Functional Areas Not Synchronized
There are many ways that organizations can stumble when functional areas aren’t synchronized. Here are some of the problems that may arise and five strategies for mitigation.
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Debates Without Decisions
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.
Recruiting the Right Executives
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.
Eager and Able Leadership Team Essential
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.
Encouraging Hidden Leaders
Hidden leaders can appear anywhere in your life, whether business or personal. Here’s a story of one person who might have been low on the social ladder, but who touched people’s hearts in a big way.
Rejuvenating Fatigued Leadership Teams
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?
Connecting with your Team
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.
Keeping Control of the Top Team
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.
The New CEO as a Change Agent – Paradigm
When the CEO is the new hire in an existing company, he or she needs to be the architect of a well-thought out plan to produce the best possible results. Here’s how Bob Fahlman, CEO of Paradigm, did just that.
The Wheels on the Bus Can Come Off
CEOs sometimes suffer from insomnia, worrying about the future of their companies. As the bus rolls along, are some of the wheels coming loose? While you’re lying awake at night, ask yourself these key questions.
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).