big bet and lose? It’s most painful to watch when it is reckless and avoidable.
The world is littered with the hollowed-out shells of firms that tried to do too much and spent too big trying to grow too fast. Many of those firms were midsize companies; they didn’t have the resources of the big firms to sustain setbacks, nor were they scrappy like most small companies, making do with the resources they had.
Kiss growth goodbye without processes. Truth be told, I get emotionally upset every time I see a firm with promising growth blow it due to poor processes.
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).