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Are you using “business” in a derogatory way?
I was in a meeting the other day and heard someone use a word in a way that I find very interesting: “Business.” I had asked a question and one of the other two participants responded with, “Let me...
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CEO Fail: Drop-In Carpet Bomber CEO
Does this CEO failure mode sound familiar? The Drop-In Carpet Bomber CEO is too busy most of the time to pay attention to the business, but then suddenly decides that things are not going well and...
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Elements of an Effective CEO Goals Management System
As I’ve written about before on this blog, one of the five responsibilities of a CEO is to deliver performance. However, some CEOs focus solely on this, to the detriment of everyone in the...
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The Drawbacks of a Nation of First-time CEOs
How many CEOs are first-time CEOs? I think it’s the majority (we found as high as 73%), and that’s a real problem. This is the subject of my newest article for Forbes: Why Virgin CEOs Are At A Distinct...
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Why CEOs Should Cultivate Paranoid Optimism
One of the interesting things about the CEO job is that almost every employee has a strong opinion about the CEO’s performance. They may not be able to tell you much about the VP of Sales or Marketing...
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Doing Less, Leading More
Reblogged from HBR Blog Network - Harvard Business Review: Our first accomplishments as professionals are usually rooted in our skill as individual contributors. In most fields we add value in the...
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How CEOs can set effective 2014 goals
I'll be hosting a live Webinar this Friday at 1:00 p.m. EST for ExecSense on "Best Practices for Establishing 2014 Goals for Your Management Team." The content is tailored to CEOs who want to start the...
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My top CEO book of the year: “The Art of Action”
Happy New Year to all! In the midst of people sharing their best business books of 2013, I wanted call out one I read this year that I think should be on every CEO’s reading list: “The Art of Action”...
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Top 10 posts of 2013
In case you missed them, here are my most-viewed blog posts of 2013: Support oddballs in your company culture Texas vs. California: Texas Wins CEOs: Employee engagement matters How executives hire:...
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CEO Fail: The “My Favorite Child” CEO
I have always tried to build relationships with CEOs of other companies to learn as much as possible from their experience. In my early days of being a CEO, I would go to many events around Austin to...
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2014 Issues for a 2016 Exit – Part 1
If you want an exit later, deal with critical issues now. Guest author Bob Barker is managing partner of 20/20 Outlook LLC. He acts as a trusted CEO advisor, helping convert a clear vision into...
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CEOs: Choosing to Do Nothing IS a Decision
Good decisions provide the fuel that drives an organization forward, which is why decision making is one of my five key CEO responsibilities. However, I often I see inexperienced CEOs stall their...
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Why Fruit Salad Management Is Rotten For CEOs
©Khorus 2013 My latest Forbes post focuses on this graphic we created at my company Khorus to show how CEOs are bombarded with mostly tactical, outdated metrics from department silos. The result is a...
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2014 Issues for a 2016 Exit – Part 2
In part 1 of this article, Bob covered three of the six issues he recommends you deal with now to accelerate your path to an exit: show credible numbers, acknowledge the intangibles, and recover from...
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The three roles of private company boards
In my last post, I wrote about some red flags when choosing board members for early stage companies. Understanding the function of private company boards will help CEOs select the right members as well...
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Employee engagement counts
OfficeVibe has created this infographic about employee engagement based on a bunch of stats that support what I've been saying on this blog for awhile: Employee engagement is low in general across U.S....
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How to set corporate goals in 2014
I’ve done a couple of Webinars recently to show CEOs and other executives how to set goals for their organizations. This is one of the keys to success in any company. The bigger your organization gets,...
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Why CEOs have power but lack influence
Entrepreneur.com just published an article I wrote titled “How Leaders Can Find Their Mojo.” Whether they admit it or not, many chief executives feel powerless in their organizations. Oh sure, they...
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Will an aluminum Ford F-150 make Alan Mulally the CEO of the decade?
Commercialization: Aluminum Body on Ford’s F150 2015 Ford F-150 Reveal; Photo Credit: Ford I follow the new car and truck market quite closely. It is a very competitive worldwide market that must...
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CEOs need a system
We officially launched my new company Khorus today. The software product is a business management system for CEOs to answer the one question that concerns every chief executive: “How likely is my...
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